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- ↑ "Stanford Game-by-Game Results; 1936–1940". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on 2012-03-02. Retrieved September 9, 2011.
- ↑ "Columbia will play Stanford in Gotham tilt". Schenectady Gazette. November 28, 1936. Retrieved October 14, 2014.