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- ↑ "Football Practice". The Guardian. August 25, 1928. p. 3 – via Arkansas Catholic Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "University of Tennessee". 1922. p. 146.[ dead link ]
- ↑ "Georgia Tech Has Four on All-Southern Team". Richmond Times Dispatch. December 10, 1922 – via Library of Congress.
- ↑ Wheatley, Cliff (December 10, 1922). "Al Staton, Davis, Whelchel Frye, Roberts, Cobington, Bennett, Fletcher Picked". Atlanta Constitution. p. 3. Retrieved March 16, 2015– via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Tarzan Holt Captain". Daily Illini. December 20, 1922. Retrieved May 6, 2015– via Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections.
- ↑ "2002 Football Captains Selected". University of Tennessee Athletics. August 22, 2002. Retrieved February 25, 2024.
- ↑ Fields, Bud (October 1, 1982). Big Orange: A Pictorial History of University of Tennessee football. Leisure Press. p. 70. ISBN 9780880110716 – via Google Books.
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