'Varsity Football.

The 'varsity practice, on Jarvis yesterday afternoon, was very erratic and on the whole was not very encouraging. There were so many men either laid off from injuries or playing in a lamed condition that the play was anything but quick and full of vim as it should have been. The coaching was done by Cumnock, Cranston, Lee, Crosby and Lathrop, Comnock and Cranston paying special attention to the centre men, Lee to the halves and Crosby to the ends. Perry, L. S. was referee and Crosby '91 umpired. Two thirty minute halves were played, the elevens lining up as follows:

VARSITY. SECOND.

Emmons 1. e. r. e. Foster

Foster 1. e. Bond

Tukey l. t. r. t. Whitten

Upton l. t. r. t. Tukey

Waters l. g. r. g. Pierce

Pierce l. g. r. g. Eddy

Lewis c. c. Brice

Brice c. c. Lewis

Mackie r. g. l. g. Blake

Newell r. t. l. t. Mason

Hallowell r. e. l. e. Collamore

Fairchild g. b. Gage

h. b. Webster

Lee h. b. Gould

Gray h. b. Burgess

Corbett h. b. Oppenheim

Trafford f. b. Fennessy

The play was very uncertain, sometimes the men would work with a good deal of snap and then would show little or no life. The backs of the second eleven repeatedly made good gains through the centre of the first.

There was a great deal of punting done by the second eleven backs and Corbett and Gray got good practice in catching the ball and either running with it or returning it.

Corbett made several good returns and both he and Gray made some long runs after catching the ball.

The eleven lined up slowly and then when the signal was given the men very often left their places before the ball was pot in play, causing much confusion; several times Fairchild had to call the ball down there being no one to pass it to.

The interference of the first eleven was good and many long gains were made around the ends.

Trafford ran with the ball better than usual making several gains through the centre.

Tukey was tried at running with the ball but was so slow in starting that he was always tackled without any gain. Foster played well but several times let go his hold after he had tackled a runner.

Lee took Gray's place in the last part of the game and made some beautiful long runs around the ends but he showed a tendency to leave his interference too soon.

The practice this afternoon will be on Jarvis at 3.30.

HARVARD '95, 14 - HOPKINSON 6.The game the freshman eleven put up against Hopkinson yesterday was a very poor exhibition of football. The line was weak, the backs played and ran loosely, and fumbling of the ball was deplorably frequent. After the first five minutes the team was almost demoralized, and the work was left to a few men. The coach had to urge repeatedly the men to put some snap into the lining up.

The interference of the backs was wretched and their running with a few exceptions was very slow. Often when a man was tackled, he ceased all further effort to advance; and the failure of men to get down in going through the centre was noticeable.

Hopkinson played as they liked through Harvard's guards and around Harvard's left end, and gained five yards or more on every V.

There was a noticeable lack of team play on the part of the Freshman eleven at almost every point. The tackling was very poor. Although the team was much heavier than their opponents yet they seemed thoroughly exhausted at the end of the first half.

The team lined up as follows:

L. e., Richardson; l. t., Booth; l. g., Worden; c., Faxon; r. g., Rice; r. t., Lewis; r. e., Clark; g. b., Borden; g.h. b., Arnold; r. hb., Gontrinan, Scott; f. b., Hamlin.