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- ↑ Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide 1918. American Sports Publishing Co. 1918. pp. 101, 103.
- ↑ "Camp Lewis To Play Marines New Year's Day". The Oregon Sunday Journal. December 9, 1917. p. 42 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Ambulance Eleven Jars Infantry Team". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 14, 1917. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Marines Easy for Ambulance Eleven: Overwhelmingly Defeated by Aggregation of Stars 27 to 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 28, 1917. p. 20 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Ewing Crushed by Ambulance Team". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 4, 1917. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "USAACS Defeat Marines in Brilliant Football Game 16-0: Ambulance Corps Triumphant Over Soldiers of Sea". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 11, 1917. p. 18 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Ambulance Hands Camp Meade Jolt". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 25, 1917. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "USAACS No Match For Georgetown". The Philadelphia Inquirer . Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 30, 1917. p. 16. Retrieved September 2, 2021– via Newspapers.com
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