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The Freshman Eleven.

It may be of some interest to know on what school teams the men who will make up the freshmen eleven this afternoon have played. One of the men never played foot-ball before, but of the other ten, nine have played on school teams in eastern New England, five being on teams in the two interscholastic leagues. The individual men, and the teams on which they played, are as follows: Dibblee, who will play left end, was a member of the Brown and Nichols eleven, last year's champions of the Junior League; Marston left tackle, never played foot-ball before; Worden, left gaurd, played on the St. Marks eleven; Faxon, centre, played on the Belmont School team; Rice, right guard, and Lewis, right tackle, were both on last year's Noble's eleven; Clark, right end, played end on the champion Hopkinson's team; Borden, quarter-back, was on the Fall River High School eleven; Arnold and Booth played at Exeter, and Gouterman, full-back, played somewhere in the west.

The eleven is not yet fully decided upon by any means, but the make-up tomorrow will be substantially as indicated above, though Hamlin may very possibly play full-back. At present the daily practice consists of work against the second eleven under the coaching of F. S. Newell, M. S. Changes in the make-up are constantly being made, and no one can at present be sure of his position on the team.

The men are playing a very uneven game, some times doing really good work but the next moment showing that it is impossible to depend upon them. Their chief faults are, in the line, a tendency to "scrap" so much that they become unsteady on their feet, are easily blocked off, cannot block-off themselves and lose sight of the ball. The guards especially seem to think that they are on the field chiefly to maul all the men opposite them. The chief faults of the backs are, first, a tendency to get separated when running, so that all interference is lost, and, second, weakness in defensive play, especially in tackling. In fact the whole team shows a remarkable inability to tackle cleanly and low.

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