The+History+of+Ultimate

The History of Ultimate =Origin =

= Joel Silver was a student at Columbia High School in New jersey. Silver had recently learned how to play Ultimate from Jared Kass while attending a summer camp the year before. He came up with the name of Ultimate Frisbee, although now renamed to ultimate because frisbee is a registered trademark to the Wham-o toy company, and just had to propose a school ultimate team to the student council. A year later the first High School game among students was played. A couple years later the first collegiate game took place between Rutgers and Princeton. Although the rules made up by Kass and Silver are disputed the sport has grown a tremendous amount since it came to be. =



= Origin =

=The first national exposure to ultimate was when a group from Boston came to the annual international Frisbee tournament in Houghton, Michigan calling themselves the Nat Love Nine. The Nat Love Nine brought forth a different game, a game they had learned at Antioch College that they called Frisbee Football, later renamed to Ultimate Frisbee. This normally wouldn't give the public a taste of ultimate, but when Sports Illustrated got a hold of the story it showed some of the US what Frisbee Football was.= = = = How Ultimate has Changed = = = = The Frisbie Pie Company was past down through generations of the Frisbie family. The company grew and grew and during one generation a widowed Marion Rose Frisbie made up to 80,000 pies a day! This translates into one of the earliest Frisbee. This company offered a variety of goodies and pastries, which holds the roots of the Frisbee controversy. There are two schools that claim to have had the idea for Frisbee, the pie tin school and the cookie tin school. The pie tin school says that they bought many of the Frisbie pie tins and threw them around campus. The cookie tin school said that they had come up with the idea and had taken the lids off of the tin cookie bins. Either way they both came up with an idea for a Frisbee. The discs have definitely changed through time, starting with pie or cookie tins then moving to Wham-o frisbees and then elevating to Discraft discs as the official disc for USA ultimate.=

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