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- ↑ "Spiegel Says Wash-Jeff Will Have Great Year: Red and Black's Half on Ground Early". The Pittsburgh Press. August 16, 1914.
- ↑ "Spiegel Gets Place on Star Grid Eleven". The Pittsburg Press. Pittsburgh, PA. November 22, 1914. Sporting Section, p. 4.
- ↑ "Menke Selects Annual All-American Eleven". New Castle News. November 25, 1914.
- ↑ "NCAA 2008 Record Book". NCAA. Archived from the original on July 14, 2009.
- ↑ The University Of Chattanooga Sixty Years.
- ↑ "Johnny Spiegel for Director". The Atlanta Constitution. March 2, 1915.