When was frisbee considered a sport

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The "anti-sport" has been questioned as a "real sport" since its inception, but with over 5. Marques Brownlee, a player on the Columbia High School Ultimate Frisbee team from , spoke to The Huffington Post on the increasing visibility of his sport in recent years. Between the club tournaments and pro leagues, there's way more high-level ultimate to watch for players just starting up today," he said. Brownlee, who's better known as the top tech reviewer on YouTube , most recently played at the professional level for the New York Rumble of Major League Ultimate.

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Go to Top. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The now-popular pastime of "tossing the disc" remained in obscurity until the invention of a plastic flying disc by Fred Morrison in , which was much more durable and flight-worthy than anything made of wood or metal.

This invention led to the first mass-produced disc, called the "Pluto Platter," made by the Wham-O toy company beginning in The year saw the first recorded competition using a flying disc when Dartmouth University USA students organized a tournament for the disc sport known as "Guts. This trademark was reportedly the result of the predictable nickname that students at Yale and Harvard had given to the new toys. The invention of Ultimate, also known as "Ultimate Frisbee," occurred within a year of the first mechanical patent on a flying disc, by Ed Headrick in Joel Silver and others at Columbia High School CHS , Maplewood, NJ, USA, introduced their idea of an "ultimate" Frisbee game to the student council in , and the first known game was played in between the student council and the staff of the school newspaper.

The newspaper staff was victorious in a game where the only boundaries were the goal lines and other natural side boundaries eg. The games continued the following year, with matches being played in the evening under the glow of the mercury-vapor lights in the school's new parking lot. The first conference of Ultimate teams was created in , which consisted of five New Jersey high schools, including CHS and Milburn.

Some ultimate-playing graduates of the league formed teams at their respective colleges and universities. The same team won by the same margin of victory.