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OLD REIGATIANS 12 SARACENS 10 (JOHN PLAYER CUP,
SPECIAL REPORT BY NEIL FISSLER
NOT many clubs in the country can claim to have a 100 per cent record against Exeter and Saracens, but one that can are Old Reigatians. The club formed in 1927, 18 months after Reigate Grammar School switched to rugby from football and until World War Two, membership was only open to old boys of the school.
The club had flirted with the national stage, making three visits to Twickenham to play in the season finale Middlesex Sevens in 1977, 1978 and 1985.
A year after losing to a Heriot ...
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