[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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