FOOTBALL.

Evening Star, Issue 3921, 17 September 1875, Page 3

FOOTBALL.

To the Editor.

SIR, —It may interest some of your readers to know that the team which is relied on to uphold the honor of Otago in the forthcoming football match is working well, and that there is every prospect of our Northern friends being defeated on the 23rd. Our men are at a disadvantage on account of the Rugby Union rules haying been chosen as those by which the match is to be played. Only two or three of the team have played under these rules, and it is probable that the Aucklanders will score through the mistakes made by our men. rp^ e rule* used in Dunedin have been the Asso ns tiou and the Melbourne by the Dunedin -3 § Union Clubs respectively, and to anyone quainter! with the game it must be appar that this fact will go strongly against the Otago men. Individually, the members of the team have been practising assiduously, and two or three of the most enthusiastic—such as Cleycrdon aud M'Kinnon—have gone into training and dieting in a truly commendable way. _ It is to be regretted that some of our best players have been left rut of the team. I need only meotion the names of Messrs Alston, Ireland, Cowie (Union Club), Atkinson, and Bakewell, to show that this statement iscor ect. The team has only played together once, and the match which is to take place to-morrow will be the la-t opportunity they will have of practising in a body. A facetious player says he has arranged for the attendance of a well known surgeon on Wednesday next; but ot course this is only w’hat Anthony Trollope calls “blow.” —I am, &c. , Drop' Kick. Caledonian Grounds,' Sept. 17.