LEWIS Anderson has quietly stepped away from the limelight ahead of today’s Varsity Match at Twickenham (2.30), despite being on the verge of becoming the first player to record six victories.

Oxford University are going for an unprecedented six straight wins over Cambridge and victory for the team would further write the 25-year-old’s name into the record books.

Loose-head prop Anderson is already the first player to secure five wins and will equal the record of six appearances which was set by Cambridge’s Herbert George Fuller between 1878-83.

But the DPhil sociology student will, due to regulations, earn his last Blue this year, with post-graduates only allowed to make four appearances.

Three of Anderson’s five Blues have come during his Masters degree and he modestly greets the possibility of winning a sixth.

The former Bexley Grammar School pupil said: “It would be great (to play in all six wins), but I don’t really know what more to say than that.

“Even when it was five last year, it is not about one individual.

“I have been lucky to be in some great teams and it is very hard to reduce a game of rugby to anything to do with individuals.

“It is about the collective.”

Before last year, Oxford had never won more than four Varsity matches in succession.

Victory in 2014 matched Cambridge’s feats of 1972-76, 1980-84 and 1994-98, but never before has either university won six in a row.

Anderson accepts it is a motivational factor, but acknowledges there is an added incentive this year, with Cambridge set to field a fully-fledged international in Wales centre Jamie Roberts.

He said: “With them having Jamie Roberts, I think we would love to say that we were able to beat that side and that is on top of the usual motivational factors.

“There is that huge rivalry and we always raise our game for the Varsity Match.

“Six in a row would be great.”

To Anderson’s right is tight-head prop Ian Williams, who will earn his third and final Blue today.

The 24-year-old Welshman is in his last year of a Masters in literature & arts and says playing at Twickenham is always a special occasion.

He said: “It is unlike anything else.

“As you walk out you take in everything around you and it is very important that you do that.

“It is a massive occasion, the highlight of a lot of players’ careers stepping out in front of that size crowd.

“Nothing compares to it unless you are an international.”