United Football (pbm "soccer") seasons looking for players

From: wickart@ichips.intel.com (Bill 'Prune' Wickart)

Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1991 18:28:02 +0000

United is a game of postal football invented by Alan Parr et alia in the
United Kingdom.  Bruce Geryk brought it to the USA, where he and Bob Kusumoto
added several innovations to correct playability problems in the original game.
In the summer of 1989, Bob made the game available on the net, inviting 10 teams
to join his United Electronic Football League.
   The game has grown a bit from those original 10 managers and 3 stand-bys.
This fall, the UEFL will enter it's third season, with 26 teams in 3 divisions
(23 of the managers say they plan to return).  The experimental league (EEFL,
playing with new rule proposals) is about to enter its fifth season (faster
pace) with all 12 managers returning.  The Summer league (SEFL, same rules as
UEFL, but runs during the summer when most managers are on vacation) fell flat
when the commissioner had several personal catastrophies soon after the start
of the season; it should come back next year.

Those powers-that-be are looking for more players at most levels.  The UEFL
needs a few replacement managers; if there's enough interest, we may form a
fourth division for novice managers.  The EEFL is stable, but might form a
second division if there is sufficient demand (and if a second commissioner
volunteers).  The SEFL may be gone until next summer, but should re-start then.

If you want to play, send a letter of interest to:

UEFL:	billoj@rpi.edu
EEFL:	bacota@rodan.acs.syr.edu
SEFL:	wickart@ichips.intel.com

If you just want the rules or have any general questions, please write to
me at the SEFL address.  The commissioners can handle this stuff, too, but they
are both quite busy right now, while I'm on sabbatical.

A working knowledge of the real-world football is not required; in fact, it
hampered one manager.  The EEFL commissioner has never played, and needed some
advice on fouls and corner kicks from those of us who have.  Come one, come all.

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