Stories of Frisbee activities, including stories about people who could throw a Frisbee in different ways and could make fancy trick catches, circulated. In the AUDL, where referees are used, this option overrules calls made on the field by the referees and is used frequently during games. This could not be further from the truth. Frisbee shows were giving the public a glimpse of what would soon become known as disc sports. Renamed USA Ultimate in 2010. Ultimate relies upon a ‘Spirit of the Game’ that places the responsibility for fair play on every player. The IFA Newsletter helped to bring these groups together. The IFA and its newsletter helped the University of Michigan guys get in contact with the Humbly Guts team and to get involved with the IFT, where they met even more Frisbee players like John Connelly, Alan Blake, and Tom Cleworth of the Highland Avenue Aces guts team. This award represents a code of competitive conduct called “The Spirit of the Game.”. By the early 1970s, Dan Roddick included individual disc events at his Pennsylvania and New York State Frisbee Championships. 1978–Freestyle Players Association established with Dave Marini. At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, he won his only Olympic gold in the 100 m backstroke. Experimenting with ‘throw and catch’ freestyle, at the beginning of disc play in the 1950s-60s predates all of today’s popular modern disc sports. Basketball Canadian Basketball Arena—-image credit: Wikipedia/Chensiyuan. 1974–Jim Kenner and Ken Westerfield perform halftime Frisbee shows at university basketball games for several years as the Molson Frisbee Team. Home Page (this page): The History of Frisbee and Disc Sports Despite all the controversy, in the end Jamie and David came out on top! This is understandable, most experiences and pivot points in history are not known until the future, so the nuances of those moments can be lost. Guts Frisbee History, Note: This information was referenced and time-lined from disc sport historical and biographical articles including U.S. and Canadian Disc Sports Hall of Fame inductions, Disc Sports Player Federations and other historical resources. History of Disc Golf in Canada Ottawa's original football team was founded in 1876 and folded in 1996. O'Toole juggled work as a sports director in the morning and an evening news reporter for CTV Edmonton in 2002. Freestyle competitions and the touring freestyle performers in the 1970s was the beginning of showing people that the Frisbee was more than just a beach recreation. Timeline of Major Events in Disc Sports History, “In the history of early Frisbee events and the first disc sports, Canada and the U.S. share an events timeline on the same page.”.