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Fred Farren

British association football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ10557118 ↗
Source-derived summary

Fred W. Farren was an English professional footballer who played as a left back.

Career

Farren played for Kettering Town, Bradford City and Halifax Town. For Bradford City, he made 87 appearances in the Football League; he also made 8 FA Cup appearances.

Sources

Frost, Terry (1988). Bradford City A Complete Record 1903-1988. Breedon Books Sport. ISBN 0-907969-38-0.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Fred Farren” is british association football player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Fred, Farren and British, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988, 1903—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Fred, Farren and British is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “british association football player” 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

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 Aug 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q10557118. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1988 and 1903.

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Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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 “Fred Farren” 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.