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Albert Wood (rugby union)

English rugby union player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 31, 2025
Entity authorityQ4711495 ↗
Source-derived summary

Albert Wood was a rugby union footballer who played in the 1880s. He played at representative level for England, and at club level for Halifax, as a forward, e.g. front row, lock, or back row. Prior to Tuesday 27 August 1895, Halifax was a rugby union club.

Playing career

Albert Wood won a cap for England while at Halifax in 1884 against Ireland.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Albert Wood (rugby union)” is english rugby union player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Albert, Wood and rugby, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1895, 1884—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Albert, Wood and rugby is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “english rugby union player” 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 Mar 31, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4711495. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1895 and 1884.

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This entry incorporates text from “Albert Wood (rugby union)” 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.