Foot Ball Practice.

The work of the eleven yesterday was sharp and steady. Gilman and Phillips did some beautiful passes and long throws to the half backs. After eleven, the of the latter and the University team began to teach the '88 men how to play. The Freshmen team, as it practiced yesterday, showed some very good material, the men being well built as a rule, and not light. They were : Porter, full back ; Fargo and Holden, half backs ; Osgood, quarter back ; and Balch, Brancroft, Woodman, Churchill, Fuller, Purdon, Homans and Thomas, rushers. There was one extra man to make up for the supposed weakness. The ball was kept at the freshmen end of the field most of the time, and good rushes by the eleven and poor tackling by the Freshmen enabled the University team to score several touch-downs. However, the play of '88 was good at times, that of Osgood, Woodman and Holden being the best. The chief trouble with the Freshmen was their inability to tackle readily and bad fumbling of the ball by the backs. They blocked fairly well got down after it in good shape, but failed to close in quickly enough on the man of the opposite side who caught or picked up the ball. Sufficient it is to say that '88 has good material, which ought to be developed with practice into an eleven which shall give a creditable account of itself in the games to come.