Elenore Pepper, sometimes listed as Eleanore Pepper and Eleanor Pepper (November 14, 1924 - December 8, 2006) was an American

field hockey Field hockey (or simply referred to as hockey in some countries where ice hockey is not popular) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalk ...

player who played at the center forward position. Pepper attended

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(later renamed

Arcadia University Arcadia University is a private university in Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania, with a Glenside mailing address. The university enrolls approximately 3,200 undergraduate, master's, and doctoral students. The 94-acre (380,000 m2) Glenside cam ...

) in

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. She starred on the school's field hockey team in from 1942 to 1945, and was named to the 1945 College All-Star team. She also played on the school's basketball, tennis, softball, and riflery teams. She played for the U.S. national field hockey team on multiple occasions between 1946 and 1963. In 1988, she became one of the charter inductees into the

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. She was also inducted into the Arcadia University Athletic Hall of Fame in 2013.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pepper, Eleanore American female field hockey players 1924 births 2006 deaths 20th-century American sportswomen Arcadia University alumni