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Paul de Lavallaz

Swiss association football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ18062631 ↗
Source-derived summary

Paul de Lavallaz (28 February 1901 – 26 December 1994) was a Swiss footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1928 Summer Olympics. He also played on the Grasshopper Club and Zürich around that same era. His position on the football pitch was the Right-back position.

Editorial summary

“Paul de Lavallaz” enters the record as swiss association football player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Paul, Lavallaz and Swiss can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1901, 1994, 1928—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1901-02-28. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Paul, Lavallaz and Swiss.
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Why this record matters

“Paul de Lavallaz” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Paul, Lavallaz and Swiss provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Sep 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18062631. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1901, 1994 and 1928.

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This entry incorporates text from “Paul de Lavallaz” 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.