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1911–12 Bradford City A.F.C. season

Bradford City A.F.C. 1911–12 football season

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 16, 2022
Entity authorityQ96360587 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1911–12 Bradford City A.F.C. season was the ninth in the club's history.

The club finished 11th in Division One, and reached the 4th round of the FA Cup, losing to Barnsley after four games.

Sources

Frost, Terry (1988). Bradford City A Complete Record 1903-1988. Breedon Books Sport. ISBN 0-907969-38-0.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1911–12 Bradford City A.F.C. season” as bradford City A.F.C. 1911–12 football season. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1911, 1988, 1903—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Bradford, City and season can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as bradford City A.F.C. 1911–12 football season. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 16, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q96360587. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1911, 1988 and 1903.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “1911–12 Bradford City A.F.C. season”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow 1911–12 Bradford City A.F.C. season primary sources, 1911–12 Bradford City A.F.C. season archive and Bradford research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “1911–12 Bradford City A.F.C. season”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “1911–12 Bradford City A.F.C. season” 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.