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Harry Tate (soccer)

American soccer player (1886-1954)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ3440498 ↗
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Harry F. Tate (July 31, 1886 – October 27, 1954) was an American amateur soccer player who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He was born and died in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1904 he was a member of the St. Rose Parish team, which won the bronze medal in the soccer tournament. He played all four matches as a forward.

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“Harry Tate (soccer)” enters the record as american soccer player (1886-1954). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Harry, Tate and soccer can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1886, 1954, 1904—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1886-07-31. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Harry, Tate and soccer.
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“Harry Tate (soccer)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Harry, Tate and soccer provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Apr 15, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3440498. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1886, 1954 and 1904.

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This entry incorporates text from “Harry Tate (soccer)” 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.