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- 1920s
Yale students discover the fun of
throwing pie tins from the
Frisbie Baking Company of
Bridgeport, CT
- 1948
Fred Morrison, California
carpenter and building inspector,
manufactures the first plastic
flying disc.
- 1955
Rich Knerr and A.K.
"Spud" Melin invite
Morrison to join WHAM-O.
- 1957
WHAM-OŽ introduces the Pluto
Platter, a flying plastic disc.
- 1958
WHAM-O modifies its plastic
flying disc and trademarks the
name FRISBEE for its flying disc
First International FRISBEE
Tournament is held in Escanaba,
MI.
- Guts
is introduced as a sport.
1964 The Professional
model FRISBEE disc is introduced.
- 1967
The International FRISBEE
Association is founded.
- 1968
The U.S. Navy spends nearly
$400,000 to test FRISBEE discs as
vehicles for keeping flares
aloft.
- 1969
Ultimate, another FRISBEE disc
sport, is invented by Columbia
High School students in
Maplewood, NJ.
The first major Disc Golf
competition takes place at the
International FRISBEE Association
meet in Brookside Park, CA.
- 1973
The first intercollegiate
Ultimate game is played between
Rutgers University and Princeton
University.
Goldy Norton writes the first
book on FRISBEE called The
Official FRISBEE Handbook.
- 1974
Flying Disc World, a bi-monthly
magazine, is introduced.
The first all-dog flying disc
competition is held at California
State University, Fullerton.
The World FRISBEE Disc
Championships are held in the
Rose Bowl.
- 1975
Dr. Stancil Johnson reveals the
growth of a sport by writing
FRISBEE: A Practitioners Manual
& Definitive Treatise.
- 1978
The FRISBEE Disc Hall of Fame is
established in Houghton MI.
- 1979
Tom Kennedy wins a $50,000 disc
golf tournament in Huntington
Beach, CA.
- 1980
A Freestyle team called the
Coloradicals redefines Freestyle
and wins the World FRISBEE Disc
Championships in the Rose Bowl.
- 1981
The first Senior Championships,
exclusively for players over age
35 is held in Springfield, MO.
- 1982
The sport of Discathon is
introduced in Sacramento, CA.
- 1985
The first World Flying Disc
Congress is held in Helsingborg,
Sweden with representatives of 19
nations in attendance.
- 1986
Cub Scouts introduce an activity
badge for participation in
Ultimate.
- 1987
The General Association of
International Sports Federations
(GAISF) (www.gaisf.org) accepts
the World Flying Disc Federation
as a member.
- 1992
The Worlds Biggest Disc Golf
Competition features over 12,000
players participating on 200
courses around the world.
- 1993
The President's Council on
Physical Fitness and Sports
accepts flying disc sports as a
new category for the Presidential
Sports Award.
- 1994
Anni Kreml of San Francisco
breaks the women's distance
world record with a
throw of 136.31 meters (447.2
feet) on August 20 during the
1994 U.S. Open Flying Disc
Championships in Fort Collins,
CO.
- 1998
Scott Stokely of Fort Collins, CO
sets the men's distance
world record at
211.32 meters (693.3 feet).
- 1999
The World Flying Disc Federation
Overall Championships will be
held in Kalmar, Sweden from July
11-18.
- 2001
Flying disc sports become part of
the World Games in
Akita, Japan.
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