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- ↑ Labour had its own baseball team a century ago. It defied racism
- ↑ The Meraloma Club
- ↑ Meraloma - Football (Past Section)
- ↑ Early Meraloma Football History
- ↑ Canada's Least Known Early Football Unions
- ↑ Named for the Greek word dodeca, or twelve, being the players on a football side.
- ↑ The Dodekas were a Kitsilano based team which had won the junior football league for three straight seasons, usually by wide margins, and this was their first venture into better competition. After losing their first game to the Meralomas, the still junior-aged Dodekas won all others to capture the trophy. Several members of the Dodekas joined the Meralomas after they had passed the junior age limit.
- ↑ Meraloma - Football (Past Section)
- ↑ Vancouver Knights of Columbus