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- ↑ "Buster Brown, Ex-Tiger Cat, To Help Coach McGill Line". The Montreal Star. 27 August 1954. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
- ↑ "Buster Brown football statistics on StatsCrew.com".
- ↑ "McGill kicker Silva signs with Eskimos".
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