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1984–85 John Player Cup

Rugby cup

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 8, 2025
Entity authorityQ22098008 ↗
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The 1984–85 John Player Cup was the 14th edition of England's premier rugby union club competition at the time. Bath won the competition for the second consecutive year defeating London Welsh in the final. The event was sponsored by John Player cigarettes and the final was held at Twickenham Stadium.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1984–85 John Player Cup” as rugby cup. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1984—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where John, Player and Rugby can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as rugby cup. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 8, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q22098008. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1984.

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This entry incorporates text from “1984–85 John Player Cup” 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.