University B has disappeared from premier grade rugby these days but 50 years ago it had quite a team.
Most of those players are back in Dunedin this weekend to celebrate the day they rolled Southern, which was the top club team of the day.
The 1973 University B team had a bunch of mostly unheralded lads straight out of high school, who overcame a team which included All Blacks Laurie Mains, Gary Seear and Lindsay Clark.
The Bs had a couple of notable names as well.
Outside back Kit Fawcett toured South Africa with the All Blacks in 1976 and played two tests. He also represented both Otago and Waikato.
And John Wright, who left rugby behind and forged an impressive cricket career for New Zealand opening the batting alongside Bruce Edgar, was a wiry second five back then.
Fawcett and Wright and 13 of their old team-mates and their coach John Barsby are having a reunion in the city this weekend.
Darryl Work played for the Bs on and off that season.
Work played most of his rugby for the As but played a starring role for the Bs in the 22-16 win against the star-studded Southern.
Work, who played four games for Otago, scored two tries in the game, including an injury time intercept which he ran in from halfway.
Strangely, with the passage of time, the length of the try has not doubled.
"It was good enough getting an intercept off Laurie Mains, so halfway is just fine," Work quipped.
"I don’t remember a hell of a lot about the game. It was one of those things that happened at the time, but in the last year or so Kit has got us all back together and said we should celebrate it and share a few stories."
The team met up at the University Oval last night where they swapped stories, had a few drinks and posed for a team photograph.
Hopefully no-one had a hole in their pants like the bloke two from the left in the bottom row.
The gang is meeting up for lunch today and plan to attend the Highlanders game against the Fijian Drua at Forsyth Barr Stadium.
Tomorrow they have some golf planned.
