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Brian Sopatyk

American football guard

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 14, 2024
Entity authorityQ24810003 ↗
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Brian Sopatyk (born May 31, 1947) is a retired Canadian football player who played for the BC Lions. He played college football at Boise State University. During the 1960s, he played for the Saskatoon Hilltops.

His brother Jeff also played football.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Brian Sopatyk” as american football guard. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1947—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1947-05-31. The account is most persuasive where Brian, Sopatyk and American can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as american football guard. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 14, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q24810003. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1947.

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This entry incorporates text from “Brian Sopatyk” 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.