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Steve Henry (American football)

American football player

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ55634003 ↗
Source-derived summary

Steve Arlen Henry (March 5, 1957 – March 18, 2021) was an American professional football defensive back who played in the National Football League (NFL) from 1979 to 1981 for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants and Baltimore Colts. Henry played in a total of 15 career games. He was killed in Emporia, Kansas by a reckless driver, who was fleeing police.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Steve Henry (American football)” as american football player. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1957, 2021, 1979, 1981—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1957-03-05. The account is most persuasive where Steve, Henry and American can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american football player. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q55634003. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1957, 2021, 1979 and 1981.

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.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Steve Henry (American football)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Steve Henry (American football) primary sources, Steve Henry (American football) archive and Steve research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Steve Henry (American football)”?
  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
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This entry incorporates text from “Steve Henry (American football)” 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.