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- ↑ "Teamwork Gives Port Easy Win". The Advertiser . Adelaide. 26 April 1952. p. 12. Retrieved 12 November 2015– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Round the Pickets". The Advertiser . Adelaide. 28 April 1952. p. 5. Retrieved 13 November 2015– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Round the Pickets". The Advertiser . Adelaide. 28 April 1952. p. 5. Retrieved 13 November 2015– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Round the Pickets". The Advertiser . Adelaide. 28 April 1952. p. 5. Retrieved 13 November 2015– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Australian Football – SANFL Season 1952". Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
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