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Battalion Staff
HOUSTON — Wednesday
morning the marquis at the
Astrodome read “High School
football playof f game:Stratford
vs. Westbury (i p.m."
Friday morning the sign read
“AliefElsik. vs. Westbury 6 p.m.”
But Friday alternoou, two
hours before the bi-district play-
|fgame,eight empty buses jjuI-
ed out of the F.lsik High Sc hool
hrking lot. The football players
4’ere still at die school,'the pep
[squad was gossiping in the halls,
the cheerleaders had been sent
Bonie.ancl members of the band
were going to a park to play foot-
’ 11.
A court order issued Friday
lafternoon thrust Stratford into
Ee playoffs, thereby ending
Jl lsik’s playoff hopes.
In the ninth week of the sea-
kon, the University I nterscholas-
ffi: League ruled Stratford line
backer David Niles ineligible for
Hegedly breaking a I’ll, re-
Bdency rule. The UIL rule
plates that a student may live
nth,a guardian and participate
fit school activities if he formally
lind legally records that guar-
Idianship.
A 12-year resident of the
spring Branch area, Niles
moved to California in the
spring to live with his mother.
However, he re-enrolled at
Stratford in the fall, and is now
living with family friends who
had been named legal guar
dians.
But the UIL said no dice, dec-
laring Niles ineligible and order
ing Stratford, which clinched a
playoff berth during the final
week of the season, to forfeit
seven victories in which Niles
had played. That decision
vaulted F.lsik into the playoffs —
or so the Rams thought.
The Rams had finished third
behind Memorial and Stratford
in the 17-5A race with a 4-3 dis
trict record.
However, Niles’ lawyer, Lew
W. Harpold of Hofheinz and
Harpold, went to federal court
Friday morning to get a tempor
ary stay which would allow Niles
to play.
In that hearing, U.S District
Judge George E. Cire ruled
against the UIL. and the 17-5A
Executive Committee, saying
the organizations did not have
the power to keep Niles from
playing — thereby putting the
Spartans back into the playoffs.
Cire said Niles would suffer “im
mediate and irreparable dam
age” if Stratford was kept out of
the bi-district contest.
The UIL then sought to have
the entire eligibility question re
solved through other federal
court channels, but gave up at
3:30 Friday afternoon and sent
word to Stratford to go ahead
and play.
Elsik Principal Bobby Porter
said he had received word on
Thursday that the Rams would
play Westbury. Porter said Elsik
students were excited that their
Rams — who at one time had
been one of the worst teams in
Texas, losing 22 straight games
during the 1980-81 seasons —
finally made a mark in the dis
trict race.
But the federal court order
took the excitement out of the
halls of Elsik. The students, who
had a holiday from school Fri
day, waited outside the school
and close to their radios to hear
See SPARTANS page 12
United Press International
Second-place teams, allowed
into the playoffs for the first
time this year, are taking full
advantage of the opportunity,
with more than half of the Class
5A runners-up advancing to the
second round at the expense of a
district champion.
In the first weekend of high
school playoffs, only 12 of 32
district champions were victo
rious in their games with run
ners-up from adjacent districts.
Seven districts had both of their
teams advance.
Among those who will not be
continuing in the playoffs are
UPI’s No. 6-ranked Fort Worth
Eastern Hills, a 14-12 loser to
Denton; No. 10 Plainview,
which lost 20-15 to San Angelo
Central, and co-No. 10 Brazos-
wood, a 12-10 loser to Austin
LBj.
In the Class 3A and Class 2A,
20 of the 32 district champs in
each division advanced.
None of UPI’s Class 3A Top
Ten teams was defeated, but in
next week’s round, No. 3
McGregor plays No. 5 Dainger-
field and No. 4 Cameron plays
No. 9 Waller.
In the 2As, No. 5 Pottsboro
was upset by Southlake Carroll,
28-25, and No. 9 Deweyville was
beaten by Garrison.
Included in the second-place
teams to advance from Class 5A
were El Paso Bel Air, Euless
Trinity, Fort Worth Western
Hills, Conroe McCullough,
Highland Park and Plano.
In defeating Dallas Kimball
28-20, annual playoff figure Pla
no got 295 yards offense against
the area’s leading defense.
“We knew they had the lead
ing defense in the area,” said
Plano quarterback Paul Davis.
“But we were able to control the
line of scrimmage. That’s what
we wanted to do.”
Highland Park coach Frank
Bevers, whose Scots finished
second in District 9-5A behind
North Mesquite and advance to
the second round with a 17-14
win over Dallas Samuell, said
motivation was a problem, even
in the playoffs.
“I think each time you win a
big game, it’s real thrilling inside
and this is very thrilling,” he
said. “Of course, each team is
different and you’ve got to take
them where they are and try to
get them as far as you can get
them. We’re having to work real
hard to ke^p the heat on our
kids. If we don’t put heat on
them, they don’t play well.”
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