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Peter Agrums

Australian footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ7172473
Source-derived summary

Peter Agrums (born 22 September 1940) is a former Australian rules football player who played eleven games for North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1963 and 1964. He played as a ruckman and was recruited from Golden Point. In 1975, he became the coach of the University of Wollongong football team.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Peter Agrums” is australian footballer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Peter, Agrums and Australian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1940, 1963, 1964, 1975—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1940-09-22. For this dossier, Peter, Agrums and Australian is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “australian footballer” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7172473. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1940, 1963, 1964 and 1975.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. 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

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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This entry incorporates text from Peter Agrums” 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.