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The 1963 American Football League All-League Team was selected after the 1963 American Football League season by AFL players, the Associated Press (AP), the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), the New York Daily News (NYDN), and United Press International (UPI) to honor the league's top performers at each position.
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- ↑ "1960 AFL All-Pros". Pro-Football-Reference. Retrieved January 20, 2016.