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Sax Crawford

American football player and coach (1881-1964)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ7387419 ↗
Source-derived summary

Saxton Daryl Crawford Sr. (October 6, 1881 – February 11, 1964) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Tennessee for one season in 1904, compiling a record 3–5–1. Crawford was the first Tennessee head coach to record a win against the rival Alabama Crimson Tide. Crawford died on February 11, 1964, at a hospital in Birmingham, Alabama.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Sax Crawford” is american football player and coach (1881-1964). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Crawford, American and football, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1881, 1964, 1904—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Crawford, American and football is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “american football player and coach (1881-1964)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 Jul 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7387419. The first chronological checks are 1881, 1964 and 1904.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. 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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  • Locating cited institutions
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This entry incorporates text from “Sax Crawford” 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.