Ten orange
plastic cones
EQUIPMENT
Frisbee
Pinnues
Outdoor version:
7 players are allowed on
the field at any one time
At least 3 females on the
pitch at all times.
A team can play a legal
game with 6 players, with 2
females.
Teams may have as many
players in their squad as
they want.
Indoor version:
6 players are allowed on
the court at any one time
At least 2 females on the
court at all times.
A team can play a legal
game with 5 players, with 1
female.
Teams may have as many
players in their squad as
they want.
Ultimate Frisbee Timeline
Frisbie Pie Company sold
pies to neighboring Yale
students.
The students threw the pie
tins to each other for fun
because they actually flew
pretty well.ubtopic
Fred Morrison researched
how to make a flat object
fly straighter and further,
and thus the first patent for
a flying disc toy was born.
The first mass-produced
disc toy, called the Pluto
Platter, was sold.
The first team had been
formed. They practiced on
the high schools parking
lot.
First intercollegiate game
between Rutgers and
Princeton, located at
Rutgers University. Exactly
103 years earlier the two
teams battled it out on the
same site in the first
American Football game.
Rutgers won in both sports
by a margin of two points.
Present
A game is played in two, 18
minute halves separated
by a short half time. The
referee maintains a running
clock throughout each half.
The clock will only be
Ultimate has a simple goal:
1940 stopped for injuries.
get your disc into the other
team's end zone. The game
is played on a field 110
meters (360 feet) long - the
length of a football field.
The end zones are made
1948 up of the 23 meters closest
to each side.
1951
A dropped “Pull” is a turnover and results in a
Yale students nicknamed
change of possession. If the “Pull” goes out of
the infamous pie-tins
Frisbie Pie’s closed Frisbies, which caught on bounds, play begins from where the frisbee went
1957 out (similar to a throw-in in football). If the “Pull” rolls
down. enough for Whamo to
change the name of the out the back or side of the “End Zone”, play
resumes from the nearest point on the front line of
toy to “Frisbee.”
the “End Zone” to where the disc went out.
In Maplewood, New Jersey
at Columbia High School A point is scored by catching the frisbee in the “End
Rules
Joel Silver and few other Zone” your team is attacking.Teams change ends
1968
students first introduced a after every score and play is restarted with a “Pull”
Frisbee-based game to the when everyone is lined up within their defending
“End Zone”.
student council.
The pitch is broken up in to 3 areas. At each end is the
scoring area known as the
“End Zone”. In between the “End Zones” is the main
1969
playing area.
The first interscholastic
Joel Silver, Buzzy Hellring, game took place between
1970 and Jon Hines created the Columbia High and
1st edition rules. Millburn High. Columbia
won 43 – 10
1972
First organized tournament took place. Eight teams attended at
1975
Yale University. Rutgers won yet again.
Ultimate Players Association (UPA) was founded, now called USA
1979
Ultimate.
Ultimate Players Association (UPA) was founded, now called USA
2001
Ultimate.
Almost every college has some presence of Ultimate Frisbee, whether it
be an official team, club, or people that just meet up to play. Local
town leagues are popping up everywhere and many high schools are
starting to add Ultimate into their athletic programs. Ultimate Related
companies are on the rise attempting to earn market share in the
rapidly expanding market. Who knows where Ultimate will be in
another 80 years. Just respect the spirit of the game and never stop
playing, the rest is history.