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Ted Forbes

American-football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ32945321 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ted Forbes was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at the Northern Branch of the College of Agriculture—now known as the University of California, Davis (UC Davis)—from 1949 to 1953 and again in 1955, compiling a record of 24–42–8. Forbes played college football and college baseball at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He came to Davis in 1948 as an assistant coach after serving as head coach for one season at Burlingame High School in Burlingame, California.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1949, 1953, 1955, 1948—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Forbes, American-football and player can be independently traced.
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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

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 Sep 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q32945321. The first chronological checks are 1949, 1953, 1955 and 1948.

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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 “Ted Forbes” 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.