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- ↑ "CFL Exhibition Slate To Open". The Cumberland News. UPI. July 24, 1969.
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- ↑ "Future of Mexico's Pro Football at Stake". The Brownsville Herald. UPI. September 19, 1969.
- ↑ Guys, Carl (September 23, 1969). "Inflation Deflates". Del Rio (Texas) News-Herald.
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