Further Antedating of "Frisbee"

[W Brewer]

<<<bunny craze of '52>>>???  Don't leave us hanging!


On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:00 AM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>wrote:

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> frisbee (OED 1957)
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> 1954 _The Gold Bug_ (Western Maryland College student newspaper, available
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> at http://hoover.mcdaniel.edu/archives/Newspapers/TheGoldBug1954-55.pdf)
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> Nov. 3/2  WMC sports enthusiasts are always turning up with something new.
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>  But this time they've outdone themselves.  They've come up with a new
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>  of game called Frisby.  Supposedly the greatest event to hit the campus
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> nce the bunny craze of '52, Frisby is not as new as it appears but is in
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> ality a comer from Merry Old England.  ... Just how Frisby found its way
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>  the Hill is a mystery, but rumors have it that a certain freshman in
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> t Norman Ward is responsible. ... For the information of Johns Hopkins,
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> vard, Yale, Princeton and other ancient schools, we are the first and only
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> college in the U.S. to play this game. ...Waiters in the dinning [sic]
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>  have started a frisby [sic] tournament.
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> Fred Shapiro
> Editor
> YALE BOOK OF QUOTATIONS (Yale University Press)
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