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Harry Houlahan

English footballer (born 1930)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 2, 2024
Entity authorityQ18160625 ↗
Source-derived summary

Harold Houlahan (14 February 1930 – 5 March 2018) was an English professional footballer who played as an inside left in the Football League for Oldham Athletic and Darlington, and in non-league football for Durham City and Spennymoor United. He was also on the books of Newcastle United without playing for them in the League. Houlahan died in Darlington on 5 March 2018, at the age of 88.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Harry Houlahan” as english footballer (born 1930). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1930, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1930-02-14. The account is most persuasive where Harry, Houlahan and English can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as english footballer (born 1930). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Nov 2, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q18160625. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1930 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Harry Houlahan” 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.