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Bob Lawrie

Australian football player (1932–1984)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ111443610 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bob Lawrie (1919/1920 – 11 April 1989) was an Australian football player who played who played for the Socceroos 8 times.

Lawrie died on 11 April 1989.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Bob Lawrie” as australian football player (1932–1984). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Lawrie, Australian and football.

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—1919, 1920, 1989—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1932-03-07. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Lawrie, Australian and football providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Bob Lawrie”, the useful work is to connect “australian football player (1932–1984)” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q111443610. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1919, 1920 and 1989.

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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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This entry incorporates text from “Bob Lawrie” 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.