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A fact from Butch Allison appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 March 2017 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that professional American football player Butch Allison was the brother of another professional athlete?
The lead should probably mention how much he's played in the NFL/CFL, even though how little it was.
Was there any info on his childhood/before high school?
His death is not mentioned outside the infobox.
Per WP:SWYGT, you have to mention you used Newspapers.com. Add |via=Newspapers.com to the citations and {{free access}} to the end of the ref.
Only a few things to fix or improve.—CycloneIsaac (Talk) 01:08, 4 April 2017 (UTC)Reply
The lead has been expanded.
Information on his childhood was very sparse. The second obit (reference 10) provides his parents' names, but that's it before high school. He was a minor enough sports figure that no-one ever ran bio pieces on him to the extent of digging into his childhood.
Added a section for this, although it will have to be a one-liner because cause of death is not clear in the sources.
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