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David Burkholder

Canadian Football Athlete

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ18163404 ↗
Source-derived summary

David Alan Burkholder (October 21, 1936 – October 12, 1999) was an American professional football player who played for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He won the Grey Cup with them in 1958, 1959, 1961 and 1962. He played college football at the University of Minnesota. In 1999, Burkholder died of cancer, aged 62.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “David Burkholder” as canadian Football Athlete. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1936, 1999, 1958, 1959—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1936-10-21. The account is most persuasive where David, Burkholder and Canadian can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as canadian Football Athlete. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18163404. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1936, 1999, 1958 and 1959.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. 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 “David Burkholder” 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.