Stickwomen to Play Across the River

The traffic on the Radcliffe Quad will be a little lighter this fall as the 'Cliffe field hockey team moves to greener pastures across the river.

The team will conduct, its practice sessions and play its regular home games on the Harvard field this year, a move bound to make the Quad's touch football fanatics a little happier.

According to Radcliffe athletic director Mary Paget, the Quad is "no longer suitable for organized play" like varsity field hockey.

This year's team, which Paget called "pretty solid," will begin practice October 1 at its new home.

The team will kick off its season with Tufts on October 11, the first of nine matches in this year's full varsity schedule. Last year, the Cliffe played only five games in regular season play. A sixth was rained out.

This year's lineup includes seven returnees, so coach Pippi O'Conner will have to fill only four slots.

O'Conner said yesterday that the team will miss right wing Hillary Walker, Radcliffe's only performer to make last year's All-Northeastern team.

The veteran forward line will include Cathy Agoos at left wing, Maude Wood at left inner, and Ann Baller at right inner. O'Conner will have to fill out, at least tentatively, the rest of the line--center and right wing--in the ten days of practice before the October 11 opener.

O'Conner will be depending on two halfback returnees and one veteran full-back, as well as goal keeper-manager Barbie Matson. She'll have to find one additional halfback and one fullback.

Matson--who performs exceptionally well under pressure and in competition--is expected to be named team captain when the squad meets for the first time next Monday.

O'Conner said yesterday she has "great confidence in all the girls" and is expecting a good season for the squad. She anticipates strongest competition from Princeton, the only school to defeat the 'Cliffe team last year.

The 'Cliffe finished its regular season last year with a 3-1-1 record.

The team's performance in the Northeasterns included one win and two ties.