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- "Duck history". University of Oregon. Archived from the original on November 10, 2011. Retrieved November 27, 2011.
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- ↑ Bowl/All-Star Game Records, p. 31
- ↑ Dunnavant, Keith (2004). The Fifty-Year Seduction: How Television Manipulated College Football, from the Birth of the Modern NCAA to the Creation of the BCS. Macmillan. pp. 93–99. ISBN 978-0-312-32345-5 . Retrieved November 27, 2011.
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- ↑ Bowl/All-Star Game Records, pp. 32–38