Trinity students’ penchant for streaking isn’t the only chance to see well-rounded, unidentified objects floating across campus.
The mania of frisbee golf hit campus in the early 1970s, developing as a recreational sport independently of University’s intramural program. Ardent Frisbee golf enthusiasts designed an 18-hole course that embraced both the lower and upper levels of the campus.
In these early days, players threw Frisbees at designated landmarks such as mailboxes, light posts, or tree trunks, with favorite targets being campus statues, especially the bronze busts of Earl Sams and George Storch. According to student lore, Trinitonian editor Mark Hill organized the first on-site Frisbee golf tournament in 1972, an event that featured a round-robin elimination contest. Pictured aboved, (from left) Randy Gathany ’77, Craig Farguhar ’77 and Tom Michero ’77 were on the cutting edge of Frisbee golf at Trinity.
In 1973 the founding fathers of Frisbee golf held an invitational tournament that offered an enormous gold-painted Frisbee as the first-place prize. In addition to golf, the event featured other throwing contests, a victory keg in the Rathskeller, and the crowning of a Frisbee queen.
Three years later, The Frisbee Golf Association of the United States designated Trinity an official tournament site.
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