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Volleyball exists because someone said “what if we play but don’t touch each other.” Boundary sports.

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Volleyball was invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan in Massachusetts as a less strenuous alternative to basketball. The non-contact net design came from that aim, not from boundary concerns.

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