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- Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; ISBN 0-904919-84-6)
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- ↑ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". News.google.com. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
- ↑ Bath, p. 109
- ↑ Bath, p. 28
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