Decades-old rivalries played out on the sports field yesterday as about 3500 students took part in College Sports Day at Logan Park.
The day is billed as a perfect and wholesome opportunity to form friendships with fellow college residents, but a little bit of inter-college competition is always present.
That rivalry was evident before the games kicked off as the different colleges chanted, with some of them — which can not be repeated here — directed at opposition colleges.
University sports and facilities Sam Sinclair said sports were a "good binding agent" and a healthy alternative to some of the other events during O-Week.
And while the focus was on having fun, there was still "absolutely" an element of "good, healthy" inter-college rivalry.
Typically the colleges closest to each other were the fiercest competitors and some of the rivalries went back decades.
This included St Margaret’s, Studholme and Salmond colleges whose rivalries dated back to when they were female-only colleges.
The event had been held annually for almost 20 years. Students yesterday played football, volleyball, netball and touch rugby.
Inter-college sports co-ordinator Sophie Ehlers said the day was also a way of introducing college residents to inter-college sports competitions, which were held later in the year.