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- ↑ "Allan In Scots' Trial Team". The Daily Telegraph . 24 December 1956.
- ↑ "An Early Score For Cambridge". Edinburgh Evening News . 11 December 1956.
- ↑ "Ian Swan Dropped From Scotland XV". Coventry Evening Telegraph . 12 February 1957.