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- ↑ "Anderson out of tour side - and rugby". Belfast Telegraph . 4 April 1955.
- ↑ "F. E. Anderson out of South African tour XV". Northern Whig. 5 April 1955.
- ↑ "50 years on from painful international baptism". Irish Independent . 6 March 2005.
- ↑ "Coleraine brochure says it all". Ireland's Saturday Night . 27 February 1982.
- ↑ "Queen's Rugby name Greatest Ever XV on special anniversary". Belfast News-Letter . 22 November 2019.