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Ultimate Frisbee

By kkevin03

  • Walter Frederick Morrison

    Walter Frederick Morrison
    Walter Frederick Morrison and his partner Warren Franscioni invented a plastic version of the Frisbie in Los Angeles. Their version could fly further and with better precision than the pie tins. Walter died at the age of 90 in 2010.
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  • Pluto Platter

    Pluto Platter
    Morrison separated with Franscioni and he created a plastic Frisbie called the Pluto Platter. His version of the frisbee became the basic design for all frisbees. Fun fact: The Pluto Platter contributed to the growth of U.F.O.s, *Exact year but not date

  • Frisbie Baking Company

    Frisbie Baking Company
    Frisbie Baking Company (1871-1958), was a company of Bridgeport, Connecticut. They made pies to many New England colleges. College students discovered that the empty pie tins could be thrown and caught.
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  • Joel Silver

    Joel Silver
    Joel Silver a student at Columbia High School introduced an idea for a game to the student council (Columbia High is in Maplewood, New Jersey). *Exact year but not date

  • First Ultimate Frisbee Game

    First Ultimate Frisbee Game
    In 1969 a team was formed in the school, they played in the parking lot. The newspaper team and student council and Joel Silver's friends made up the teams. (The only lines were the goal lines. Marked by telephone poles or the players’ coats).
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  • First Championships

    First Championships
    The National Collegiate Championships was the first organized tournament, played on April 25th, 1972. Eight teams participated, located at Yale. Rutgers won the final game against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (score was 28-24)
    *Exact date and year The National Collegiate Championships was expanded and renamed to the National Ultimate Frisbee Championship. Rutgers won again

  • First College Game

    First College Game
    Rutgers and Princeton played the first college ultimate game (Rutgers won, 29-27). The two colleges had also played the first intercollegiate football game on the same field exactly 103 years earlier and Rutgers won that game also by two points
    *Exact date and year

  • World Championships

    World Championships
    First World Ultimate Championship was in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1983. Two US club teams participated with other European teams
    *Exact year but not date