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Potomac Athletic Club RFC

rugby team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ7235040 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Potomac Athletic Club Rugby Team (PAC Rugby) of Washington, D.C. was a rugby union club based in Washington, D.C. PAC was one of the founding members of the now-defunct Super League. PAC Rugby won the USA Men's Division 1 National Championship in 1995. Multiple PAC Rugby players were selected to play for national, and regional representative sides.

In the fall of 2014, the Potomac Athletic Club merged with the Maryland Exiles, forming the Potomac Exiles.

The Potomac Athletic Club's legacy continues through PAC Youth Rugby.

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The public source identifies “Potomac Athletic Club RFC” as rugby team. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Potomac, Athletic and Club.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Potomac, Athletic and Club providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7235040. The first chronological checks are 1995 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Potomac Athletic Club RFC” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.