Death from Above - Dan Mazzucco loses his "fire."
Rob Winn (Class of 1999) and Dan Mazzucco (Class of 1998)

I don't remember all the circumstances around this, but we were playing Tufts at Yale. What I don't remember is WHY Dan wanted to throw fire. In any case, Dan went over to flip for shirts and the pull and Tufts suggested "Bear-Ninja-Cowboy." Dan, ever the tactful ambassador, flatly refused. Instead he elected to Ro- Sham and throw Fire. Since you are only allowed to throw it once in your life, Dan had clearly never used it before. This resulted in the famous "Death from Above" incident where Dan threw an upside down fire, causing complete bewilderment amongst the Tufts players.

Monsoon at Yale - another famous Ro-Sham incident. Another time that we were at Yale Cup, it was raining. Not all that unusual for an ultimate tournament, but this was a particularly bad storm. Rain was pouring down, winds were steadily blowing about 20mph - prompting the "Monsoon" description. In a typical show of college ultimate, the pour weather conditions led to turnover after turnover in a game against Yale. After a good hour and a half, the score was tied. At 2-2. Both teams recognized the futility of continuing the game and agreed to have the players on the field Ro-Sham for the game. Dartmouth pulled out a stunning 5-2 victory.

--Rob Winn '99

To make a slight correction to Rob's story... we were roshamming for fields. We weren't even playing against Tufts. We were roshamming tufts to see who would get some field. We actually were playing colombvia, who we beat 13-3.

And it was a best out of 3 rosham, so I still almost won, after throwing death from above.

Then, three weeks later, I did throw my fire, this time against RPI in an elimination game. We were throwing for shirts, and had never lost in green. After soundly defeating Brendan by throwing fire, they never recovered, and we won the game 14-11.

--Dan Mazzucco '98