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Frisbee into the curriculum. Together with his friends Bernard "Buzzy" Hellring and Jonathan "Jonny" Hines, they got other students to play their new game and refined the rules, producing a written "first edition" of the rules for the sport Joel dubbed "Ultimate Frisbee" and naming their group the "Columbia High School Varsity Frisbee Squad" in early 1970. The three classmates laid the foundation required to permit the transformation of a recreational activity into a sport over the following years. Ultimate today is still played largely according to the rules developed by Joel, Buzzy, and Jonny.
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Association's test, passing it as masters. The IFA was then the sport's governing body...Hellring continued to write tongue-in-cheek Frisbee stories and place ads for the team in the paper. In one, the paper reported that "the rise of Frisbee in Columbia high school is merely indicative of a world-wide trend, according to major national periodicals." The story went on to cite a Time magazine article which recommended that the U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. take their cue and henceforth "settle all disputes between the two with Frisbees instead of missiles."
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