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- ↑ "37 to 0; Tulane outclassed by the L.S.U. eleven". The Times-Democrat. December 18, 1895. Retrieved April 1, 2022– via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on July 21, 2015. Retrieved July 16, 2015.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ Hardesty, Dan. "LSU: The Louisiana Tigers". The Strode Publishers. Huntsville, Alabama. 1975. P. 334-345.
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