Five of the Varsity players are just back from their NZ Universities tour to Malaysia, Hong Kong and Japan. And come November 14 those who can raise about $5000 each are off for five games in England.

Varsity wears Cambridge blue just like Cambridge University, one of their opponents. To be playing them is a prize fixture. Varsity will also play the famous Loughborough University, who played in Palmerston North three years ago, Sale Academy (Manchester), Cardiff University and Harper Adams University, an agricultural college in Birmingham.

It all came from Varsity coach Geoff Thompson saying one day: "Why don't we tour somewhere?" Varsity went to Australia in 1981 and South Africa in 2003.