USFL Calls Off ’86 Season
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NEW YORK — The U.S. Football League, reeling from a $1 damage award in its recent antitrust suit against the NFL, announced today that it will postpone its upcoming fall season and possibly play in 1987.
The league was to have begun its first fall schedule in mid-September with eight teams. The 4-year-old league once numbered 18. The announcement followed a day of meetings in New York with Commissioner Harry Usher and executives of the league’s eight teams.
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