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The History of Czechoslovak volleyball till 1945
LIŠKA, Jaroslav
The thesis is focused on history of volley-ball in period between Worlds war in Czechoslovakia. Volley-ball has arisen due to William G. Morgan in USA in 1895. This new play had quickly obtain a popularity and had expanded from USA to other countries of the World. To Czechoslovakia the volley-ball got in 1919, thanks to organization YMCA. In this thesis we´ll make out how volley-ball was expanded via courses of army and sport activities on universities. On expanding and popularization of volley-ball had a big credit officials in that period, especially Josef Amos Pipal, Josef František Machotka, J. W. Younger, Bohučest Škarda, František Miroslav Marek or Lewis William Reiss. In Czechoslovakia between worlds wars the volley-ball was used by many organizations, for example YMCA, YWCA, ČOS, DTJ, RTJ or FPT. A big role for development of volley-ball in Czechoslovakia played the tramp´s camps too. The popularity of volley-ball in period 1920s and 1930s had still grown. His development was not stopped neither during the 2nd World War which only slowed down this development and deprived of many good players.

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