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Mark Bos

Australian rules footballer

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ6766790 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mark Bos (born 28 July 1960) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL) from 1979 to 1989.

Bos made his senior VFL debut during the 1979 VFL season, and playing on the half back flank, won consecutive Carji Greeves Medals for Geelong's Best and Fairest in 1987 and 1988.

He retired at the end of the 1989 VFL season at the relatively young age of 29 to pursue interests beyond football.

References

Mark Bos's playing statistics from AFL Tables

Mark Bos at AustralianFootball.com

Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.

Editorial summary

“Mark Bos” enters the record as australian rules footballer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mark, Australian and rules 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—1960, 1979, 1989, 1987—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1960-07-28. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mark, Australian and rules.
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Why this record matters

“Mark Bos” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Mark, Australian and rules 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 Sep 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6766790. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1960, 1979, 1989 and 1987.

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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This entry incorporates text from “Mark Bos” 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.