![]() ![]() In recent years college ultimate has attracted a greater number of traditional athletes, raising the level of competition and athleticism, and providing a challenge to its laid back, free-spirited roots. The popularity of the game quickly spread, taking hold as a free-spirited alternative to traditional organized sports. The first intercollegiate competition was held between Rutgers and Princeton on November 6, 1972, the 103rd anniversary of the first intercollegiate football game, and at the same site on the Rutgers New Brunswick campus. ![]() (A foul was defined as contact "sufficient to arouse the ire of the player fouled.") Gentlemanly behavior and gracefulness was held high. While the rules governing movement and scoring of the disc have not changed, the early Columbia High games had sidelines that were defined by the parking lot of the school, team sizes based on the number of players that showed up, and no referees. The students who played at Columbia High School were not the athletes of the school, but an eclectic group of students that represented leaders in academics, student politics, the student newspaper, and school dramatic productions. The name "ultimate" comes directly from Jared Kass, who came up with the name, when asked by a camper, on the whim that it was the ultimate sport. Kass created the game with a group of friends in college. The camp counseler who taught him the game was named Jared Kass. Silver, now a Hollywood film producer ( 48 Hours, Weird Science, Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, The Matrix), first played Frisbee Football at a camp in Mount Hermon, Massachusetts in the summer of 1967. The following spring a group of students got together to play what Silver claimed to be the "ultimate sports experience," adapting the game Frisbee Football. Joel Silver proposed a school Frisbee team on a whim in the fall of 1967. Teenagers from Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey were the first to play the game of Ultimate initially as an evening pastime, from which it evolved into a kind of counter-culture joke in 1968. ![]()
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