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- ↑ "Johnny Mack Brown:star on the gridiron and silver screen".
- ↑ "Alabama Places 4 Men On Newspaper All-Southern Team". The Kingsport Times. November 28, 1926. p. 2. Retrieved July 6, 2015– via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Johnny Mack Brown".
- ↑ "Looking Back". p. 92.
- ↑ "1925".
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