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Doug Ayres

Australian rules footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ19871017 ↗
Source-derived summary

Douglas Rupert Gordon Ayres (26 September 1906 – 25 September 1974) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Family

The son of William Ayres, and Maude Ayres, née Watkins, Douglas Rupert Gordon Ayres was born at Randwick, New South Wales on 26 September 1906.

Death

He died at Bentleigh, Victoria on 25 September 1974.

See also

1927 Melbourne Carnival

1930 Adelaide Carnival

Notes

External links

Doug Ayres's playing statistics from AFL Tables

Doug Ayres at AustralianFootball.com

Douglas Rupert Gordon Ayres, at NSW Australian Football History Society.

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“Doug Ayres” enters the record as australian rules footballer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Doug, Ayres and Australian 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—1906, 1974, 1927, 1930—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1906-09-26. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Doug, Ayres and Australian.
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Why this record matters

“Doug Ayres” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Doug, Ayres and Australian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Apr 1, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q19871017. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1906, 1974, 1927 and 1930.

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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 “Doug Ayres” 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.