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- ↑ Texas All-Time Single Season Scoring Lone Star Gridiron
- ↑ Austin American-Statesman: Baylor gets Cuero's Strait to stay in state
- ↑ "1994 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved 2023-03-31.
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