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Albert Downs

Australian rules footballer (1905-1985)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 29, 2024
Entity authorityQ18641413 ↗
Source-derived summary

Albert Downs (26 September 1905 – 7 October 1985) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Albert Downs” as australian rules footballer (1905-1985). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Albert, Downs and Australian.

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—1905, 1985—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1905-09-26. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Albert, Downs and Australian providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Albert Downs”, the useful work is to connect “australian rules footballer (1905-1985)” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

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 Dec 29, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q18641413. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1905 and 1985.

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This entry incorporates text from “Albert Downs” 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.