Herald correspondent Philip Trevor was right about Nepia, but he could not have been more wrong about the team.
"It is a great team, but still it ought not to be invincible," he wrote after the first test.
But they were invincible. By the time the tour ended in early 1925 they had defeated all of their 32 opponents including test matches against Ireland, England, Wales and France - scoring 838 points to only 116 against.
Especially sweet was righting the only blot on the Originals' record of 1906 with a 19-0 thrashing of Wales.
As great as the Originals of 1906 were, it was this team - the Invincibles - that set the benchmark every All Black aspires to and they are our New Zealanders of the Year for 1925.
