Important 

Events in Ultimate’s History

<1940 – 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.

1948 – 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.

1951 – The first mass-produced disc toy, called the Pluto Platter, was sold.

1957 – Frisbie Pie’s closed down. Yale students nicknamed the infamous pie-tins Frisbies, which caught
on enough for Whamo to change the name of the toy to “Frisbee.”

1968 – In Maplewood, New Jersey at Columbia High School Joel Silver and a few other students first
introduced a Frisbee-based game to the student council.

1969 – The first team had been formed. They practiced in the high school parking lot.

1970 – Joel Silver, Buzzy Hellring, and Jon Hines created the 1st edition rules. The first interscholastic
game took place between Columbia High and Millburn High. Columbia won 43 – 10

1972 – 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.

1975 – First organized tournament took place. Eight teams attended at Yale University. Rutgers won yet
again.

1979 – Ultimate Players Association (UPA) was founded, now called USA Ultimate.

1983 – The First World Ultimate Championship which was located in Gothenburg, Sweden.

1984 – The World Flying Disc Federation was founded, the international governing body for all disc sports.

1989 – Ultimate was shown as an exhibition sport during the world games in Akita, Japan.

2001 – Ultimate is officially a medal sport in the world games in Japan.

2012 – Over 100,000 players across the globe.

Present – 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 a 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.