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Peter Rajkovich

American-football player (1911-1979)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 3, 2024
Entity authorityQ26503770 ↗
Source-derived summary

Peter Joseph Rajkovich (January 17, 1911 – November 13, 1979) was an American football fullback who played during the 1934 season for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Rajkovich ran for 140 yards in his career on 39 attempts, scoring 0 rushing touchdowns. He played college football for the University of Detroit Mercy.

References

Further reading

Wiltse, Dorr Norman (1983). A Look in Your Own Backyard Or Tales of Caro and Nearby Places. Tuscola County Advertiser. p. 178. OCLC 10335479.

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“Peter Rajkovich” enters the record as american-football player (1911-1979). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Peter, Rajkovich and American-football 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—1911, 1979, 1934, 1983—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1911-01-17. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Peter, Rajkovich and American-football.
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“Peter Rajkovich” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Peter, Rajkovich and American-football provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Oct 3, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q26503770. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1911, 1979, 1934 and 1983.

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This entry incorporates text from “Peter Rajkovich” 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.