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- ↑ "Kansas Yearly Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on September 30, 2012. Retrieved September 11, 2012.
- ↑ Evans, Harold (August 1940). "College Football in Kansas". Kansas Historical Quarterly. pp. 285–311. Retrieved September 11, 2012.
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