Ultimate is an easy sport to catch onto and it seemed to have a natural flow of football, soccer and basketball. But despite the lack of experience, footwear and uniform we played well. I am not sure any of us had a pair of cleats, and some may have played in sneakers and street clothes. It was the first game of Ultimate that any of us played. We played on a large field near the athletic center. In 1974 the first ultimate foundation is founded in Sweden, and in 1975 was founded the Japanese Frisbee Disc Assosiation. Tommy got a few of his friends, Zach, Peter Gatch would have played and anyone else we could find to drive out to Waltham. Tommy Shaper (endzone “Otto”) was instrumental in recruiting players to assemble enough to play our first game which I remember as being against Brandies at Brandies. The first team assembled mostly by word of mouth. I showed the article to Zack who immediately suggested we go to Tufts for the next practice and talk to them about the game and forming a team of our own. The article said Tufts held practices regularly on campus in preparation to play other college teams. The picture caught my eye first, some action shot showing players running to a floating disc, or something like that. One Saturday morning, while still laying in bed, I looked down on the floor at Friday’s Boston Globe that happened to be opened to a page featuring an article about this game called Ultimate Frisbee being played at Tufts. Peter Gatch would often be out there playing catch as well. I liked to toss the frisbee as well and invited my way into the game of catch which usually took place after dinner in the fall twilight. Zack could really throw the frisbee: backhands, forehands, skip it off the ground, through his legs, behind his back and for long distance. Zack Bakar, who was a sophomore, was tossing a Wham-O Master Frisbee (the 150 gram disc that was used for Ultimate at the time) in front of the Rich Hall where no one could help but to see him. “Freshman year I lived in Rich Hall, West Campus. Ultimate Frisbee made history with its first. Here’s BU alumni Jeff Durra’s account of the first year of BU Ultimate back in 1974: In 1970, Ken Westerfield and Jim Kenner, sponsored by Irwin Toy, began introducing disc sports across Canada.
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