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- ↑ "Year by Year Results". September 6, 2015. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved June 22, 2020.
- ↑ "Was Merely a Practice Game for University Foot Ball Team". The Minneapolis Tribune. October 6, 1901. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Illini Surprise Themselves: State University Scores Twenty-Three Points Against Heavy Physicians and Surgeons Eleven". The Chicago Tribune. October 12, 1901. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Made the Doctors Sick: Notre Dame Scored Thirty-Four Points Against the Chicago Medicos". The Indianapolis Journal. November 24, 1901. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.