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References
- ↑ "The Great Game To-Day". The Times. November 29, 1894. p. 2.
- ↑ "[No title]". The Daily Tar Heel. April 18, 1896. p. 4. Retrieved March 14, 2015– via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Hullabaloo. Press of Guggenheimer, Weil and Co. 1896. p. 165.
- ↑ "Johns Hopkins University Football Record Book" (PDF).
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