[Ads-l] Antedating of "Ultimate Frisbee"

Bill Mullins amcombill at HOTMAIL.COM
Wed Jan 19 19:12:41 UTC 2022


Note that the "Joel Silver" listed below went on to be a movie producer:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005428/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
(Die Hard, The Matrix, Lethal Weapon, etc.)

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1971 [copyright registration] 2 Sept.

COLUMBIA HIGH SCHOOL, MAPLEWOOD, N.J.
VARSITY FRISBEE TEAM.
Columbia High School, Maplewood,
New Jersey presents Ultimate
Frisbee official rules, 1971-1972.
8 p.   Appl.  authors:  Richard
Denburg & others.   © CHS Varsity
Frisbee Team  (Richard Denberg,
Irvin Kalb & Joel Silver);  2Sep71;
A286836.

Caution-https://archive.org/details/catalogofcop197132511l/page/2420/mode/1up?q=%22ultimate+frisbee%22



>  ultimate Frisbee (OED 1972)
>
>  1971 The Item of Millburn and Short Hills (Millburn, N.J.) 9 Dec. 11/3 (Newspapers.com)
>  Officially known as "Ultimate Frisbee," the game, played with a saucer-shaped plastic disc
>  about the size of a record album, was originated four years ago by students at Columbia
>  High School.
>
>  Fred Shapiro




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