Worked with Bing Dawson, Bob Watkins, Klaus Mendenhall and J.D. Dahlen to strengthen club equipment, training and sports medicine resources.
The career story
The early years, back in view
The photographs, match reports and club memories behind an inaugural OMBAC Rugby Hall of Fame honouree.

Career résumé
Explore the chapters of a rugby life.
Served as a Marine Corps lieutenant, became a CPA, and worked as an assistant US attorney. His obituary also records accounting study at SDSU, a USD law degree and later work in private practice and the US Trustee’s office.
Earned a BS at UC Berkeley in 1962; his family obituary identifies him as a member of the Cal rugby squad.
Named with Bing Dawson, Dick Russell and Bob Watkins as one of the prior season’s All-Southern California selections returning to the Aztec team.
Named in San Diego State’s rugby squad photograph in the 1966 Del Sudoeste yearbook, fourth from the left in the back row. The team was Southern California league runner-up.
Contemporary Daily Aztec reports credit Boyl with a try against San Fernando Valley State and six points in the 22–9 win over UC Riverside.
The 1967 Del Sudoeste lists Boyl among the Aztec Rugby Club’s leaders, alongside Dick Russell, Ron Geske, Bing Dawson and Dave Peterson. Its team caption identifies him fifth from the left in the middle row.
Played rear row for San Diego State. The 31 March 1967 Daily Aztec identifies Pat “Rags” Boyl and credits him with the only try in a 3–0 victory over Occidental at Aztec Bowl.
In his first-person 2010 Berkeley alumni update, Boyl describes managing OMBAC through six national championships during 1987–1996.
Named among the six inaugural OMBAC Rugby Hall of Fame inductees for the club’s 60th Anniversary celebration.
Photographs & contemporary documents




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