Who inventedthe frisbee?

Answer 1

Walter Fredrick Morrison is the inventor of the Frisbee. Walter came up with the idea of the Frisbee when he was throwing a popcorn lid to his woman. He then started throwing cake pans. Walter eventually came up with the Frisbee design in 1946.

Answer 2

It has been said that the first frisbees were tin pie pans from the Frisbie Baking Company and that college students in the surrounding Connecticut area were the first to throw the pans for fun.

But, a version of the first plastic frisbee was invented by Walter Morrison and Warren Franscioni in 1948.

Answer 3

Walter Morrison invented the Frisbee. It was named for the pie company that made the pie tins that he hurled as a youth

A baker named William Russel Frisbie, of Warren, Connecticut, and later of Bridgeport, came up with a clever marketing idea back in the 1870s. He put the family name in relief on the bottom of the light tin pans in which his company's homemade pies were sold. The pans were reusable, but every time a housewife started to bake a pie in one, she would see the name Frisbie and, it was hoped, think, "How much easier to buy one". Eventually Mr. Frisbie's pies were sold throughout much of Connecticut, including New Haven.

There, sometime in the 1940s, Yale students began sailing the pie tins through the air and catching them. A decade later, out in California, a flying-saucer enthusiast named Walter Frederick Morrison designed a saucer-like disk for playing catch. It was produced by a company named Wham-O. On a promotional tour of college campuses, the president of Wham-O encountered the pie-plate-tossing craze at Yale. And so the flying saucer from California was renamed after the pie plate from Connecticut. Of course the name was changed from Frisbie to Frisbee to avoid any legal problems.

1970's Frisbee (Disc) Becomes a Sport

There were a few Guts and Distance tournaments before 1970, but disc sports really began in the 1970's. Guts, Ultimate, Freestyle, Golf, Distance, Accuracy, MTA, Self Caught Flight, Discathon and Double Disc Court became disc sports first events.

There are certain people and events that stand out when acknowledging who laid the ground work for the transition of playing with the Frisbee as a toy to disc sports. The Healy family (Guts), Tom Kennedy, Irv Kalb, Joel Silver and Jared Kass, (Ultimate and UPA, Ultimate Players Association), Ken Westerfield (Freestyle, Ultimate and the Canadian Open Frisbee Championships), Jim Kenner (Discraft, Freestyle and Canadian Open Frisbee Championships), Dave Marinni (FPA, Freestyle Players Association), Jim Palmeri (AFDO, American Flying Disc Open, Disc Golf and DDC), Tom Schot (Santa Cruz Flying Disc World Championships), Dan Roddick (Octad (Over-all), World Frisbee Championships (WFC), IFA and WFDF), Ed Headrick (Wham-O, WFC, IFA and Disc Golf). These are people that not only excelled with the Frisbee when it was still considered a toy, but help create the formats and concepts through their own tournaments and or organizations that produced the events and organization of disc sports we see today.

The Canadian Open Frisbee Championships, Toronto Canada, American Flying Disc Open (AFDO), Rochester, NY, Octad, Rutgers, New Jersey, International Frisbee Tournament (IFT), Marquette, MI, Santa Cruz Tournaments, Santa Cruz, California, and the World Frisbee Championships (WFC), held at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, were the most progressive and trend setting tournaments of that time. These tournaments are where the sport of Frisbee ( disc sports ) really began.

Answer 4

Walter Morrison and Warren Franscioni invented a version of the first plastic frisbee in 1948.

Morrison continued to work on a basic plastic model for the modern frisbee and called it Pluto Platter. He received design patent 183,626 for a flying toy on September 30, 1958.

Answer 5

Walter Morrison invented the Frisbee. It was named for the pie company that made the pie tins that he hurled as a youth

Answer 6

The frisbee was invented really early in time. The first person would be unknown but probably first used by the person who invented it...Walter Frederick Morrison.

Answer 7

Walter Frederick Morrison invented the frisbee.

Answer 8

The Wham-O company first sold the Frisbee and continue to sell them today.

Answer 9

In the year 1948 .