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- ↑ http://gocolgateraiders.com.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/2012/11/28/Year-by-Year_Results.pdf?id=2765 [ bare URL ]
- ↑ 1896 Colgate Game-by-Game Records, College Football Data Warehouse, retrieved January 7, 2017.
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