Prince Edward welcome St George's College in a drawcard Reunion Day roller-coaster that is the highlight of this weekend's schools sports diary.

The two urbane Harare outfits will do battle in a series of winter activities in the 2016 edition of one of the oldest surviving sporting fixtures in the country.

Records state the event as having been first organised not long after the arrival of white settlers in the late 19th century which resulted in both schools being founded shortly after.

There is only a difference of name and venue with Reunion Day's sister act known as Centenary Day hosted annually by St George's and having already taken place last month.

The Dragons, St George's first XV, are in a vengeful mood as they seek to obliterate the 28-13 defeat they suffered at the hands of their rivals in the corresponding fixture at the Weaver Field rugby pitch.

Mini McDonald, the overall sports master at St George's, hinted his dismay after the game saying he had been seeking nothing short of a win that would have silenced their long-standing adversaries.

Tawanda Jimu, his opposite number, countered saying he wanted to make it a double in their next interface.

Jubilee Field, Prince Edward's much hallowed rugby field, will be the scene of action for the blood-curdling duel pitting the Dragons and the Tigers.

According to a brief announcement on the PE notice board outlining this weekend's sporting activity:

"Reunion Day (All sports @ Prince Edward). Rugby @ 2pm."

That will mean almost a dozen more disciplines spread across all age groups ensuring the grass around the vast Prince Edward complex will not grow an inch during the three-day fiesta that starts today (1 July) and ends on Sunday.

Hospital Field and the two Princess Fields (Lower and Upper) will play host to all the soccer matches while Jubilee, Rhodes and Chapel Fields will stage the rugby clashes.

As usual, Avenues Field will be the battleground for hockey adjacent as it is to the volleyball court where the two belligerents will also cross swords.

Not to be left out are the squash and tennis courts as with the Beit Hall whose walls will house the table tennis and badminton contests.

Karate, judo and kickboxing are likely earmarked for the John Bredenkamp Computer Centre auditorium.

Top in the gallery of interesting sports statistics concerning the two schools is the fact that, between them, they constitute a significant number of the country's best junior sportsmen. It has been rare, because of their strict adherence and unwavering dedication to high performance coupled with sound sporting values, for any national youth team not to have in its ranks one or two players from either or both of the schools.

As such fixtures between Prince Edward and St George's are always a spectacle.

The scorecard in their last meeting at St George's was evenly balanced after St George's won hockey and squash, PE took rugby and volleyball while they settled for draws in soccer and chess.