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- ↑ "All-Time All-MEAC Football First Team" (PDF). Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. Retrieved January 22, 2011.
- ↑ Hoggard, Rex (December 21, 1995). "Famu's Holmes Heads I-aa All-america Team". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved January 22, 2011.
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