Who threw the first disc?
No one knows, but it was certainly long before plastic was invented. Discus throwing was one of the competitions in the first Olympics held in 776 B.C. Early discs were made of unwrought bronze and iron. They were made by pouring molten metal into a raw circular shape. The discs were revered by the Grecians. In fact, the winner of the discus event received the discus as his prize. Did you know 15th-century Indian soldiers used a lethal throwing weapon called a Chacarani? This item was a flat ring made of steel with a sharpened edge. They hurled a Chacarani at an enemy by spinning them on their fingers, but they were also thrown like a discus. In the early 1900s, workers at the Frisbie Pie Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut made pie tin tossing a regular activity. Since the firm was located near Yale University, it wasn’t surprising that Yale students quickly heard about pie tossing and became interested in the fad.
