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Cecil Williams (soccer)

Australian soccer player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ119455734 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cecil Williams was an Australian soccer player who played as forward for Cessnock for most of his career and the Australia national team. He played with Leichhardt-Annandale and St George after his time at Cessnock.

International career

Williams played two matches for Australia in a 0–0 draw and a 4–1 loss both to Canada in June 1924.

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The public source identifies “Cecil Williams (soccer)” as australian soccer player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Cecil, Williams and soccer.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1924—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Cecil, Williams and soccer providing the first useful test.
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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 Jun 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q119455734. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1924.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cecil Williams (soccer)” 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.