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- ↑ "1966 AFL Pro Bowlers". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved 2024-03-24.
- ↑ Bob Scarpitto Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine , database Football. Accessed December 23, 2007.
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