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Sam Cookson (English footballer, born 1891)

Welsh footballer (1891-1974)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ2218103 ↗
Source-derived summary

Samuel Percy Cookson (17 January 1891 – 1974) was an English footballer. His regular position was as a defender. He was born in Shrewsbury. He played for Manchester United and Bargoed Town.

He served in the Labour Corps in the First World War. He worked as a tanner and later a master tailor. He died in Shrewsbury, aged 83.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Sam Cookson (English footballer, born 1891)” is welsh footballer (1891-1974). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Cookson, English and footballer, 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—1891, 1974—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1891-01-17. For this dossier, Cookson, English and footballer is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “welsh footballer (1891-1974)” 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 Oct 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2218103. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1891 and 1974.

Critical limits

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 “Sam Cookson (English footballer, born 1891)” 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.