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"From the first moment I played Quidditch I loved it," said Benepe, who now lives in New York. Because they have to keep hold of their broomsticks, they must catch and pass the ball one-handed. While quidditch players in the Harry Potter series fly around a field on broomsticks, the non-magical "muggles" like Benepe run around the field with a broomstick between their legs. It's more in the league of ultimate frisbee, another sport that emerged from the free-wheeling style of non-varsity athletes and has spread throughout the country. Quidditch hardly looks like the serious business of college football.

It's real enough for the schools that college recruiters citing their attractions now routinely mention that they have a quidditch team. There is even a push for the NCAA, the arbiter of college sports, to sanction quidditch as, well, a real sport. 13 and 14, and the tournament has been moved to New York City. So the two Harry Potter fans invented the "muggle" version of quidditch.įive years later, the wacky sport has spread to more than 200 campuses and this weekend the fourth annual "Quidditch World Cup" has grown so large that more than 60 teams will compete during the two-day tournament over Nov.

10, 2010— - Five years ago, Alex Benepe and Xander Manshel wanted to find something more intense to do with their Sunday afternoons at Middlebury College in Vermont other than the sedate sport of bocce bowling.