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- ↑ "Irish snap Sooners' string, 7-0". Milwaukee Sentinel. Associated Press. November 17, 1957. p. 1C.
- ↑ "Coaches rate Buckeyes tops in final poll". Reading Eagle. (Pennsylvania). UPI. December 2, 1957. p. 18.
- ↑ "Auburn tops final poll; Badgers 19th". Milwaukee Sentinel. Associated Press. December 3, 1957. p. 4, part 2.
- ↑ "Sooners cash in on six mistakes; crush Duke, 48-21". Milwaukee Sentinel. Associated Press. January 2, 1958. p. 3, part 2.
- ↑ "Sooners explode to rout Duke". The San Francisco Examiner. January 2, 1958. Retrieved January 16, 2024– via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "SoonerSports.com". Archived from the original on February 29, 2008. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- ↑ "1958 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
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