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Vannie Albanese

American football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ103884634 ↗
Source-derived summary

Vincent Michelo Albanese (December 2, 1912 – September 2, 1984) was an American professional football player who played two seasons for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1937 and 1938. He also played in the American Association (AA) for the Paterson Panthers and Union City Rams. He was a team captain at Syracuse.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Vannie Albanese” as american football player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Vannie, Albanese and American.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1912, 1984, 1937, 1938—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1912-12-02. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Vannie, Albanese and American providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Vannie Albanese”, the useful work is to connect “american football player” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q103884634. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1912, 1984, 1937 and 1938.

Critical limits

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.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Vannie Albanese”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Vannie Albanese primary sources, Vannie Albanese archive and Vannie 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

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  2. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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This entry incorporates text from “Vannie Albanese” 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.