Twenty-five years on, members of the Christchurch Boys’ High School first XV of 1981, and their coach, reunited at Straven Road yesterday on the occasion of the annual School versus Christ’s College rugby match. The outcome yesterday was the same as It was in 1961 — a win for Boys’ High School. However, 25 years ago the result was much closer, Doug Johnston, the captain, scoring the winning try close to fulltime, in spite of a head injury suffered a few minutes earlier.
FRONT (from left): Arthur Bradbury, Pat Harrow, Doug Johnston (captain), Terry Mehrtens, Ken Hill, Bill Harrison. BACK (from left): Kerry Thacker, Don Mather, David Dearsley, Barry Mabin, Martin Collins, Lance Woodham, Ross Grenfell, Vernon Wilkinson (coach).
Johnston and Mehrtens both played later as fiveeighths for Canterbury, Mehrtens making a remarkable come-back in 1976 after a nine-year break from first-class rugby. Mather played for Hawke’s Bay, Harrison for Mid-Canterbury, and Mclntosh, who is In Singapore, represented both Otago and Canterbury.
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