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Peter Creamer

professional footballer (born 1953)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ7173444 ↗
Source-derived summary

Peter Anthony Creamer (born 20 September 1953) is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender in the Football League for Middlesbrough, York City, Doncaster Rovers, Hartlepool United and Rochdale, and in the North American Soccer League for the Dallas Tornado.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Peter Creamer” as professional footballer (born 1953). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Peter, Creamer and professional.

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—1953—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Peter, Creamer and professional providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Peter Creamer”, the useful work is to connect “professional footballer (born 1953)” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Jan 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7173444. The first chronological checks are 1953.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. 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 “Peter Creamer” 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.