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16-H Monday, 4, U88 The Philadelphia Inquirer PEOPLECOVER STORY Ruth Heller Aucott Joan Moser Joan Edenborn Stiles field hockey stars to be honored Adele Boyd Former By Joe Fite Special la The Inquirer At any level, women's field hockey has never been at a loss for talent in Southeastern Pennsylvania. On Jan. 16, the United States Field Hockey Association will underline that point by honoring 23 women, 18 from the Greater Philadelphia area, as the initial inductees into the US. Field Hockey Hall of Fame at Ursinus College in Collegeville. Four if the inductees, Ruth Heller Aucott, Adele Boyd, Joan Moser and Elenore Pepper, are graduates of Cheltenham High School, and one, Joan Edenborn Stiles of Ambler, is a Springfield High School graduate.

Cheltenham will have more representatives in the hall than any secondary school in the nation. Aucott, Moser and Boyd all played field hockey at Ursinus. Boyd is the The power-rating Elenore Pepper pit boss for Harrah's Marina Hotel Casino in Atlantic City. Stiles, a 1952 Springfield graduate, was a member of the US. team seven times between 1954 and 1963 and was also a member of touring teams in South Africa, England, Australia, Jamaica and the Netherlands.

Stiles was elected to the Temple University Hall of Fame in 1978. The inductees will be honored Jan. 16 at a dinner at Ursinus. The new hall will be in Helfferich Hall on the Ursinus campus. A maximum of five new members a year will be added.

The Philadelphia Soccer Old-timers Association and several area scholastic soccer coaches recently selected the 1987 Philadelphia Area All-Scholastic Soccer Team. Among those named were David Parsha, a senior midfielder from Abington who doubled as the a key to Green Raiders finished 9-1-1 this season "The way it's scheduled now, there are not that many games we can play outside the Central League. We're locked in a nine-game league schedule. "I think it's idiotic with the setup they're proposing. One league would always be represented.

I don't know how you can do it. How can you bulk up your schedule when you're locked into so many league games? Some ot the other leagues can play almost anybody in nonleague games they want. We can't." Who would have made the state playoffs last year? According to a study done by the PIAA using the Saylor System, only one team from District 1 would have earned a playoff berth in 1987. C.B. West would have represented Region I in the Class AAAA playoffs.

Here are the other mythical 1987 PIAA playoff qualifiers: Class AAAA. Region II: Cedar Cliff (12-1, District 3). Region III: Pittsburgh Brashear (11-0, District 8). Region IV: North Hills (13-0, District 7). Class AAA.

Region Berwick (10-2, District 4). Region II: Bishop McDevitt of Harrisburg (11-2, District 3). Region III: Pittsburgh Perry (9-2, District 8). Region IV: Mount Pleasant (10-1, District 7). Class AA.

Region Lakeland (130, District 2). Region II: Montoursville Jamaica. As the field hockey coach at Ursinus, Boyd has led the Bears to 10 NCAA Division I top-20 finishes and two appearances in NCAA title games. Boyd is a member of the Ursinus College Hall of Fame. Moser, a 1964 Cheltenham graduate, played on the US.

hockey team from 1966 to 1977. As the Softball coach at North Penn High School, Moser directed her teams to 14 Bux-Mont titles in 17 years and three PIAA Class AAA state titles. Aucott, a 1952 Cheltenham graduate, played on the US. team seven times during the 1950s and 1960s. Aucott also played on touring teams in Australia and the Netherlands and has umpired on the local, sectional and national levels.

Pepper graduated from Cheltenham in 1942 and played on the US. team six times between 1947 and 1963. She is a system is But Pettine sees a potential problem with such a point system. His C.B. West team is scheduled to play a nonleague game next season against Lansdale Catholic, a perennially strong Class AAA team.

Should the Bucks defeat Lansdale Catholic, they will receive only seven Saylor System points rather than the eight they would get for whipping an inferior Class AAAA team. "They could have a better program than a bigger school," Pettine said of Lansdale Catholic. Among the three other power-rating proposals that the Board of Control is to consider Jan. 30 is the Modified Gardner Point System, which is used by the WPIAL to determine its district-playoff qualifiers. This system is based on a team's won-lost record and its opponents' won-lost records.

"With the Saylor System, there's an injustice to that, if in a league schedule, a Quad-A team has to play a Triple-A team," Gallagher said. Would big schools that do not play in powerful leagues be cheated out of playoff berths because they would be unable to muster enough power-rating points against the league's weak sisters? Ridley coach Joe McNicholas thinks so. "The teams that are in the power leagues will always go. The other teams don't," said McNicholas, whose placekicker for the Galloping Ghosts' football team; Mike Brown, a senior midfielder from William Tennent; Anthony Daniele, a senior forward from Archbishop Wood, and Tom Martin, a senior forward from Central Bucks East. The Penn State Ogontz Campus men's basketball team is off to a 6-1 start and has received significant contributions from four area sophomores.

Mike Giuliani, a graduate of Bishop McDevitt, is averaging 28.7 points per game and 12.8 rebounds. Kevin Morris, a graduate from William Tennent, is averaging 15.8 points and 10.8 rebounds per game; Dave Dry-den, an Archbishop Wood graduate, is averaging 10 points and 7.8 rebounds a game, and Scott Ceniccola, who was a teammate of Dryden at Wood, is averaging 8.4 points and 5 assists per game. the plan (12-1, District 4). Region III: Reynolds (11-1, District 10). Region IV: Aliquippa (12-1, District 7).

Class A. Region Mahanoy Area (94, District 11). Region Camp Hill (10-1, District 3). Region HI: Bishop Guilfoyle (130, District 6). Region IV: Conneaut Valley (100-1, District 10).

With only 16 qualifiers, some good teams would be left out of the playoffs. Why is the PIAA going through with this playoff proposal if it knows it would have to deal with angry fans of teams that did not make it? Football is the only boys' sport besides rifle and indoor track that does not have PIAA playoffs, and the PIAA believes that it has developed a feasible state playoff plan, Werner said. Besides, he said, this is a state with a rich football heritage, and fans would love to see which team really is the best in the state. Take last season. North Hills finished 130 and won the WPIAL Class AAAA championship.

C.B. West finished 11-0 and was voted in three different newspaper polls as the No. 1 team in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Imagine a state-title game between the two teams before a sellout crowd of 21,000 at Hershey Stadium. "People told me that they would have loved to see a game between C.B.

West and North Hills and they have no connection with either one of them," Gallagher said. Sports people Ursinus field hockey coach, and Moser coaches the Bears' Softball team. Pepper played at Beaver College, and Stiles played for Temple University. Membership in the Hall of Fame is based on the accumulation of a minimum of 21 points awarded for membership on the U.S. First or Reserve teams, an IFWHA Conference team, a touring team, a captaincy, membership on the Elite Squad, an Olympic Team or a World Cup team.

A player must be out of competition for at least five years for consideration. Boyd, a 1949 Cheltenham graduate, played on the U.S. national team from 1959 to 1966. She also played on touring teams in England, West Germany and year sabbatical from his position as principal at Central Bucks East, Gallagher was involved with one of the area's big Thanksgiving Day rivalries C.B. East vs.

C.B. West. "We were concerned in the beginning that we didn't want to disrupt Thanksgiving games, which as a district chairman was something I was interested in," Gallagher said. "Especially with the East-West game." What seems to be the biggest obstacle that must be cleared? Deciding on a power-rating system. The Board of Control was presented in October with a point system that was devised by former Penn State mathematics professor Roger Saylor and has been used for five years by District 3 to determine its playoff qualifiers.

The Saylor System awards four points to a team for each victory and two points for each tie. In addition, four points are given to a team for each Class AAAA opponent, three points for each Class AAA opponent, two points for each Class AA opponent and one point for each Class A opponent. The purpose of Saylor's point system is to weed out the teams that roll to impressive records by pulverizing smaller opponents. The point system also is designed to reward smaller schools that must play a schedule filled with big schools. PLAYOFFS, from Pace 3 would want to be," said Pettine, whose Bucks have a 43-game victory streak the longest of any scholastic football team in the nation.

"Ten years ago, I would have said yes. But when I look at the season now, we're going longer than the major colleges. I think the ideal plan would be to start a week earlier, play 10 games, then have the playoffs." Would the existence of state football playoffs prompt the Catholic League to join the PIAA? Apparently not. "I think there are too many other factors involved," said Pat Manzi, the coach of the Bishop McDevitt football team that has won back-to-back Catholic League championships. "It's not in the near future at all." What would happen to traditional Thanksgiving Day games in the area? Nothing.

According to the PIAA proposal, the first round of the 1988 state playoffs would be played Dec. 2 and 3 more than a week after Thanksgiving. The state championship games would be scheduled for Dec. 9 and 10. "Existing district playoffs would not be impacted or changed," Werner said.

"Thanksgiving Day games would not be affected." That the state playoffs would not wipe out area Thanksgiving Day games pleases Gallagher. Before taking a one-.