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- ↑ "Anglo Queensland FA 1884". Socceraust. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
- ↑ "Football". The Week . Vol. XVIII, no. 451. Queensland, Australia. 16 August 1884. p. 10. Retrieved 27 January 2021– via National Library of Australia.
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