The Bay Area Pelican Rugby Football Club (RFC), commonly referred to as Pelican Rugby is a men's
rugby
Rugby may refer to:
Sport
* Rugby football in many forms:
** Rugby league: 13 players per side
*** Masters Rugby League
*** Mod league
*** Rugby league nines
*** Rugby league sevens
*** Touch (sport)
*** Wheelchair rugby league
** Rugby union: 1 ...
club in the
Tampa-St. Petersburg Metropolitan Area. The team was founded in
St. Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
,
Florida
Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to ...
in 1977.
The team consists of non-professional players and is sanctioned by USA Rugby. The club is registered with the national governing rugby body
http://membership.usarugby.org/PublicRosterRpt.aspx
/ref> and competes in the Florida Rugby Union
The Florida Rugby Union (FRU) is a Geographical Union (GU) that governs the Florida peninsula for USA Rugby. The Florida Rugby Union has four divisions: Men's, Women's, Collegiate Men's, and Collegiate Women's.
Men's clubs
There are currently nin ...
(FRU) Division 2 and Division 4.
References
External links
Official Site
Pelican U19's
Florida Rugby Union
USA Rugby South
USA Rugby
{{Florida Sports
Sports in St. Petersburg, Florida
Rugby clubs established in 1977
Rugby union teams in Florida
1977 establishments in Florida