This document provides information about frisbee and ultimate frisbee, including what is needed to play, different throws, movement and scoring rules. It discusses the history of the frisbee originating from pie tins discarded from the Frisbie Pie Company in Connecticut in the 1870s. Students at Yale reportedly began tossing the pie tins on campus for fun. The document also outlines the basic rules of pulling to start play, how scoring occurs when catching in the end zone, and that play resumes with the scoring team pulling again.

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2. FRISBEE
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3. WHAT YOU NEED
Disc
Shoes
Water
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4. DIFFERENT KINDS OF THROWS
- Forehand
- Backhand
- Hammer
- Scoober
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5. MOVEMENT OF THE ULTIMATE DISC
- The disc may be moved in any direction by completing a pass to a
teammate. After catching a pass, a player is required to come to a stop
as quickly as possible, and then can only move their non-pivot foot. A
common misconception is that a player must setup a pivot foot before
they can throw the disc. In fact, the player can throw the disc before
stopping within the first couple of steps after they gain possession of the
disc. It is this fact that makes the "Greatest" rule possible. A "Greatest"
occurs when a player jumps from within bounds to catch a disc that has
passed out-of-bounds, this is also known as an "ultimate play". The
player must then throw the disc back in-bounds before his feet or any
other part of his body touches the ground. The thrower may only catch
their own throw if another player touches it in the air.
Upon receiving the disc, a player has ten seconds to pass it. This period is
known as the "stall", and each second is counted out (astall count) by a
defender (the marker), who must be standing within three meters of the
thrower. A player may keep the disc for longer than ten seconds if no
marker is within three meters, or if the marker is not counting the stall; if
there is a change of marker, the new marker must restart the stall from
zero.
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6. HISTORY
In 1871, in the wake of the Civil War, William Russell Frisbie moved from Bransford,
Connecticut, where his father, Russell, had operated a successful grist mill, to Bridgeport,
Connecticut. Hired to manage a new bakery, a branch of the Olds Baking Company of New
Haven, he soon bought it outright and named it the Frisbie Pie Company (363 Kossuth
Street). W.R. died in 1903 and his son, Joseph P., manned the ovens until his death in 1940.
Under his direction the small company grew from six to two hundred and fifty routes, and
shops were opened in Hartford, Connecticut; Poughkeepsie, New York; and Providence,
Rhode Island. His widow, Marian Rose Frisbie, and long-time plant manager, Joseph J.
Vaughn, baked on until August 1958 and reached a zenith production of 80,000 pies per
day in 1956.
In this otherwise simple baking operation we find the origin of the earliest Frisbee! Now the
company offered a variety of bakery goodies, including pies and cookies, and therein
resides the roots of the controversy. For there are two crusty schools concerning Frisbee's
origins: the Pie-Tin School and the Cookie- Tin School, each camp holding devoutly to its
own argument.
The Pie-Tin School. The pie-tin people claim Yale students bought Frisbie's pies (undoubtedly a
treat in themselves) and tossed the prototype all over Eli's campus. These early throwers
would exclaim "Frisbie" to signal the catcher. And well they might, for a tin Frisbee is
something else again to catch.
The Cookie-Tin School. Now the cookie tin people agree on these details save one: they insist
that the true, original prototype was the cookie-tin lid that held in the goodness of Frisbie's
sugar cookies.
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7. RULES
Pull
- To begin play the ultimate players from each team line up on their end
zones, and the defense team pulls (throws) the disc to the other team as
a "kick-off". Pulls are long throws, and they are thrown in efforts of
giving the offensive team poor field position and a chance for the
defense to get down the field soon enough to stop advances.
The pull is often started by a member of the defending team raising one
arm with the disc to show that they are ready to pull the disc and begin
play. The team that pulls to start the game is usually decided in a
manner similar to a coin toss. Instead of using a coin often an ultimate
frisbee disc is used.
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8. SCORING
- A point is scored when a player catches a pass in the end zone his team is
attacking. In older versions of the rules, only offensive players could
score. However, current UPA and WFDF rules allow a defensive team to
score by intercepting a pass in the end zone they are defending. This
play is referred to as a Callahan goal or simply a Callahan. It is named
after well-known ultimate player Henry Callahan.
After a point is scored, the teams exchange ends. The team who just
scored remains in that end zone, and the opposing team takes the
opposite end zone. This can be commonly referred to in the phrase:
"Losers walk." Play is re-initiated with a pull by the scoring team.
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9. SAMPLE GAME
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10. THE
END!
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