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- ↑ Sports Reference Profile
- ↑ "Ali Hufane, a senior at Fairleigh Dickinson University from Somalia". AP News. November 1, 1986.
- ↑ "Somalian sparks FDU in five-mile state race". Asbury Park Press. October 20, 1982 – via Newspapers.com.
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