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Mosie Burton

Australian soccer player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ6916275 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mosie Burton was an Australian professional soccer player who played as a forward for Bundamba and the Australia national soccer team.

International career

Burton played his first and only match for Australia in a 2–1 win over New Zealand in June 1923. This was to be Australia's first win in an international match.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Mosie Burton” is australian soccer player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mosie, Burton and Australian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1923—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Mosie, Burton and Australian is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “australian soccer player” 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 Jun 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6916275. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1923.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. 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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mosie Burton” 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.