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- ↑ "Football – Association meeting". The Argus. Melbourne. 29 October 1913. p. 13.
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- ↑ "History". Elsternwick Amateur Football Club. Archived from the original on 28 February 2024. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
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ELSTERNWICK Amateur Football Club was not long formed when it joined the Metropolitan Amateur Football Association, which became the Victorian Amateur Football Association in 1914.
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