Class of '82 Frisbee Golf Course

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In the autumn of 1978, a group of disc enthusiasts wandered out of their West Campus U-halls, 165g in hand, and embarked upon an improvised journey, both social and recreational, spontaneous yet ultimately structured, that would be forever etched in the mind and memories of a lucky handful of cosmic space traveling participants.

The 'disc golf' course was created and revised over a series of months, perhaps years, and played dozens of times by a maladjusted group of 'pathological anti-authoritarians' (phrase coined by B. Weir).[1]

The serpentine series of eighteen 'holes' traversed the campus, from West to East, beginning at the base of libe slope, stretching gracefully across the length and width of the Arts Quad, literally through the Johnson Art Museum and accompanying oversized sculptures, crossing back between Goldwin Smith Hall and Olin Library, up past Bailey Hall, and the ILR complex, onto and through the Ag Quad, crossing the street and winding down and eventually ending up somewhere on the Engineering Quad.

The final five holes of the course would be essentially unplayable on today's modern campus, given the evolution of physical structures and fields which have overtaken open spaces of the past.

Anyone who has ever tossed a disc around, about, and through the Cornell campus on a late Autumn, early Winter, or fine Springtime afternoon understands the felt sense created by the flight of the disc, the relaxed journey, pitstops and pitfalls, lost discs on ILR roofs, unsuspecting pedestrians caught in the crossfire, and the setting of the sun, prematurely halting the lightly competitive matchplay!