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References
- ↑ Mooney, Russell E.; Burke, Marianne Turpin (1964). A Mooney genealogy and miscellany with some allied lines. p. 75.
- ↑ "Cumberland Sports Hall of Fame".
- 1 2 Verner M. Jones (1904). "The Editor's Desk". The Kappa Alpha Journal. 21 (5): 639.
- ↑ "Sadler Is Made Captain of All-Southern Team". Atlanta Constitution. November 29, 1903.
- ↑ Wiley Lee Umphlett (1992). Creating the Big Game: John W. Heisman and the Invention of American Football. p. 67. ISBN 9780313284045.