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Roosie Hudson

American basketball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ19984784 ↗
Source-derived summary

Roosevelt "Roosie" Hudson (July 15, 1915 – February 1, 1985) was an American professional basketball player. He played for the Chicago Studebaker Flyers in the National Basketball League for one season. He also played for the Harlem Globetrotters for a total of seven seasons.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Roosie Hudson” as american basketball player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Roosie, Hudson and American.

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—1915, 1985—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1915-07-15. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Roosie, Hudson and American providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Roosie Hudson”, the useful work is to connect “american basketball player” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19984784. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1915 and 1985.

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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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This entry incorporates text from “Roosie Hudson” 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.