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- ↑ "National Championship memories: Tommy Ford". TexasSports.com. Retrieved October 20, 2015.
- ↑ Ted Gangi (ed.). "FWAA All-America Since 1944: The All-Time Team" (PDF). Retrieved February 8, 2015.