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• Badminton


  A racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net
• Badminton


  • Most common forms are singles (one player per side) and doubles (two players per side)
• Badminton was invented


  Ancient Greece and Egypt
• Battledore and shuttlecock


  An earlier game that badminton developed from in British India, where two players hit a feathered cork back and forth with tiny rackets
• Badminton rules


  • Court - rectangular in shape divided into halves by a net
• Frisbee


  A plastic disc that was started from the pie tin plate by the Frisbee Company located in New Haven, Connecticut
• Fred Morrison created a plastic version of the disc and called it Flying Saucer


  1948
• Fred Morrison created an improvised version known as the Pluto Platter


  1951
• The Pluto Platter was renamed and bought by the WHAM-O Manufacturing Company


  1955
• Ultimate Frisbee


  A sport invented by Jared Kass, who taught Joel Silver the frisbee game he was working on at a camp for high school students in Massachusetts in 1967. Kass is credited with inventing the sport of Ultimate Frisbee.
• Jared Kass entered Lafayette College, where he formed the first collegiate Ultimate team


  1970
• • Serving - shuttlecock must pass over the opposite service court