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- ↑ "1987 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved 2023-10-01.
- ↑ DataBase Football Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ @byufootball (January 5, 2022). "Coach Sitake has announced the mid-year additions of graduate transfer running backs @chris_br0oks26 from Cal and @HHeimuli from Stanford. Both players have enrolled for winter semester at BYU" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ↑ "Houston Heimuli transfers from Stanford to BYU". 247Sports. 5 January 2022. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
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