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- ↑ Other sources suggest 1888, but this would have made him 15 when starting to play for Queen's Park, not impossible but unlikely.
- 1 2 Amateurs, Falkirk Football Historian, 17 March 2014
- ↑ William Davidson, 11v11.com
- ↑ William Davidson, Play Up Liverpool
- ↑ John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine.
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- ↑ Pilgrims, Before The 'D'...Association Football around the world, 1863-1937, 29 August 2017
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