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- ↑ "Final Game Closes Many Grid Careers". Columbia Daily Spectator. November 25, 1925. p. 1.("Another backfield star, Ray Kirchmeyer, also plays his final game tomorrow. The flashy fullback will wear the moleskins for the last time as a Columbian player.")
- ↑ "Football's All-Time Top-10 Upset Victories". Columbia Lions. September 4, 2020.
- ↑ "Karpe's Comment". Buffalo Evening News. February 3, 1933. p. 27 – via Newspapers.com.
- 1 2 "Ray Kirchmeyer Grid Coach at Wagner Univer". The Brooklyn Citizen. March 12, 1937. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Kirchmeyer Will Coach at Wagner". The Buffalo Evening Times. September 7, 1928. p. 18 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "2019 wagner College Seahawks Football Media Guide". Wagner College. 2019. pp. 75, 87.