Man-of-the-moment Jamie Roberts gets involved for Cambridge early on, but his pass out wide to the man on the wing comes up short.

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Referee Greg Garner blows the whistle to begin the 134th Varsity match, as Cambridge kick off hoping to end a run of five straight defeats.

The teams are out, and we're having a moment's silence to remember the 55 Blues who died in the First World War and a rendition of the national anthem.

A wee reminder, as we race towards kick-off, that you can not only watch today's match live on BBC Two, but also listen to radio commentary on BBC Radio Oxford and BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.

If you look at the Cambridge University line-up, you'd be forgiven for thinking they had two Wales stars on their team.

But the Mike Phillips on the light blues' bench is not the Racing 92 scrum-half, but a second-year medicine student at Emmanuel College who is their back-up centre.

He could join Jamie Roberts in the centres later in the game - a man who sat down with Scrum V to look forward to the match.

Don Stevens will captain Cambridge University from his favourite position of scrum-half having featured at number 10 in the last two Varsity Matches.

The 28-year-old will be hoping it's third time lucky for him at Twickenham, after lasting only 30 minutes in 2013 before dislocating his shoulder, and then 42 minutes last year before rupturing knee ligaments.

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Replacements: Calvert, Poulton, Moros, Erogbogbo, Leonard, Tullie, Phillips, Williams.

Centre Henry Lamont, winning his fourth Blue, will lead Oxford University out at Twickenham in the absence of usual captain George Messum.

Prop Lewis Anderson sets a new Varsity record by gaining his sixth Blue.  

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Replacements: Thornton, Lu, Ball, MacGilchrist, Thomas, Faktor, Abraham, David.

Andrew captained his side against an Oxford team skippered by another Lions star, Stuart Barnes, who had earlier played in conditions pictured below in 1981. It must have been like trying to catch a large snowball...

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Current Gloucester director of rugby David Humphreys also wore dark blue, while former Lions captain Gavin Hastings also wore the light blue of Cambridge before being inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame.  

Down the years there have been some pretty famous players to have donned a shade of blue and feature in the Varsity match.

England and British and Irish Lions fly-half Rob Andrew is one of them when he was a student St John's College, Cambridge, before going on to play for Nottingham, Wasps and Newcastle and is now professional rugby director at the RFU.

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Fun Fact Time: Andrew was also a handy cricketer, playing 17 first-class matches for the university during his studies.  

In homage to Jamie Roberts' inclusion in the Cambridge starting line-up, we'd like to know your favourite sportspeple who have stood out in a team some would consider their inferiors.

Get in touch using #bbcrugby on Twitter.

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Earlier today the Women's Varsity match took place at Twickenham for the first ever time.

Cambridge were dominant, scoring eight tries including hat-tricks from Alice Middleton and Anna Wilson, as they sailed to a 52-0 victory over their Oxford counterparts.

To find out the story of the game, read Adam Williams' excellent report here.

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After 19 long years away, the Varsity match is back on BBC television this afternoon.

You can watch BBC Two's coverage, which is already under way, by clicking the play icon at the top of the page.

Alternatively, there'll also be live BBC Radio Cambridgeshire and BBC Radio Oxford commentary on the match, which you can access via the 'Live Coverage' tab.

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Roberts' side haven't had the best of times during the last few years.

The dark blues of Oxford are seeking to become the first team in the match's history to triumph on six consecutive occasions - quite something given Queen Victoria still had 29 years left on the throne when the game was first played.

But the holders will be without nominated captain George Messum, after his history of art course was deemed ineligible for the match.

Henry Lamont skippers the side in his place - while prop Lewis Anderson has played in all five of Oxford's recent wins.

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For the 134th Oxford v Cambridge Varsity match, rugby union fans across the globe will be able to recognise the familiar figure of Wales and British and Irish Lions star Jamie Roberts.

The 29-year-old starts at centre for the light blues of Cambridge University, where he is studying for a masters in medical science, having already qualified as a doctor.

Some people are just far too good at everything...

In the dark blue corner of Oxford: Stephen Hawking, Erasmus, Sir Roger Bannister, JRR Tolkien, David Cameron, Bill Clinton and Hugh Grant.

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In the light blue corner of Cambridge University: Stephen Hawking (he's a smart guy), Charles Darwin, James Watson, Francis Crick, William Wilberforce, Jeremy Paxman and Stephen Fry. 

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That barely scratches the surface of the illustrious alumni of both universities, a backdrop of history any sporting representatives has to deal with.

And today at Twickenham, there'll be another familiar face on show as the two stalwarts of world academia clash.