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Teddy Haines

English rugby league player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ5343267 ↗
Source-derived summary

Edward "Teddy" Haines (birth unknown – death unknown) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s and 1930s He played at representative level for England, and at club level for Salford, as a second-row.

Club career

Haines made his debut for Salford in 1921. He played in the club's 1931–32 Lancashire Cup win against Swinton.

International honours

Teddy Haines won a cap for England while at Salford in 1927 against Wales.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Teddy Haines” is english rugby league player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Teddy, Haines and English, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1921, 1931, 1927—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Teddy, Haines and English is the immediate research focus.
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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 Jan 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5343267. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1921, 1931 and 1927.

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This entry incorporates text from “Teddy Haines” 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.