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Frank Hughes (footballer, born 1909)

Australian rules footballer (1909-2002)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 29, 2024
Entity authorityQ20639225 ↗
Source-derived summary

Frank Hughes (11 March 1909 – 30 April 2002) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Frank Hughes (footballer, born 1909)” is australian rules footballer (1909-2002). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Frank, Hughes and footballer, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1909, 2002—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1909-03-11. For this dossier, Frank, Hughes and footballer is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “australian rules footballer (1909-2002)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 Q20639225. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1909 and 2002.

Critical limits

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.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Frank Hughes (footballer, born 1909)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Frank Hughes (footballer, born 1909) primary sources, Frank Hughes (footballer, born 1909) archive and Frank research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Frank Hughes (footballer, born 1909)”?
  2. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Frank Hughes (footballer, born 1909)” 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.