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The History of the Frisbee
The Flying Disk toy that we call a Frisbee is said to have originiated
sometime between 1871 and 1958 from the empty pie tins of the Frisbie
Baking Company in Bridgeport Connecticut. College students would spend
countless hours tossing the empty pie tins back and forth after eating
the pies from the local bakery. In 1870 William Russel Frisbie came up
with a clever marketing idea for his bakery. He put the families name
in relief on the bottom of the reusable tin pie pans. This would allow
people to see the Frisbie Pie name everytime the pie pan was re-used
and hopefully increase return business to the bakery.
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Ultimate Frisbee:
Combining the non-stop movement and athletic endurance of soccer with
the aerial passing skills of football, a game of Ultimate is played by
two seven-player squads with a high-tech plastic disc on a field
similar to football.
The object of the game is to score by catching a pass in the opponent's
end zone. A player must stop running while in possession of the disc,
but may pivot and pass to any of the other receivers on the field.
Ultimate is a transition game in which players move quickly from
offense to defense on turnovers that occur with a dropped pass, an
interception, a pass out of bounds, or when a player is caught holding
the disc for more than ten seconds.
Ultimate is governed by Spirit of the Game™, a tradition of
sportsmanship that places the responsibility for fair play on the
players rather than referees. Ultimate is played in more than 42
countries by hundreds of thousands of men and women, girls and boys.
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