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Mark McQueen

Australian rules football

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ6768841
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Mark McQueen (born 9 January 1970) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Australian Football League (AFL).

McQueen started his career at Sandy Bay in the Tasmanian Football League between 1986 and 1987.

McQueen, a defender, won the best and fairest award at Tasmanian Football League (TFL) club North Hobart in 1988 and 1990.

In the 1990 AFL National Draft, McQueen was selected by Richmond, with pick 42. After making his senior debut in 1991, McQueen was a regular fixture in the senior team in 1992 AFL season, when he played 18 games.

After his delistment from Richmond, McQueen transferred to South Australian National Football League (SANFL) club Woodville-West Torrens.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Mark McQueen” as australian rules football. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970, 1986, 1987, 1988—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970-01-09. The account is most persuasive where Mark, McQueen and Australian can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as australian rules football. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6768841. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1970, 1986, 1987 and 1988.

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This entry incorporates text from Mark McQueen” 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.