Here's a brief history for the game of Ultimate
Frisbee.
In 1967 Joel
Silver introduced his idea of Ultimate Frisbee to the
Columbia High School student council in Maplewood New
Jersey, USA. The next year, the first game was played
between two groups of students. They used a Wham-O Master
disc.
In 1969 a team
had been formed at the school and they played in a parking
lot. The only lines that existed were the goal lines,
usually marked by the piles of the players' coats.
The first and
second set of rules were written in 1970 by Joel Silver,
Buzzy Hellring and Jon Hines. On Nov 7th, CHS played the
first interscholastic game. They won over Millburn High
School by a score of 43 to 10.
The first
college ultimate game was played between Rutgers and
Princeton on November 6, 1972. Rutgers won the game 29-27.
The two universities had played the first intercollegiate
football game on the same ground exactly 103 years earlier.
Rutgers also won that game by 2.
The first
organised tournament was played on April 25th in 1975. Eight
teams took part in a tournament in Yale. Rutgers University
won the final against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with
28-24. In 1976 the Yale tournament was expanded and renamed
into the National Ultimate Frisbee Championship. Rutgers won
again.
Ultimate was
also in 1975 introduced into the World Frisbee
Championships.
In 1983, the
first true World Ultimate Championship was held in
Gothenburg, Sweden. Two club teams, representing USA, won
open and womens divisions. The European countries were
represented by national teams.
In 1989,
ultimate was shown as an exhibition sport during the World
Games in Karlsruhe, West Germany. This year also saw the
first World Club Ultimate Championship, in Cologne, West
Germany.
In 2001,
ultimate was included as a medal sport in the World Games in
Akita, Japan along with disc golf. Six countries were
invited ta compete based on their finishes in the WFDF 2000
World Ultimate Champioship in Germany. Canada won the World
Games gold medal with an overtime victory over the United
States.
Ultimate is now
played by an estimated 100,000 players in over 30 countries,
with the Ultimate Players Association in the US having over
13,000 members. The 2002 WUCC in Hawaii was the largest
ultlmate meet to date, with over 2300 players and 120 teams
from 24 countries participating.* * * * *
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