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Irvine Harwood

British association football player (born 1905)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionNov 2, 2024
Entity authorityQ16078859 ↗
Source-derived summary

Irvine Harwood (5 December 1905 – 26 June 1973) was an English professional footballer who played as a centre forward.

Career

Born in Bradford, Harwood played for Bradford Park Avenue, Bradford City and Wolverhampton Wanderers.

For Bradford City he made 5 appearances in the Football League.

Sources

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

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Irvine Harwood” as british association football player (born 1905). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Irvine, Harwood and British.

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, 1973, 1988, 1903—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1905. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Irvine, Harwood and British providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Irvine Harwood”, the useful work is to connect “british association football player (born 1905)” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Q16078859. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1905, 1973, 1988 and 1903.

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This entry incorporates text from “Irvine Harwood” 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.