But many passersby might not realize that Yale may have a special connection to the disc. According to a nearly century-old myth, a group of Yale students invented the frisbee from throwing around a ...

BRIDGEPORT -- There's a story told in these parts that goes something like this: The Frisbie Pie Co. on Kossuth Street sold its wares baked in steel tins. Students at Yale University used these ...

But the makeshift predecessor to the plastic Frisbee–a pie tin repurposed for a game of catch–has a murkier origin story. Morrison said that he and his then-future wife used to toss popcorn ...

When I got home, I did a bit of research and learned the Frisbie pie tin was, in fact, a predecessor of today’s ubiquitous Frisbee flying disc; so I hung the tin on my office wall. And I was ...

After hearing that students in New Haven had created an Ivy League fad tossing pie tins made by the Frisbie Pie Company, Wham-O seized on the trend and commandeered the name, changing the spelling ...

Dan O’Connor’s interest in the former Frisbie Pie Co. — the business credited with the invention of the flying disc later named the Frisbee — began when he found an old pie tin in a tag ...

Wham-O rebranded the disc “Frisbee” after the Frisbie Pie Company. You see, students at Yale had picked up on the idea of tossing a tin back and forth and were using the local company’s pie ...

as recounted in an online history of the Frisbee by Kennedy. At the time, it wasn’t an unheard-of activity: Kids and college students in New England had already been playing catch with pie tins ...

"It's also great exercise, and it's fun to watch and play." 1851-1900s: Pie tins from the Bridgeport, Conn.-based Frisbie Pie Co. would be turned upside down by folks and thrown to each other for ...