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- ↑ "Victorian Football Club Archive - Balaclava to Burns". ozfootball.net. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
- ↑ "Brunswick Divisional History". ozfootball.net. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
- ↑ "SOCCER". The Age . Victoria, Australia. 9 May 1921. p. 9. Retrieved 26 January 2020– via Trove.
- ↑ "1936 Victorian Division Two Results". ozfootball.net. Retrieved 25 September 2019.