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This page covers information related to college division competition in 1987.

1987 was the first year there was a Women's Division at the College Championships, and saw the introduction of the College Rankings.

 

  
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  College Championships  
  Date May 22 - 24  
  Location State College, PA  
  Open (14) Chabot CC  
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The 1987 UPA College Championships took place in State College, PA.

This was the first year there was a Women's Division at the event.

 

  
 
     

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  • About the teams (not yet available)
  • Full results (not yet available)
Standing School Region
1 Chabot CC West
2 California-Santa Barbara West
3T Cal Poly-SLO West
3T Cornell Northeast
5T SW Missouri State Central
5T Texas South
7T Georgia Tech South
7T SUNY-Purchase Northeast
9T Carnegie Mellon Mid-Atlantic
9T Princeton Mid-Atlantic
11T Kansas Central
11T Michigan Central
13T East Carolina Mid-Atlantic
13T Vermont Northeast

Kansas won the Team Spirit Award for Pool A, and Cal Poly-SLO won in Pool B.  This award was voted on after pool play.  

  

 

 
1987 College Open Division Final:
 
Chabot Community College   vs
 		 California-
Santa Barbara
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  • About the teams (not yet available)
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Standing School Region
1 Kansas Central
2 California-Davis West
3 Humboldt State West
4 Massachusetts Northeast
5 Cornell Northeast
6 Earlham Central
7 Vermont Northeast

Earlham and Vermont tied for the Team Spirit Award. 

  

 

 
1987 College Women's Division Final:
 
Kansas
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 		 California-
Davis
 
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This section will contain links to internal and external articles related to the event.

There is a recap of this event in the UPA Newsletter following the event, and it will be made available after it is scanned.

    
 
 
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Teams were from one of 5 regions: Northeast (N); Mid-Atlantic (M); South (S); Central (C); West (W).
 
Information about events prior to the championship is not yet available.

If you have any other information regarding 1987 College Regionals, please contact archives@usaultimate.org.
 
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Information about events prior to the championship is not yet available.
 
If you have any other information regarding 1987 College Sectionals, please contact archives@usaultimate.org.
 

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Although there was not yet a formalized regular season, many teams participated in events prior to the series.
 

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1987 saw the inception of the UPA College Rankings.  Developed by Sholom Simon, the rankings utilized a computer algorithm based loosely on a formula borrowed from the U.S Chess Federation.  The rankings were run 10 times during the season, with the final rankings computed May 30, 1987 and printed in the June 1987 UPA Newsletter.  
 
Below are the final rankings for the 1987 season run after the College Championships.
 
  Open Division   Women's Division  
 
Rank Team PR W L Win %
1 Chabot CC 1961 11 0 1.000
2 California-Santa Barbara 1854 12 1 0.923
3 Cornell 1807 27 4 0.871
4 Cal Poly-SLO 1766 11 6 0.647
5 SW Missouri State 1704 11 2 0.846
6 Texas 1647 6 3 0.667
7 SUNY-Purchase 1636 25 7 0.781
8 Columbia 1617 15 8 0.652
9 Stanford 1601 2 3 0.400
10 Princeton 1598 20 8 0.714
11 Vermont 1550 12 8 0.600
12 Carnegie-Mellon 1540 12 8 0.600
13 Georgia Tech 1538 13 5 0.722
14 Kansas 1523 9 6 0.600
15 Oregon 1518 7 4 0.636
16 Wesleyan 1502 12 6 0.667
17 Hampshire 1497 4 4 0.500
18 SUNY-Binghamton 1466 13 7 0.650
19 Michigan 1460 10 6 0.625
20 East Carolina 1455 10 9 0.526
21 Humboldt State 1398 3 2 0.600
22 Wisconsin 1393 7 2 0.778
23 Lehigh 1383 12 8 0.600
24 California-Santa Cruz 1377 1 3 0.250
25 Massachusetts 1371 2 5 0.286
26 Wake Forest 1314 3 0 1.000
27 MIT 1313 5 8 0.385
28 Boston University 1312 4 5 0.444
29 California-Davis 1305 1 4 0.200
30 California-Irvine 1299 2 2 0.500
31 Florida State 1294 2 2 0.500
32 Illinois 1290 11 5 0.688
33 Pennsylvania 1278 8 13 0.381
34 Syracuse 1273 1 6 0.143
35 UCLA 1273 3 2 0.600
36 Alabama-Tuscaloosa 1271 2 1 0.667
37 Virginia 1269 8 9 0.471
38 California-Riverside 1266 2 2 0.500
39 Earlham 1260 4 3 0.571
40 Winona State 1254 3 2 0.600
41 Penn State 1251 5 12 0.294
42 Carleton College 1227 4 4 0.500
43 Missouri 1223 2 3 0.400
44 Kutztown 1222 2 3 0.400
45 Williams 1219 2 5 0.286
46 Dartmouth 1186 0 3 0.000
47 Oregon State 1175 1 3 0.250
48 Duke 1174 4 4 0.500
49 SUNY-Albany 1162 2 6 0.250
50 Virginia Tech 1160 3 4 0.429
51 Ohio State 1158 2 4 0.333
52 SUNY-Stony Brook 1157 1 10 0.091
53 California-San Diego 1151 1 5 0.167
54 San Diego State 1137 1 3 0.250
55 Ball State 1135 4 2 0.667
56 Pitzer 1126 1 3 0.250
57 Lafayette 1112 1 1 0.500
58 Minnesota 1107 1 3 0.250
59 Brown 1106 1 11 0.083
60 Oberlin 1094 1 2 0.333
61 Rutgers 1090 0 3 0.000
62 Miami (Ohio) 1076 3 3 0.500
63 Bucknell 1071 2 9 0.182
64 Chicago 1071 1 4 0.200
65 SouthernIllinois 1040 1 1 0.500
66 Appalachian State 1016 1 2 0.333
67 Georgia 1016 0 4 0.000
68 Johns Hopkins 1008 1 0 1.000
69 Washington University 1004 1 7 0.125
70 Drew 1001 0 4 0.000
71 Swarthmore 999 0 1 0.000
72 Colorado 999 0 1 0.000
73 Alabama-Birmingham 998 0 1 0.000
74 Texas A & M 998 0 1 0.000
75 South Carolina 998 0 1 0.000
76 William & Mary 996 0 1 0.000
77 Kent State 996 0 1 0.000
78 Indiana 994 0 1 0.000
79 SUNY-Brockport 994 0 2 0.000
80 Saint Louis 991 0 4 0.000
81 Colgate 991 0 2 0.000
82 Illinois State 990 0 2 0.000
83 Evergreen 989 0 3 0.000
84 Haverford 988 0 3 0.000
85 Ohio University 984 0 4 0.000
86 North Carolina State 983 1 4 0.200
87 Minnesota-Duluth 975 0 4 0.000
88 Towson 974 0 4 0.000
89 Yale 973 0 5 0.000
90 Purdue 968 0 4 0.000
91 North Carolina-Wilmington 963 0 3 0.000
 

 

Rankings were not run for the Women's division until 1989.

  
  
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