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Richard Blackmore (American football)

American football player

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ7324191 ↗
Source-derived summary

Richard Earl Blackmore (born August 14, 1956) is an American former professional football defensive back in the National Football League (NFL). Blackmore played college football at Mississippi State University. In the NFL, he played five seasons for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1979 to 1982 and the San Francisco 49ers in 1983.

During his season with the San Francisco 49ers, he played in 11 games, collecting 15 tackles.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Richard Blackmore (American football)” as american football player. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1956, 1979, 1982, 1983—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1956-08-14. The account is most persuasive where Richard, Blackmore and American can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american football player. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7324191. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1956, 1979, 1982 and 1983.

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Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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 “Richard Blackmore (American football)” 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.