Columbia University Ultimate Frisbee Team - Revision history

Skanelaw at 20:00, 1 February 2025

2025-02-01T20:00:38Z

Skanelaw: Added history of women's first game in 1981

2023-07-03T21:45:19Z

Added history of women's first game in 1981

Skanelaw: Confirmed 1973 Founding Date for men's team

2023-07-03T21:14:48Z

Confirmed 1973 Founding Date for men's team

Gutenwod at 20:06, 14 September 2020

2020-09-14T20:06:18Z

Reece: /* Spring 1977 */

2018-10-15T21:29:39Z

‎Spring 1977

Reece: /* Spring 1977 */

2018-10-15T21:28:22Z

‎Spring 1977

Skanelaw: correct typos

2014-08-05T21:59:28Z

correct typos

Skanelaw: Changed founding to 1973, based on Ultimate: The First Four Decades

2014-08-05T21:58:46Z

Changed founding to 1973, based on Ultimate: The First Four Decades

Admin at 19:48, 30 November 2013

2013-11-30T19:48:55Z

Admin: moved Ultimate Frisbee to Columbia University Ultimate Frisbee Team

2013-11-30T19:47:52Z

moved Ultimate Frisbee to Columbia University Ultimate Frisbee Team

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 ** In the fall of 1977, Steve Kane & Jerry McManus were the co-captains.
 ** Despite the loss of Buddha & Bloeme, the team continues to play well, but loses its 2 games to programs with "established" players with long Ultimate bloodlines (Princeton with Bob Evans from Columbia High School, and UConn with Dan Buckley & others from Staples High School).  In contrast, Columbia has a bunch of unknown players, including new teammates  Maurice Matiz (track refugee) and freshmen Ernie Cicconi, the pride of Hasbrouck Heights, and Paul Tvetenstrand.  and others Frank Busanic (Astoria ringer).
 ** The team shirt changes to a blue shirt with white lettering "Columbia Ultimate" above an actual replica of a 165G disc on it (which disc is signed by former Columbia player & then World Frisbee Champion, Peter Bloeme). It was also one of the few Ultimate team shirts to have numbers on the back. This shirt remains the team uniform through at least 1984.
 ** Practices for 1977 and for several years thereafter are Tuesday & Thursday nights on South Field (which is in a dust-bowl like state).  On Thursday nights, practices are watched by the "pre-Pub" crowd.  The drinking age was 18 and there was a Pub in the basement of John Jay Hall that served beer and Thursday night was the most popular Pub night at John Jay).

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	== Women's and Gender Diverse Team ==		== Women's and Gender Diverse Team ==
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		+	History - Spectator April 8, 1981 page 3 reports the Women's Ultimate team beat SUNY Purchase on Monday April 6, 1981, 20-6 and the team had just been formed. Ken Gary was the coach. No players were named.
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	This team (formerly known as the Women's team) (formerly named Pandemic) is undergoing a name change in 2020 for obvious reasons.		This team (formerly known as the Women's team) (formerly named Pandemic) is undergoing a name change in 2020 for obvious reasons.

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 = History =
-== 1974 ==
+== 1973 ==
-* The Columbia University Ultimate Frisbee Team was founded by [[David "Buddha" Meyer]] in the fall of [[1973]].  Buddha was a graduate of Columbia High School in Orange, [[New Jersey]], where the game of Ultimate originated in [[1968]].  Many of Buddha's high school classmates had founded or were running other college teams on the East Coast, including Bob Evans at [[Princeton]], Dave Leiwant at [[Yale]] and Jon (JC) Cohn at [[Cornell]]. See the book "Ultimate:  The First Four Decades" for evidence of Columbia, Yale and Cornell Ultimate teams all being founded in 1973.  The team's first shirt was a copy of the Columbia High School shirt stating Columbia Ultimate Frisbee in Columbia blue above concentric circles (supposed to be a Frisbee) on a white shirt.  In contrast, the Columbia High School shirt had black lettering and said C.H.S. Varsity Frisbee.  The sport at this time used a Master Frisbee (165Gs had not yet been invented), and the field was 60 yards long with 30 yard end zones.  Games were usually two 24 minute halves, with time stopped after goals and for out-of bounds.  The stalling count was 15 seconds.
+* The Columbia University Ultimate Frisbee Team was founded by [[David "Buddha" Meyer]] in the fall of [[1973]].  Buddha was a graduate of Columbia High School in Orange, [[New Jersey]], where the game of Ultimate originated in [[1968]].  Many of Buddha's high school classmates had founded or were running other college teams on the East Coast, including Bob Evans at [[Princeton]], Dave Leiwant at [[Yale]] and Jon (JC) Cohn at [[Cornell]]. See the book "Ultimate:  The First Four Decades" for evidence of Columbia, Yale and Cornell Ultimate teams all being founded in 1973. In a July 3, 2023 email to Steve Kane, Jon Cohn confirmed the 1973 founding: "... Buddha was in the same CHS [Columbia High School] class as myself and David. The three of us certainly founded the teams at Cornell, Columbia, and Yale during our freshman year, which was the '73-'74 academic year.
 [[Image:Buddha_dos_domts_f_76_001.pdf|Buddha Humor;Fall 1976]]

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-'''Ultimate Frisbee''', sometimes abbreviated '''Ultimate''', is an intercollegiate [[Club sports|club sport]], represented at our fair university by the '''Columbia University Ultimate Frisbee Team'''.  The sport is unique in that it has no referees and one of the founding principals is [http://www.upa.org/spirit the "spirit of the game"] requires a special level of sportsmanship (or sportspersonship). Columbia fields both a men's team, [[Uptown Local]], and a [[Ultimate Frisbee (women's)|women's team, NYPD]]. This page discusses the history of the sport's early years at Columbia. For current information about the teams visit their club sports pages.
+'''Ultimate Frisbee''', sometimes abbreviated '''Ultimate''', is an intercollegiate [[Club sports|club sport]], represented at our fair university by the '''Columbia University Ultimate Frisbee Team'''.  The sport is unique in that it has no referees and one of the founding principals is [http://www.upa.org/spirit the "spirit of the game"] requires a special level of sportsmanship (or sportspersonship). Columbia fields both a men's team, [[Uptown Local]], and a [[Ultimate Frisbee (women's and gender diverse) team]]. This page discusses the history of the sport's early years at Columbia. For current information about the teams visit their club sports pages.
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 Website - http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ultimate/ OR http://www.uploultimate.com/
-== Women's Team ==
+== Women's and Gender Diverse Team ==
-Find out about the women's team [[Ultimate Frisbee (women's)|NYPD]].
+This team (formerly known as the Women's team) (formerly named Pandemic) is undergoing a name change in 2020 for obvious reasons.
 = History =

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 === Spring 1977 ===
 * For the spring [[1977]] season, Budddha recruits not only Rutgers transfer Mark Silverschotz, but also John Anthony, a Columbia graduate student and free-style partner of free styler Krae van Sickel; [http://www.amazon.com/Frisbee-Dogs-Throwing-Peter-Bloeme/dp/0962934631 Peter Bloeme], the then reigning Frisbee World Champion (his signature is on the 165G series if discs) and a graduate of Bronx High School of Science; and Mark Danna, a well known "free-styler" living in NYC (and also the author of [http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0915516195/ref=sr_1_olp_1/102-4404152-1584922?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1184427550&sr=8-1 "Frisbee Players Handbook", which was a round book sold in a disc)] to join the Columbia squad.
-** The team discovered its potential in its second game of the season when Buddha taught the team how to play a zone on the subway ride up to [[Baker Field]] & the team narrowly lost 25-24 to Cornell, one of the top teams in the country (Cornell had [http://www.upa.org/hof/inductees#cohn Jon "JC" Cohn] and [http://www.upa.org/hof/inductees#herrick Jim Herrick], both of whom are in the Ultimate Hall of Fame, as well as Dan Weiss and Paul Brenner).
+** The team discovered its potential in its second game of the season when Buddha taught the team how to play a zone on the subway ride up to [[Baker Field]] & the team narrowly lost 25-24 to Cornell, one of the top teams in the country. The Cornell team had [http://www.upa.org/hof/inductees#cohn Jon "JC" Cohn] and [http://www.upa.org/hof/inductees#herrick Jim Herrick], Dan Weiss and Paul Brenner all of whom are in the Ultimate Hall of Fame.
 ** That season's Columbia team consisted of several "athletes" (certainly athletes by Ultimate's then standard of "athletic"), including refugees from Columbia's other sports programs, including Jerry McManus (baseball) and Bob Jarrett and Michael Forlenza (lightweight football), Steve Kane, a self-acknowledged, but nonetheless excellent, goal hanger, running around to get open for Buddha, Bloeme, John Anthony & Ken Gary to throw to.  Buddha had the world's finest wrist-flip airbounce (not a typo) and Bloeme, as reigning Frisbee World Champion, had pinpoint accuracy & amazing distance.  It wasn't until several years later that [http://www.amazon.com/Frisbee-Dogs-Throwing-Peter-Bloeme/dp/0962934631 Peter Bloeme] realized that others could run around and catch discs better than Kane, Jarrett and McManus; so Bloeme switched sports from Ultimate to become a trainer and showman for frisbee-catching dogs.
 ** A typical play would have a Bloeme throw-off that pinned the other team in the corner by their goal line (this was before the "brick" rule); Columbia would then apply its zone (often a "force side") and upon a turnover Columbia would score, often with Buddha throwing an air-bounce wrist flip (that is not a typo) to someone in the end zone.

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 == 1974 ==
-* The Columbia University Ultimate Frisbee Team was founded by [[David "Buddha" Meyer]] in the fall of [[1974]].  Buddha was a graduate of Columbia High School in Orange, [[New Jersey]], where the game of Ultimate originated in [[1968]].  Many of Buddha's high school classmates had founded or were running other college teams on the East Coast, including Bob Evans at [[Princeton]], Dave Leiwant at [[Yale]] and Jon (JC) Cohn at [[Cornell]]. The team's first shirt was a copy of the Columbia High School shirt stating Columbia Ultimate Frisbee in Columbia blue above concentric circles (supposed to be a Frisbee) on a white shirt.  In contrast, the Columbia High School shirt had black lettering and said C.H.S. Varsity Frisbee.  The sport at this time used a Master Frisbee (165Gs had not yet been invented), and the field was 60 yards long with 30 yard end zones.  Games were usually two 24 minute halves, with time stopped after goals and for out-of bounds.  The stalling count was 15 seconds.
+* The Columbia University Ultimate Frisbee Team was founded by [[David "Buddha" Meyer]] in the fall of [[1973]].  Buddha was a graduate of Columbia High School in Orange, [[New Jersey]], where the game of Ultimate originated in [[1968]].  Many of Buddha's high school classmates had founded or were running other college teams on the East Coast, including Bob Evans at [[Princeton]], Dave Leiwant at [[Yale]] and Jon (JC) Cohn at [[Cornell]]. See the book "Ultimate:  The First Four Decades" for evdience of Colaumbia, Yale and Cornell Ultimate teams all being founded in 1973.  The team's first shirt was a copy of the Columbia High School shirt stating Columbia Ultimate Frisbee in Columbia blue above concentric circles (supposed to be a Frisbee) on a white shirt.  In contrast, the Columbia High School shirt had black lettering and said C.H.S. Varsity Frisbee.  The sport at this time used a Master Frisbee (165Gs had not yet been invented), and the field was 60 yards long with 30 yard end zones.  Games were usually two 24 minute halves, with time stopped after goals and for out-of bounds.  The stalling count was 15 seconds.
 [[Image:Buddha_dos_domts_f_76_001.pdf|Buddha Humor;Fall 1976]]

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	'''Ultimate Frisbee''', sometimes abbreviated '''Ultimate''', is an intercollegiate [[Club sports\|club sport]], represented at our fair university by the '''Columbia University Ultimate Frisbee Team'''. The sport is unique in that it has no referees and one of the founding principals is [http://www.upa.org/spirit the "spirit of the game"] requires a special level of sportsmanship (or sportspersonship). Columbia fields both a men's team, [[Uptown Local]], and a [[Ultimate Frisbee (women's)\|women's team, NYPD]]. This page discusses the history of the sport's early years at Columbia. For current information about the teams visit their club sports pages.		'''Ultimate Frisbee''', sometimes abbreviated '''Ultimate''', is an intercollegiate [[Club sports\|club sport]], represented at our fair university by the '''Columbia University Ultimate Frisbee Team'''. The sport is unique in that it has no referees and one of the founding principals is [http://www.upa.org/spirit the "spirit of the game"] requires a special level of sportsmanship (or sportspersonship). Columbia fields both a men's team, [[Uptown Local]], and a [[Ultimate Frisbee (women's)\|women's team, NYPD]]. This page discusses the history of the sport's early years at Columbia. For current information about the teams visit their club sports pages.
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		+	== Men's team ==
		+	You can find out lots more about UPLO, how to join, and how our season is going all over the internet.
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		+	Find us on:
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		+	Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/CU.uplo
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		+	Twitter - @CU_UPLO
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		+	Website - http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ultimate/ OR http://www.uploultimate.com/
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		+	== Women's Team ==
		+	Find out about the women's team [[Ultimate Frisbee (women's)\|NYPD]].

	= History =		= History =

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