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Gary McDermott

American football running back

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ60286861 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gary Don McDermott (born June 9, 1946) is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL) for the Buffalo Bills and Atlanta Falcons. He played college football for the Tulsa Golden Hurricane.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Gary McDermott” is american football running back. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Gary, McDermott and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1946—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1946-06-09. For this dossier, Gary, McDermott and American is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Gary McDermott” 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.