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Joe Roulson

English footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 2, 2024
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Joseph Roulson was an English professional footballer who played as a right half. He played for Birmingham both before and after the First World War, making 125 appearances in all competitions, and helped them win the championship of the Football League Second Division in 1920–21.

Editorial summary

“Joe Roulson” enters the record as english footballer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Roulson, English and footballer can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1920—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Roulson, English and footballer.
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Why this record matters

“Joe Roulson” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Roulson, English and footballer provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Nov 2, 2024. The first chronological checks are 1920.

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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 “Joe Roulson” 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.