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Ted Sulkowicz

Australian rugby league player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ124694669
Source-derived summary

Ted Sulkowicz (1955–2022) was an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s. He played for Parramatta in the NSWRL competition.

Playing career

Sulkowicz made his first grade debut in round 14 of the 1974 NSWRFL season against Western Suburbs at Lidcombe Oval. Sulkowicz was part of the 1976 and 1977 Parramatta squads which reached the grand final however he didn't feature in any of the clubs finals matches or the grand final losses to Manly and St. George respectively. Sulkowicz's final game for the club ironically came against Western Suburbs in round 8 of the 1978 NSWRFL season. His brother Ed Sulkowicz played for Parramatta between 1974 and 1980 making 68 appearances.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ted Sulkowicz” as australian rugby league player. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1955, 2022, 1974, 1976—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1955-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Sulkowicz, Australian and rugby 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 australian rugby league player. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q124694669. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1955, 2022, 1974 and 1976.

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This entry incorporates text from Ted Sulkowicz” 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.