With 10 wins from as many games Nazareth won the Lehigh-Northampton League. Fleming said the standard of play could be compared with the standard produced by the Bay's top 1st XV rugby teams.
"Back then Nazareth had a population of 8000 but our grandstand which had 10,000 seats was always packed. It was an amazing atmosphere and a great experience," Fleming recalled.
"In addition to our League games we had two traditional ones against more fancied rivals. The first was against Governor Mifflin, who we should never have beaten, at the start of the season and we won 35-0. The second was against Wilson from New Jersey and we won 20-6.
"That Wilson game was on Thanksgiving Day. Straight after the game we jumped on the bus in our playing gear and they had a ticker tape parade for us when we got back to Nazareth ... the whole town went mad."
Nazareth's closest game was a 21-13 victory against Parkland and its biggest victory was 46-6 recorded against East Stroudsburg. The team was coached by Jim Evanko.
Now 69 and a father of three and grandfather of seven, Fleming, didn't attend last weekend's induction as he couldn't justify such a lengthy trip for a one-night function so soon after his visit in May last year. This is what he wrote in his apology:
"I have decided that I will not be attending the team induction in April. It has been a very hard decision to make but I really cannot justify the expense so soon after my last visit. I will always treasure the way you accepted the dumb Kiwi who didn't know a tight end or a linebacker from a bar of soap. You made me feel part of the team and the value and longevity of our friendships was really brought home to me when so many of you [20] made the effort to catch up with me in Nazareth last May.
"My only regret from my time in the team was that I didn't make the effort to teach you my form of football, rugby! From tighthead prop to No 8 and centre three quarter I could have made you into a dream XV that probably would also have been undefeated and untied ... you were all so very skilled.
"Thank you both once again for the invitation and the memories and please pass on my regards and congratulations to all my teammates who make it to the induction."
The HBRFU president during the 2008, '9 and '10 seasons and a director on the board since 2011, Fleming, pointed out the team's star quarterback was Tom Acker.
"My biggest claim to fame was allowing Tom to cheat off my chemistry exams so he could get the grades to allow him to keep playing American football," Fleming quipped.
"It was one of those memorable years for the school because the basketball and wrestling teams were also very strong."
Fleming said the team's play book was almost 70 pages long.
"It was hard for me to learn because of all the new terms but I understood it by the end of the season. When I asked the coaching staff if I could take it back to New Zealand I was told I had to return it because everything was top secret."
One of the biggest events while Fleming was in the United States was the assassination of Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968.
"Very seldom did I see events from outside of the United States make the front page of the local paper. One occasion was when the Wahine sunk in Wellington on April 10, 1968," Fleming said.
Last night he travelled to Wellington to watch the Super Rugby game between the Hurricanes and Sunwolves with one of his sons, former Manawatu Turbos scrum coach Greg Fleming. Greg will start a three-year contract as the forwards coach for the Docomo Red Hurricanes in Osaka in August.
Needless to say he will do well to match his father's unbeaten run in the United States during his contract. His father won't be slow to remind him either.
