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The Washington Irish are a Division I & III Men’s Rugby Football Club in the Mid-Atlantic Rugby Football Club.
The Beginnings… and The Now

The idea for the Washington Irish RFC arose at a match fixture against the Richmond Area Touring Side (the RATS) in the Fall of 1979. The match secretary of the American University Rugby Football Club was John Adams. As the match secretary, he had scheduled two sides against the RATS in Richmond. When the cars arrived, they didn’t have enough players to play two sides. So on the way back to DC, and with the help of a few traveling beverages, discussions began on setting up a new men’s club in DC that was independent of American University. Hence, the idea was hatched.

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