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Vol. II, No. 7 June/July 1982.,IJLTIItfATE PLAYERS J'II'THE FIRST NAME IN FLYING DISCS."Since 1948", ST CLASS ff
'- -THE EASTERNS:LettersEditorialIILTI.ATE PI.At'ERS ASSOCIATIONVol. I , No.7 June/July 1982EDITOR P BLI H RTom KennedyAS JSTA 1 EDITORBarton MerrillA' OCJA1 E Dl ORJ effrey DurraART DIR CTORJim CookTHEPA NEW LETTERP. 0 . Box 4844Soma Barbara, a/ifomia 93103805 / 964-0458Contributors:Andy Borinstein. Yogi Durra, Sutanne Fields,David Hendler. lr Kalb , Eric Knud en, TomMac iven. Greg harp. ric imon .Contributing Photographers:Chris Perry, CaliforniaKarl ook , Washington D.C.Stuart Beringer, ew YorkHarvey Brandt . ew YorkCover Photo: Kelly Green outletagainst the Va zone at the Aprilool esti at. UVa' Lone held up athey went on to win 8-4.e Stuart Beringer.MOVING?What we don't want here isa failure to communicate!One of the most difficult jobs the UPAfaces is keeping up with address changes.A simple solution that has been suggested Is that all teams rent a Post Office Box.The cost Is only 20 a year, and allowsconsistent communication. If you havemoved-or plan to move In the near future-be sure to let the UPA Newsletterfollow you by letting us know your newaddress. Just paste your last addresslabel in the space provided below and letus know your new address.NAMENEW ADDRESSCITY/STATE/ZIPPlease return to:UPA NewsletterPost Office Box 4844Santa Barbara. Ca. 931033Ultimate Players AssociationTo Yogi:I have een many well-intentioned organizapon renewing my member hip to thetional idea and project come and go durPA, I would like to hare with you a fewing the time I have been involved with Fri of m reflection on the tate of ltimate inbee ports. ometime the ideas were implyEa t Tenne ee (and maybe in general).ahead of their time. but mo t often it waAlthough membership from my team in theonly a matter of unreali tic expectation .PA has doubled recently, it' not cause forThe UPA, a a young (only two-and-ayour rejoicing. Our membership in the UPAhalf year ) gras root organization with ahas gone from one to two. In fact , we havenearly limitles potential, hru. in a brief timerecently experienced a collective team brownexperienced a pronounced growth; alongout, and we may not be a team muchwith growth is growing pains. We must takelonger. We didn't even make it to the eccare to pursue realis1ica/ly any a pirationtional thi year, and we may not even go tofor future organizational tructuring.the informal tournament next year. In aI do not di agree with ric Knud en' bynut hell, we're barely hanging on. I hopelaw propo at regarding .change in thethat we're the exception to the averagePA' administration [ ee PA ewsle11er,ltimate team, but I ee orne problemMarch-April 19 2], but if nell' po it ion arewith ltimate in general which make mecreated we mu t be able to adequately comthink that maybe we're ju t a preview ofpen ate the indi idual for the output ofwhat· to come.time and energy required to con i tent!Our problem i lack of depth. I figureand diligently carry out the duties of tho ethata competiti e ltimate team need atoffice .least 25- 30 players of which three-fourthThe PA has, si nce it inception, had atcan be counted on to travel to tournamentleast three different regional coordinatorand practice regularly. We may have 10- 15for each region, except the outh (two) andplayer . I can count the number of newthe west (only my elf). The turno er in ecface ince last year on one hand. I can 'ttional coordinators ha been e en greater.count the number of face we don't eeMore often than not , this could have beenanymore on both hand . In other words,avoided if we had properly remunerated theour team is hrinking, not growing.people occupying the positions. Instead, ourOur lack of depth i due to the lack ofinternal communication have uffered drasUltimate experience in thi part of the countically becau e of the continual changes.try. There wasn't any Ultimate here before IBefore we create any new po ition wearrived, and now that there is, we're till thehould confirm that we have the resourcesonly game in town or county or area. We'reto ju tify tho e po ition , especially if wea ked in our renewal notice to get ourdon't fir t cover the coordinators' po itions." ltimate playing friend "to join the PA.Along these lines, !lind it interesting thatHell, I'd ju t like to get my friend to playthe last Ea t Coast captain meeting did notltimate. At 31, mot of my friend ayaddre the PA' mot pre ing is ue: thethey're too old to run around in the cold. oestablishment of a financial philo ophy andthe problem a I ee it i to attract newfuture goal .younger players to the port. nfortunately,Re earch into the financial operationswhat I see in the newsletter i a ort of Reaand philo ophies of other non-profit ervicegan trickle-down in it content. I'm ure thisoriented organization could help u ; withdi tasteful comparison is unintended, but itthi background we could begin to budgetgoes like this- let's write about the bigeither pecilic amount or percentages fortournament , the established team , the famPA monie ; we could et guidelines tiedous player , and maybe enthu ia m for thedirectly to long- and hort-term goal of theport will trickle down to the average ltiPA.mate player, and he11 catch lire, join theBut deciding the basic direction, the futPA, and get his friend to join al o.ure, of the PA is not an ea y ta k. We canMost of my team have een the UPAbenefit by looking at ports-oriented organnew letter, but mo tare unimpresse becauseization , uch as the ational ollegiateit does not relate to their experiences. TheyAthletic A ociation ( AA), Americandon't care about the ew Jersey and CaliYouth Soccer Organization (AYSO), U.S.fornia team . They want to see more articlesGolf A ociation ( SGA), as well a theabout the port itself, trategy, blocking techAmerican Cancer Society and ierra Club,niques, etc. They want to see more evidenceamong others. omplex con ideration arethattheir 7.00 i furthering the cause of themet when working in this direction, and weport it elf. To that end I'd like to make acould u e the help of all tho e of you whofinal plea.are trained profes ionally in this area. We(continued on page I I)(continued on page 10)Boston teams highlight the EasternsIn an all-Bo ton-area final, The Ho tages defeated The RudeBoy 18 13 to capture the 1982 Ea ·tern hampionship . In thewomen's division, Michigan State' Fishhead won their fir t Eastoa t champion hip, upending the niversity of irginia 9 6.Be ide the ational . the Ea terns are one of the mo t competitive and pre ·tigiou ltimate tournament in the country. TheMay 8 9 champion hip were no exception. Twenty men' teamThe pooling was Pool A: Glas boro, Rude Boy , tub. YoMamma, Harvard. Pool B: Zoo Disc, Penn Refubee, evenages, .Y. Heifer , Princeton. Pool C: Ho tages, ni ersity ofSan Salvador, niver ity of 1rgm.a, Dukes, ltimate Air &pace. Pool D: Knights of ee. Earth ltimate, Michigan State,Kut7town State, entral onnecticut.Pool A wa one of the mo t intere ting groupings of the tour-s Kelly Green affempts to move the disc in the finals against a tight UVa zone. MSU was up to the task, winning 9-6.Photo by Pete Holschuh.and ten women' team!. competed; of the twenty men' team ,nine came from the orthea t and Mid-Atlantic Region, andtwo came from the entral Region. For the econd con ecutiveyear, Derek Lent and hi hard-working !.taff from the Purcha ePit ltimate Club combined to host an event that wa enjoyableto both player and pectator. Becau e of their efforts and planning, SY Purcha e once again proved to be an ideal facilityfor holding the Eastern.Sunny weather greeted the opening of the tournament. A captains meeting was held at 9:30 a.m. The team pokespeople metand di cu ed the various ground rules of the tournament. Teamswere eeded according to their standing in the previou weekend'regionals. The Central teams were ranked according to their mo trecent performance against East oast teams (i.e., the AprilFool Festival).nament. In the first game of the pool, The Club, a team coachedby Jon Cohn, con isting mostly of former and present Cornellplayers, upset defending Easterns champ Glassboro State by aingle goal. However, The Club dropped games to the Rude Boysand a surprisingly tough and hard-running Harvard squad. Harvard was not able to overcome a better killed Rude Boys team totake the pool' second position. And the Rudies could not contain Glas boro' hort controlled offen e. Thus, despite theiropening lo , Glas boro won the top spot in Pool A.Pool B had the most even group of teams. Each team had afair chance of advancing into Sunday' play. In the pool's opening games, ortheast Regional champ Zoo Disc played a patientoffensive game against the N.Y . Heifer zone defense. Zoo Discprevailed by two. The UPenn Refubee, the Ivy League champion, had some trouble in their opener again t perennial foe
4Princeton. However, Penn squeaked by, 10- 9. In other poolaction, Zoo Di c and the Seven ages quared off in a matchupof trong man-to-man defenses. Zoo Di c proved to be a bitstronger, winning the game by two. Zo Di c went on to defeatPrinceton by five. In the pool's mo t exciting match, Big RickAtkins scored what proved to be the winning goal in Penn'13 12 overtime victory again t the Heifer . After an even fir thalf, Penn went on to defeat the ages, 15 9, putting the Heiferout of the tournament and setting up a Penn-Zoo Di c matchupfor the top two spot in Pool B. In that game, Zoo Di c thoroughly thra hed a tired and eemingly di oriented Refubee team12 2.In Pool , The Ho tages went undefeated and the niver ityof an Sal ador ( S) defeated the ni ersity of irginia tocapture the pool's second position.Pool D was a di appointment becau e Kutztown failed tohow up and Central Connecticut left after playing only onegame, a lo to Earth Ultimate. A a result, ee and MS playedonly two game and Earth played three. The Knight of ee wonboth their games. Earth beat MSU in a clo e come-from-behindictory. M U had made the long trek from Michigan to playonly two games before returning home.The women were divided into three pool . Two of these poolhad three teams, the other had four. The top two team in thethree-team bracket and the top three teams in the four-team pooladvanced to Sunday' quarterfinal round. The winner of a wildcard game between the lowe t fini her in Pool A and B wouldalso advance to the quarterfinal .The pool were- Pool A: niversity of Virginia, KAO , Glas boro. Pool B: Michigan State, Cornell Wild Ro es,PennZephyrs. Poolew England Women' Di c ( EWD), Bo tonLadies Ultimate, Andromeda, Z L .In Pool A, Va. had no trouble handling KAOS or Glas boro. KAOS defeated 'Boro by two, advancing to Sunday's play.Even though 'Boro had lo t two games, they till had an opportunity to advance. They were the wild card team from Pool A.Michigan State crushed the two teams in the pool. ir t theytook care of the Zephyrs 14-3. Then they hut out the WildRoe , 10-0. The Ro es defeated the Zephyr 10 5, and advancedto the quarter . U Penn had to match up again t 'Boro for the lastpot in unday' action. In that game, which wa actually playedearly Sunday morning, the Zephyr played their be t tournamentperformance to date, going on to beat 'Boro 12 8.NEWD arid Bo ton Ladie took the top two pot in theirpool. Andromeda ad anced when they defeated Z L . It waAndromeda' first ictory e er.Women's Sunday Play: In the quarterfinal ·, the Zephyrs, inspiredby their ictory over Glas boro, played extremely well in their8- 5 lo s to Va . MSU defeated Andromeda 14-4. BL easilyhandled KAOS, and in a clo e gameWD beat the Wild Ro es6- 3.In the semifinal , it wa MS defeating NEWD and Vaovercoming BLU, 10- 9. In that game, Va cored two goal inthe Ia t minute to beat BLU .In the finals, the Fi hheads took their time and picked apartVa' 1- 3- 2- 1 zone defen e. M ' per on-to-per on defenseapeared to frustrate Va. MS won the game 9-6.Men's Sunday play: Prior tounday' quarterfinal round, theteam captains agreed upon a format of play. It wa decided thatthe fir t-place pool winner would play runner -up rom different region . Also, quarterfinal games would consist of two ISminute top halves (the first round game Ia ted 2x 15 stop time).The semis would increase to two halve of 20 stop-time minuteand the final would be regulation 24 top-time halves.June/ July 1982sThe Quarterfinals: The quarter held orne urprises. The Knightof ee, runner -up at the ational , were beaten by a determinedRude Boy team, 10- 6. After leading at halftime 5-4. the eecould only mu ter one goal in the entire econd half. The Rudieplayed an exceptionally hard man-to-man which forced the eeinto commiting many turnovers.In one of the tournament' mo t exciting games, Zoo Di crallied from a 14-11 deficit to defeat the niver ity of an alvador 16 15.After trailing by five goal early in the first half, Penn cameback to tie the Ho tag in the beginning of the econd half. Butthe Ho tage witched from a zone to a man-to-man, enablingthem to break away from the Refubees, 19- 12.The Earth /'Boro game pitted a well known power again t aurpri ingly new ew York area team. Earth is compri ed offormer ew York Heifer standout Brian and Kenneth Dobynand hris and Adam Phillip , a well as orne of the Middleburyplayer who made the emi of the 19 I Eastern . But the 'Boro'experience proved commanding. he 'Boro capitalized on two ofarth' four fir t-half turnover to take a 6-4 halftime lead. 'Borooutla ted the Earthlings for an II 8 triumph.The semifinal h aw the Rude Boy playing Zoo Di c and theHo tage taking on Gla boro. In the fir t conte t, the Rudie ,aided by a trong wind, employed a 2- 3- 2 zone, which tymiedZoo Di c' offen e. Zoo Di c would swing the di c but could notcomplete a ucce ion of upfield turnover . The Rude Boy capitali7ed on the Zoo' turnover and con erted them into goal .The Rud ie al o worked well offen ively again t Zoo Di c' tubborn man-to-man. The Rudies' 13 8 victory propelled them intothe final .Any team that play the Ho tages know · that one cannot turnthe di cover and expect to win. The 'Boro kept the game clo e inthe first half by u ing orne daring pa e again t the Ho tage?one. AT the half, with the Ho tages ahead 7 5, the game lookedlike it would be clo e. But the 'Boro became quickly fru trated athe Ho tages cored four of the econd hatrs first fi e goal . heHo tages went onto win ea ily, 14 9.Being from the arne city, the Ho tages and the Rude Boyhave quared off against each other countless times. Lately, theHostage have held the upperhand in the eries. o it wa withthe final game of the 1982 a terns.After a tele i ion crew filmed the lineup of the two team ,both squad opened with 2 3 2 defen e . At fir t it appeared thatthe Ho tages would roll o er the Rud ie when they took an earlyfour-goal lead. But the Rude Boys would not quit. The halffinished with the Ho tages leading 7 5.In the econd half. both team witched to a man-to-man. TheRudies played hard and came within one with eight minutesremaining. But the efforts of Dave Barkin, Ste e Gu taf on, andSchmidty helped the Ho tages score three unan wered goal enroute to an 18 13 ictory. The Ho tage played very well in thistournament. 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June/ July 19826Mothers Day is rapidly becoming the Aying Circu ' favorite holiday. The Circusu ed the occasion to reassert their dominance by repeating as champions of the 2ndannual Mothers Day Festival held in tanford , California, May 16-17.Hosted by the Stanford Synap e, theMothers Day Tournament is the first opportunity for the Western region to get together. The Synap e and their affiliates goto great lengths to as ure that every teamhas an opportunity to play quality Ultimate.The Circus, eeded number one, had twochallenges in their pool. San Jo e, led byBo ton Ho tage captain Matt William on,utilized a zone but, without Beeb, were notup to the test. Colorado, with ick Domenick and Henry Callahan (ex-Dark Star)were an unknown quantity. They tradedpoint with the Circu but, as the gamewore on, the Circus depth took it toll asthey finished strong, winning their pool.The Colorado Coop howed they are aforce a they uspet San Jo e to gain aquarterfinal berth.The econd pool was al o very trong.The an Diego Flo (aka 'Boro We t), usinga 3
Pool B had the most even group of teams. Each team had a fair chance of advancing into Sunday' play. In the pool's open ing games, ortheast Regional champ Zoo Disc played a patient offensive game against the N.Y. Heifer zone defense. Zoo Disc prevailed by two.
