Further Antedating of "Frisbee"

[Laurence Horn]

On Apr 21, 2013, at 3:38 PM, W Brewer wrote:

> Never mind, I remember now.
>
Right.  It would have helped if the reference had been to the bunny *hop* craze.  Sort of like using "hula fad" to reference hula hoops.

LH
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> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:09 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> <<<bunny craze of '52>>>???  Don't leave us hanging!
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>> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:00 AM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>wrote:
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>>> Subject:      Further Antedating of "Frisbee"
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>>> frisbee (OED 1957)
>>>
>>> 1954 _The Gold Bug_ (Western Maryland College student newspaper,
>>> available =
>>> at http://hoover.mcdaniel.edu/archives/Newspapers/TheGoldBug1954-55.pdf)
>>> 9 =
>>> Nov. 3/2  WMC sports enthusiasts are always turning up with something
>>> new. =
>>> But this time they've outdone themselves.  They've come up with a new
>>> type=
>>> of game called Frisby.  Supposedly the greatest event to hit the campus
>>> si=
>>> nce the bunny craze of '52, Frisby is not as new as it appears but is in
>>> re=
>>> ality a comer from Merry Old England.  ... Just how Frisby found its way
>>> to=
>>> the Hill is a mystery, but rumors have it that a certain freshman in
>>> Alber=
>>> t Norman Ward is responsible. ... For the information of Johns Hopkins,
>>> Har=
>>> vard, Yale, Princeton and other ancient schools, we are the first and
>>> only =
>>> college in the U.S. to play this game. ...Waiters in the dinning [sic]
>>> hall=
>>> have started a frisby [sic] tournament.
>>>
>>> Fred Shapiro
>>> Editor
>>> YALE BOOK OF QUOTATIONS (Yale University Press)
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