The club team, the Black Tide, has won four
men's national titles. Its adviser is Tom Kennedy, a local
machinist who founded the Ultimate Players Association in 1979
and is one of the sport's West Coast pioneers.
Iowa.
The 10 courts at the Fieldhouse, home to Hawkeye varsity
teams from 1926 to '82, are open 364 days a year from 7:30 a.m
to 10:30 p.m. After 3:30 a monitor enforces the rules--teams
must give up the court after three wins in a row; games up to
15, win by one; and women have priority if enough of them are
present.
Notre Dame.
Bookstore Basketball, the world's largest outdoor
five-on-five tournament, is contested over three weeks each
April by close to 700 teams. It goes on through rain, sleet,
snow--even spring football practice, from which quarterback Ron
Powlus is excused if his team has a game. More entertaining than
the quality of play are the team names, which often walk a
tightrope of tastefulness. Past examples include Roman
Polanski's Babysitting Service and Coach [Digger] Phelps:
Oxymoron or Just Moron?
Middlebury.
After their baccalaureate session, February grads at
this Division III Vermont school ski or snowboard down one of 15
trails at the college-owned ski area to the base, where their
graduation photo is taken. Middlebury also has more than 24
miles of cross-country ski trails, several of which wend their
way past poet Robert Frost's old cabin.
