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William Angwin (footballer)

Australian footballer (1891-1963)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 29, 2024
Entity authorityQ8004462 ↗
Source-derived summary

William Charles Angwin (13 March 1891 – 4 August 1963) was an Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Angwin played three games for Melbourne early in the 1913 VFL season before switching to St Kilda later in the season, playing six games and kicking one goal in the year and a half he was at the club. The one goal that Angwin kicked for his career was the winning goal in a match against Essendon. Angwin was a former Port Melbourne Railway United player who also played in Western Australia before his VFL career.

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“William Angwin (footballer)” enters the record as australian footballer (1891-1963). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what William, Angwin and footballer can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1891, 1963, 1913—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1891-03-13. Its strongest next move is a source search built around William, Angwin and footballer.
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“William Angwin (footballer)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, William, Angwin and footballer provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 29, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q8004462. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1891, 1963 and 1913.

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This entry incorporates text from “William Angwin (footballer)” 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.