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Bob Baumhower

American football player (born 1955)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia

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Source revisionSep 12, 2026

Entity authoritySource title only

Source-derived summary

Robert Glenn Baumhower is an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle for the Miami Dolphins in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide under coach Bear Bryant from 1973 to 1976 and professionally for Miami under coach Don Shula. He later became a restaurateur.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Bob Baumhower” as american football player (born 1955). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1973, 1976—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Baumhower, American and football can be independently traced.

Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american football player (born 1955). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 12, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1973 and 1976.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

Best used for

Establishing names and roles
Building a first chronology
Locating cited institutions

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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

Establish the record: confirm the title “Bob Baumhower”, its source revision and the description used here.
Expand the search: follow Bob Baumhower primary sources, Bob Baumhower archive and Baumhower research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Bob Baumhower”?
Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Bob Baumhower” 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.