Two years later, two college teams played against each other for the first time in a game of ultimate. The colleges were Princeton University and Rutgers University.
CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Dan “The Stork” Roddick was a player for the Rutgers team. He was twenty-five-years old and a graduate student in sociology. His team had been playing together for only two months. But other students had heard about the game.
Reporters also heard about it. So when “The Stork” looked up from the field, he saw a thousand people watching.
THE STORK: “They were super into it. I mean, they kind of treated it like football. They ‘whooooooaa’ on every time there was a throw-off, and that noise drew even more crowd.”
CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: The first college ultimate game was exciting because the sport was new. And it repeated history. Rutgers and Princeton played the first college football game on exactly the same day more than a century earlier. And in eighteen sixty-nine, as in nineteen seventy-two, Rutgers won.
THE STORK: “There were lots of really, really weird things that went down that day, and we were just reeling at the end of that. We thought, ‘Oh, my gosh, this is, it’s going to be Monday Night Ultimate on major stations by the end of the month,’ you know. It was wild.”
JUNE SIMMS: Ultimate never became as popular as Monday Night Football in the United States. Instead, it mostly remains what “The Stork” calls “alternative.” In other words, ultimate does not try to be like other sports. And it welcomes a lot of different kinds of players. In that way, ultimate is a product of the culture of the nineteen sixties, when it was invented.
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