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The
Next Generation...
The
Youth Movement (1991-1996)
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Early Years (1971-1979)
The Golden Age (1980-1990) The Youth Movement (1991-1996) The Phoenix Rising (1997-present) |
Fall 1990 For
some unknown reason, many freshman want to play Tufts ultimate. Cliff Slater
runs practices on Fletcher Field wielding a lucite cane and breaks the
team up in to A "we are so full of ourselves we will walk through Div 1
Regionals" and B "we are happy just to be alive" squads. Tom Cole instructs
youth in ways of shralping, styling, devo 8 tracks and par 3 golf. Discs
are sold for exorbitant fees to unknowing frosh. Dan Ackerstein and Doug
Kantor, having played for year in the hot ulti bastion of Sarasota and
having handmade their own maudlin Tufts Ultimate t shirts even before arriving
at college, come to Tufts and realize their dreams shattered. They have
no future in this game. Despite this obvious fact, they ha 8-personng around
practices and follow the team to tournaments. There is speculation that
they created the B team as a splinter faction just as a way to deny this
truth to themselves. Larry Prensky is the elder statesman on this B team.
Yes, it was that bad. In every way the A Team screams "Ben Macklowe you
are cut", but he continues to hang around annoying everyone. Jamie "I'm
obsessed with the Middle East" Hall, looking for his first friends at college,
follows his roommate Mat "no one knows that this is really my name" Kessler
down to Fletcher Field one day. Like all great Tufts teams, Emen A does
very well the first day of Ultimate Affair and blows it the second. Emen
B embarrasses all 50 teams at the tournament, goes 0-4 and scores 3 pts.
Captain Cliff Slater calls Ackerstein a perfect example of what not to
do.
Spring 1991 Tufts travels to NYC to play Columbia, Harvard, UVM, etc. on a field of glass and shrapnel on Randalls Island. During viewing of moonraker at Craig Slaters apt Dan Ackerstein, in conversation with Silas Everett and Chris Cowart, coins phrase, "chicks dig it." Tufts is a very Senior heavy team. Chris Cowart and Silas play with some all star team in Miami and win that tournament. High on that victory, they go on to College Easterns in Wilmington, NC. Mat Kessler and JJ are the only freshman to make the trip. Tufts is upset that they are stuck in a pool with Nationals contenders Cornell and ECU even though they won this tournament the year previous. They decide that it is a better strategy to complain and lose than to play hard and win. At this same tournament Mat Kessler dies and is reborn, christened by Tom Cole and Pat as "Geech", starting a new trend of stupid nicknames in Tufts Ultimate. Tufts manages to avoid disqualification when they cheat in a few tournaments by having well known Alums Gary "Glasses" Lippman and Damon "Death Bat" Spitz play with them. Tufts loses to eventual Nationals qualifiers Boston College at Sectionals.As the last straw, Regionals happen the same weekend as graduation. Tufts sends a team of 8, including a sailor named Josh and sucks big time. Summer 1991 In a stroke of genius, Tufts conceives of an alumni team called Somerville Youth. In their hot pink t shirts and their brazen ripped off car stereo logo, the Youth quickly go to the finals of Albany Ow My Knee, losing to college all-stars Moscow State. Featuring all the names you've come to love - Gary "I deliver pizza" Lippman, Dick "Patience!" Brown, Rich "I'm more sarcastic than you can ever imagine" Robinson and Allen "I'm very concerned about the future of Latin American development in the post Cold War era" Ewald, the Youth really make their presence felt. Unknown to the Youth, however, the team will spend many Hinghams and Albanies going thesame way, wondering why they crack in the finals if their egos are so big, before actually pulling off a victory years later. Fall 1991 Terry Helwig and Jason Salgo return from abroad, take over team leadership, make dumb shirts. Chris "Buzz" Cowart and Alec "EPIIC" Ewald roll the Emen to play with Big Brother. "Little Chris" is quickly bastardized to reflect his Big Brother status as "Little Brother." As always, They lose at UPA Open Nationals to NYNY in the finals. Michael Carcamo somehow free associates the "PM" that stands for Primary Middle with a popular supermarket chain the Hudson Valley. Is heretofore known as Pathmark. For a brief time in his college career he actually practices. Ryan Miller also joins; Ackerstein designates him "Animal" for obvious physical gifts. Michael "Sticky Hands" Schreiner also joins, thus creating the greatest misnomer-nickname in Tufts history. Greg Maxwell and Ben Greeley, after middling careers in basketball and cricket, respectively, add much needed altitude. Anthony Abiragi, reminded of his domination of Ackerstein in a pickup game on the second day of freshman orientation, also joins. Alex Hackman comes aboard. Tufts plays at home Halloween tournament in costume as Bunker Hill Community College Let's Go Bowling Ultimate. Dan quits team mid-tournament after argument with female teammate (Amanda B.) Chris shows up and shows off. Is awkwardly but prominently included in team picture. Ben Greeley wins state costume award as Selsun Blue guy. Tufts fails to defeat Chowderheads to get to Div. 2 Regionals in fall, an all time low. Out of numerous candidates, Coach Paul Sackley hired after a lengthy interview process. Gary "Big-Boned" Lippman reacts poorly to snub. Binges on munchkins. The Little Brother somehow metamorphoses again to become El Lobo Solo, or the Lobo, for short. Spring 1992 Spring Break in Florida punctuated by Coach's neon green tank tops and Kevin Book refusing to play. No one is upset by either. Coconut Jim, a stupid coconut head, somehow is put onto t shirts as mascot. This is a Tufts low point in style. Tufts battles UVM at easterns in a legendary contest. Wins on Dan's super weak throw which Pathmark somehow grabs. Legend begins; egos start crawling out of shells. El Lobo now evolves out of the pupa stage and becomes Bobo. As an obvious plea for help, in a fit of desperation and anger Cowart cries out "Don't fucking call me Bobo" after repeated mockings by Coach Paul during practice, thus sealing his fate for all time. Alec "The 50 yard cross field hammer into the wind is my best throw after I make a sick layout grab" Ewald, Rich "I only sleep during important games" Robinson, Paul "Davros" Weitz, and "Little" Bobo carry Tufts to quarters at regionals, beating Columbia in what would be the first of many great embarrassing beatings. During Wesleyan game (game to go to game to go to Nationals) Tufts power-foursome falls apart. In one of the best on paper matchups of college ultimate, Alec "Big Brother" Ewald faces Benji "NYNY". Al talks shit big and implodes. Robinson takes infamous nap during 2nd half. At the end of season, team gives T Helwig a really sweet plaque with frisbee and signatures. Terry is never heard from by anyone again. Fall 1992 Doug Crawford Bensadoun and Ken "Young Lion" Wing join team, quadrupling overall team physical attractiveness and animal magnetism. With Geech, Greeley, Abiragi and others abroad, Tufts wins Div 2 sectionals after beating Masters of Boston (w John Hilas) after great performance of Elie Kurzer. Shooters become integrated into tournament ritual. Signs are stolen. Tufts travels to Div 2 regionals, playing as "Buried Head of OstRICH", on second day, humiliate Columbia by performing Mighty Tired imitation (shooters, timeouts, camera on field.) etc... Columbia, previously gunning for vengeance, now filled with bile and hate. We steal lots of signs. Tufts craw arrives and is christened. Craw hats and gear arrive soon afterwards First and Last Mighty Tired Shooterfest ends season brilliantly. Party at ATO is legendary. Many famous photos of Rich Robinson are taken. These would later be critical. John Bar is revealed, unsuspecting. Bart rests beer on stomach. Later performs a standing backflip. Spring 1993 Tufts again travels to Florida. Head of Rich shirts are unveiled to the pleasure of the nation. Sage Bray, after stealing liquor from the Bobo house, gives emphatic rallying speech, including the legendary sound bite "You've got to play your own gig" then passes out. Maxwell moons tournament party; Sticky pukes in restaurant parking lot. Menudo poster on restaurant wall is memorably not stolen. Animal Miller speaks to the nation via citizens band radio, claiming "you ain't lived til you had a warm sheep rectum wrapped around yer pecker." and "I don't care if there is grass on the infield, you cant play ball with yer pappy." Tufts sucks at College Easterns. Coach's surprise arrival does not help. Loss to Navy after 14-8 lead game to 15 proves valuable as a learning lesson. Pathmark breaks collarbone, heretofore known as the "Carcamo". The more cuddly "Woob" grows in popularity as a replacement moniker for Cowart. The most evolved nickname transformation in history concludes with the rising of "Wuby" later in the season. Gmax bites into Lammie's head at practice, breaking his front tooth off. Silas refuses to surrender his t-shirt in order to control the bleeding ... "but he'll get blood all over it!". The Crack Monkey, get-it-going-away-and-huck-it, offense develops. Bobo gets motivated and writes unnecessary play book. Shave the Yak, Paint the Fence and St. Louis become official in writing. Tufts goes to ivies, goes undefeated first day, wins party in grand style. They brag about beating Albany, Rutgers (our bobo good, their bobo dead) and others. Dead cheer reaches new heights. Pooch plays at 2 tournaments, drives Silas into exile, then quits with aplomb. Dan enjoys hot tub with naked ewo. Coach lambastes. Undergrads defeat alumni in first Student/Alumni game in absolute shocker. Gary, Brett, Rich, Sackley and others are floored. Alumni go home absolutely depressed. Tufts has rough sectionals, losing to both MIT and Boston College. Onward to regionals, where Tufts upsets numbered shirt wearing columbia with give-it-to-bobo-bobo-throw-it-to-silas offense. Very, very effective. Tufts then infamously falls to Albany and the Cheater, then loses all-time bloodbath to UVM. Geech gets conkessler when it's one point to victory. Heartbreak City. Sackley finally gets an opposing team to play a game to even numbers, but unfortunately it costs the E-Men as a game that would have been won, 15-13 ends up as a 16-15 loss." Summer 1993 Somerville Youth plays again at Albany. Geech is photographed in action by regional paper. God speaks through the mouth of Rich Robinson and tells photojournalist that his full name is "Geech Sorensen". Photo with caption are published the next day. The Youth, in typical bravacciio style and without Dick Brown, lose to Ottowa in the Finals. No one knows how this is possible. Stupid Canadians. Fall 1993 Tufts almost all senior team. Johnny Kilroy, Motorboat Jones, Fitch, others join for reasons unknown as Tufts will soon consume its young. Doug Dantor becomes known as Canteen Boy. Tufts fall highlighted by stunning come-from-behind victory over Yale at Williams. Geech, Abiragi seal game with stunning defense. Geech carried off field. Prophetic? At Division 1 Sectionals Dan gets layout block on "For some reason I still dress like it's the early eighties" Gary in the game against the Big Brother Commies. Last back defense gets respect. Hawaiian shirts debut to the delight of unsuspecting fans. Tufts shocks eastern club world by making Division 1 Regionals. At Regionals Tufts takes lead against #2 Boston team called Area B or something. Geech and Ackerstein played with this team in the summer. In defiance this team chants "Geech Dead! Ackerstein Dead!". Tufts up by 5 but loses as old club guys wake up. Unprecedented arrogance would characterize the winter. September 19, 1993 RICH ROBINSON Memorial Interactive Frisbee Museum commemorated: (destroyed (but not in the metaphysical sense): 21st of May,1994) Spring 1994 Once again Tufts travels to FLA. Defeats dumb southern teams in Miami to advance as far as alumni counterparts "Johnson Paint." Bitterness results. Coach Paul Sackley, in crutches almost gets into fight with redneck in the middle of a game. Tufts wears John bar shirts and matching shorts. Loses to Miami Refugees in quarters. 4 man plays, 3 man plays, stack to one side and a play called the Cleaner develop. Tufts plays 2 zone defenses and a clam. Tufts travels to Easterns in NC. In a stunning upset, they defeat UPA #1 ranked U of Georgia in pool play. All of the other teams in their pool go down easily. They sincerely enjoy tournament party and presence of Piper's calves. Tufts loses to Binghampton in quarters. Nevertheless, this fluke loss doesn't affect their severely inflated ego. Tufts is ranked #6 by the UPA. Lammie moves to change team name to 'PrimeRates' in mockery of ECU. The move is tabled indefinitely. Tufts wins Queens Cup at Rutgers after defeating Yale in finals and Wesleyan in quarters. Incredible victory highlighted by play of Craig Cohen, Geech, Crawford, Anthony, and Mikey. Saturday play was highlighted by a humiliating shut out of Columbia with 10 players and a broken (ken) Wing. Tufts is ranked #5 by UPA. Tufts collapse begins at Lehigh. Ego gets knocked down when Tufts loses to Yale in pool play and in semis as Cornell rolls. Kilroy loses famous Rosham scrapple amongst velvet walls. Tension reigns at practice in the following weeks. Get the Point shirts are the rage, but somehow do not unify team. Ivies at Yale are hilarious. Cardboard Shaq joins team for one game. Pool play and quarters are a joke. Tufts loses in semis to Bingo in typical method of self destruction. Tufts loses hard fought battle to stacked alumni squad. Alumni wants respect they feel they deserves. Tufts loses to MIT in bloodbath at sectionals. Huge crowd watches game. In deference of great food, Tufts wears Bob's Food Store shirts with enormous pride. At Regionals, #5 seeded Tufts thrashes #4 seeded MIT and coach John Bar in revenge, avenging previous defeat. MIT famous types Tim Tuttle, Coop and Mike Jones are made very sad. Tufts loses to Cornell in Saturday's game to go, proving that Cornell is truly in a different league. Must be all of their goddamn grad students. On Sunday Tufts defeats the hated SUNY Purchase, then plays the Yale "Annoyers". Emen are down 10-4 in the rain to Yale before Sackley puts in zone team over Ackerstein's objections. Tufts wins 17-14 when Yale grad student vets crumble and Maxwell asserts dominance. Unbelievable victory. Tufts then faces Binghamton for the second seed for Nationals. Game highlighted by 4 man plays and hucks to Greeley and Maxwell. Bingo makes many weak calls, Tufts O is turnover ridden. Tufts loses by 2 or 3. Dreams crash into oblivion. They make 3rd place, but through some egregious accounting error in the 93 season, # 3 does not qualify to go. Ackerstein's life forever scarred with this failure. Fall 1994:
The E-men wisely rework the "bread and butter" play ("Fitch to Motorboat to Kilroy to Mark") that they used as a B team a year earlier. While not officially designated as such, their new (streamlined) bread and butter play evolves into "Motorboat to Sven". Tufts participates in the first ever Beanpot Tournament. The six Boston teams play each other once each to determine the top 4 teams for the playoffs. The E-men lose to MIT, Harvard, and BC. Even their victory over Brandeis is not without its price; Young Lee twists his left ankle. Booter earns his nickname at a team party held an hour after the conclusion of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. Despite having gone without food for the 25-hour holiday, Booter eagerly shotguns a beer, which does not remain in his stomach for long. In the final game of the regular season, Tufts uncharacteristically scores 4 unanswered points at the cap to win 13-11. Celebration ensues because the E-men mistakenly believe that their 2-3 record (identical to that of BU) has earned them the #4 seed. Ironically, a complex series of tiebreakers awards the playoff birth to BU, who withdraws from the playoffs and allows Tufts to play anyway. BC eliminates Tufts in the semi-finals despite the efforts of Pathmark, playing in his first game of the season. Peter Fish designs "UPA Victors" discs. Team decides to terminate the contract of Coach Gary Lippman, citing his not having attended a single practice in his semester-long tenure with the team. Motorboat defeats Mark in ro-sham-fire-Gary to see who would deliver the bad news. Spring 1995:
Boat and Mark unveil the new purple shirts with yellow happy faces.
Dissatisfaction with them is principally due to the common complaint by
E-men
Shecky is named team social chairman. The first weekend of spring break, Tufts attends college easterns at
UNC Wilmington. Thieves running the tournament cash Tufts' $50 deposit.
In the
The E-men arrive late for their first outdoor game of the season. Tufts matches up against ECU and suffers a lopsided loss. But Motorboat’s huck to Sven (accounting for Tufts' only point) and ECU captain Mike G's subsequent demand for observers makes the season opener a success. The E-men crash at alum Doug Kantor's house in Sarasota for the week.
Doug's father is generous enough to not only donate his house, but "I have
Kantor
Tufts travels to ECU for Ultimax. The E-men arrive on time at the tournament despite Fitch's insistence upon blow-drying his hair before they leave the hotel. Tufts loses to ECU and several other teams on horribly maintained baseball fields. Motorboat makes a solemn pledge to never again return to Ultimax- a promise he would keep for almost 5 years. New coach Peter Richards re-tools Tufts' offense, terming it "organic." His principle contribution to the team would be the "code blue" defense, which proved quite effective despite the silliness of its name. Peter may be best remembered for engaging in a shouting match with Claudius. The E-men defeat SUNY Purchase in Sunday’s opening game at Haverford. Young Lee arrives late. Tufts hosts sectionals and takes an 8-7 lead over BU. Led by their
bread and butter play and a surprisingly healthy Young Lee, the E-men score
7
Fall 1995:
The E-men sweep their pool at the Snowball Classic. In a pre-game toss, Shecky point blocks himself when he attempts to throw underneath his own leg. Young Lee hyperextends a finger on his throwing hand. Tufts falls in the finals to CMU. Tufts loses to BC in the finals of the Beanpot tournament. BC scores the opening point on a greatest and the remainder of the game never goes much better for the E-men. Tufts goes 5-0 in Division 2 sectionals. Regionals in Albany are a disappointment. Kilroy oversleeps and misses the tournament. More memorably, Dave Perry drops the game-winning score against SUNY Binghamton en route to an 11-10 loss. Spring 1996:
Motorboat decides to participate in a study abroad program that allows
him to participate in the entire indoor season but keeps him in Germany
for the
The E-men return to Miami for the opening weekend of spring break. They are quickly bounced to the consolation bracket, but manage 2 wins against a co-ed team from Melbourne to win the pool and a case of beer. Claudius and Shecky capture the "327" sign on a baseball field that had its home plate stolen only two years earlier. The team spends the week in Daytona watching trucks drive along the beach. Dave Perry begins offering the "tip-of-the-day." During the team’s first track workout, Pere "twists his ankle" and sits out the remainder of the workout's 400s. His teammates are suspicious, but too winded to question him, about the seriousness of his injury. Tuna vomits. Early season successes at Harvard and Amherst are diminished by Tufts poor play at Yale Cup, prompting Current Coach Dick to kick a water jug. The E-men recover to achieve moderate success at the Ivies tournament at Princeton. Coach Dick's patented reverse-crosscut play works to perfection; Mark is so excited about successfully completing it that he hurriedly buries his next throw in the ground. Tufts defeats rival MIT anyway. Kilroy unveils "Buck's Gun Rack" shirts. Claudius designs "Dancing Man" discs. Sectionals goes poorly. Young Lee sprains his thumb. The E-men establish a 12-5 lead against rival BC, due mostly to the efforts of EMT Yanoush Fudgcicle, who drags BC captain Lope to the hospital with what would later be diagnosed as a minor injury. Tufts would go on to collapse and lose the game. Regionals at Williams are played in rain and cold. Boo suffers a kick in the face and several cracked molars. Tufts loses to rival Wesleyan and defeats RPI- coached by alum Terry Helwig. Tufts loses an ugly game against BC in the quarter-finals. The contest became so heated that mild-mannered Ken Wing showed the disc to BC captain Lope after beating him deep for a score. |
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