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Norman Slater

American rugby union player (1894-1979)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2025
Entity authorityQ446193 ↗
Source-derived summary

Norman Bernard Slater (January 23, 1894 – March 1, 1979) was an American rugby union player who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the American rugby union team, which won the gold medal, and younger brother of team captain Colby 'Babe' Slater.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Norman Slater” is american rugby union player (1894-1979). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Norman, Slater and American, 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—1894, 1979, 1924—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1894-01-23. For this dossier, Norman, Slater and American is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “american rugby union player (1894-1979)” 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

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 8, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q446193. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1894, 1979 and 1924.

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.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Norman Slater primary sources, Norman Slater archive and Norman 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

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  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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This entry incorporates text from “Norman Slater” 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.