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Joe Bachmaier

American football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ98323516 ↗
Source-derived summary

Joseph William Bachmaier (March 11, 1895 – January 14, 1974) was an American football player. A native of Rochester, New York, he played professional football as a center, guard, tackle, and end for the Rochester Jeffersons in the National Football League (NFL). He appeared in 21 NFL games between the 1920 and 1924 seasons.

Editorial summary

“Joe Bachmaier” enters the record as american football player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bachmaier, American and football can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1895, 1974, 1920, 1924—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1895-03-11. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bachmaier, American and football.
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Why this record matters

“Joe Bachmaier” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bachmaier, American and football provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Jul 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q98323516. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1895, 1974, 1920 and 1924.

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.

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  • Locating cited institutions
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This entry incorporates text from “Joe Bachmaier” 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.