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Massachusetts. Jared Kass a student of Amherst brought the game to a summer camp at Northfield Mount Hermon School. Joel Silver was attending this summer camp in 1968 when he then took the game back to his high school. He introduced his idea of Ultimate Frisbee to the Columbia High School student council in Maplewood, New Jersey. He and his peers refined the game, created the basic rules and started the first Ultimate team. The next year the game was played for the first time by students from the newspaper

According to the USA Ultimate (n.d.), “Ultimate is governed by Spirit of the Game, a tradition of sportsmanship that places the responsibility for fair play on the players rather than referees.” Spirit of the Game refers to the players’ honesty, sportsmanship, and adherence to the rules and regulations of Ultimate Frisbee. It is one of few sports in the world where the players themselves are their

own. Unique aspects of the game created by the students such as the use of a discus and the heavy amount of self-officiating even up the world game levels helped to expand and differentiate the sport into one that is accessible, new, and exciting. The

The culture of Ultimate is definitely tied to SOTG. In recent years, the increased use of Observers in Ultimate games has challenged the traditional understanding of self-officiating, causing players to negotiate between the original life of self-officiating and the quasi third-party officiating introduced through Observer presence. This is an exploratory study which

Leonardo and Zaragoza (2005) chronicles the history of Ultimate Frisbee (Ultimate) which feature key moments shaping the sport in the modern era. Using their research, I will focus on the principle of self-refereeing known as “Spirit of the Game” (SOTG) to players and fans of Ultimate. This is an alternative to traditional sports which feature referees officiating matches. As the competitive level and popularity of Ultimate increases, I will examine whether self-refereeing still has a role to play

football. Just like football, the goal of the game is ultimately to pass the frisbee to someone in the endzone to score a point. However unlike football and more like soccer, the game is played continuously without stoppage until someone scores. What is unique to frisbee is that when a player possesses the frisbee, they are not allowed to move. They must keep on foot planted until they throw the frisbee to a teammate. After a team score the will pull the disc to the other team at the opposite the one

information related to scoring, venue, schedule and the history of ultimate frisbee to add it to the Olympics. Ultimate Frisbee is a sport that is very fun. Ultimate frisbee is a game of two teams. The men’s teams have seven people on each team, the women’s teams have five people on each team. In ultimate frisbee the object of the game is to score, you score by throwing the frisbee into the other team's end zone. The only way to

Playing ultimate frisbee throughout the world, I have made lifelong friendships with countless people. Some of these individuals that I am proud to call my best friends being Mormons, those in the LGBT+ community, and people from numerous different cultural backgrounds, it warms my heart whenever I recall these amazing athletes. The ultimate community is exceptionally dear to me and my family, they welcome with open arms anybody who wishes to play, regardless of their background. This quality is

throwing. Its also a very active sport that keeps you constantly moving, thinking and guessing. Probably the greatest part is that its played with a frisbee. Frisbees can curve, roll, flip, turn, they can go out over the crowd and then back into the game without touching anything plus there are so many different ways to throw them that you keep the defense constantly guessing. Then there are the highlights of ultimate the jumps, leaps, flips, dive rolls and and sprints that leave the fans in awe. People

throughout the United States, playing Ultimate takes a lot more skill than some may think. In Ultimate Frisbee there is a lot of running and strategic skills that go along with the sport. Ultimate Frisbee is a sport that not many people know of, it is a game of agility and awareness. I would inform you about the complexity that goes into this sport, but I value your time. My love for Ultimate started last year after I joined my High School team. Before Ultimate I played Softball for my High School, Eagan