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- ↑ "Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame in Wilmington, Delaware - 1991". www.desports.org.
- ↑ "Memories of his late father, a former Terp who died in 1996, help drive junior cornerback Josh Wilson to succeed at Maryland". Baltimore Sun. August 28, 2005.
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