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Leo Brereton

Australian rules footballer (1936-2020)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ6523578 ↗
Source-derived summary

Leo Bernard Brereton (1 November 1936 – 12 October 2020) was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.

Career

Brereton made his debut for the Carlton Football Club in the Round 1 of the 1957 season. He left the club at the end of the 1962 season.

In 1964 he was recruited to the Manuka Football Club, part of the Canberra Australian National Football League, and played there for two years.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Leo Brereton” is australian rules footballer (1936-2020). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Brereton, Australian and rules, 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—1936, 2020, 1957, 1962—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1936-11-01. For this dossier, Brereton, Australian and rules is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “australian rules footballer (1936-2020)” 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 Feb 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6523578. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1936, 2020, 1957 and 1962.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. 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
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Leo Brereton”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Leo Brereton primary sources, Leo Brereton archive and Brereton 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 “Leo Brereton”?
  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 “Leo Brereton” 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.