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- ↑ "1905 results". Chelsea Football Club Results and Statistics.
- ↑ Southern United at the Football Club History Database
- ↑ Kerrigan, Colm (2004). Teachers and Football: Schoolboy Association Football in England, 1885–1915. Routledge. p. 144. ISBN 978-1913454579.
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