Colorado Alumni Football Cards
Image | Set | # | Card Title/Players | Pro Team | Position | College | Honors | Notes | Grades available at Nearmint Sports Cards |
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1948 Bowman | 6 | Paul Briggs | Detroit Lions | tackle | Colorado | Rookie card, short print | |||
1951 Topps Magic | 41 | Zack Jordan | punter | Colorado | PSA 7 | ||||
1953 Bowman | 70 | Merwin Hodel | New York Giants | fullback | Colorado | ||||
1955 49ers Team Issue | Carroll Hardy | San Francisco 49ers | halfback | Colorado | After one season with the 49ers, Hardy switched to baseball. He played 13 seasons in the major and minor leagues, and he appeared on a few baseball cards. See the Gallery's Cards in Multiple Sports page. | ||||
1955 Topps All-American | 21cor | Byron White | halfback | Colorado | College Hall of Fame 1954 | Rookie card White served as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1962 to 1993. |
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1955 Topps All-American | 21err | Byron White | halfback | Colorado | College Hall of Fame 1954 | Rookie card, error card The back of this card shows Gaynell Tinsley's bio, not White's. |
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1956 Topps | 7 | Green Bay Packers Team | Green Bay Packers | This card pictures the 1955 Packers team. The team photo includes Deral Teteak, a member of the Packers Hall of Fame who never appeared on a card of his own. | |||||
1956 Topps | 22 | Chicago Cardinals Team | Chicago Cardinals | Short print This card pictures the 1955 Chicago Cardinals team. |
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1956 Topps | 26 | San Francisco 49ers Team | San Francisco 49ers | This card pictures the 1955 49ers team. Most of the players on the card also appeared on 1955 49ers Team Issue Photos. | |||||
1956 Topps | 43 | Gary Knafelc | Green Bay Packers | end | Colorado | Packers Hall of Fame 1996 | Rookie card | ||
1957 Topps | 45 | Gary Knafelc | Green Bay Packers | end | Colorado | Packers Hall of Fame 1996 | Knafelc, credited as "Gary Kincaid," played the role of Fred in the 1963 movie "Palm Springs Weekend." Getty Images has a nice photo of him on the shooting location. | ||
1958 Topps | 9 | Cleveland Browns Team | Cleveland Browns | This photo pictures the 1957 Browns team. Number 48, sixth from the left in the second row, is decathlete Milt Campbell, who won the silver medal at the Helsinki Olympics in 1952 and the gold medal at Melbourne in 1956. After one season with the Browns, Campbell played several years in the the Canadian Football League. | exmt | ||||
1958 Topps | 56 | Gary Knafelc | Green Bay Packers | end | Colorado | Packers Hall of Fame 1996 | Knafelc's son, Greg Knafelc, was a quarterback for the New Orleans Saints in 1983. | ||
1958 Topps | 69 | Chicago Cardinals Team | Chicago Cardinals | This card pictures the 1957 Chicago Cardinals team. Click here to see a large, black-and-white copy of this image. Dick Lane, in the upper right corner of the photo, appears to have been cut-and-pasted in. | |||||
1958 Topps | 109 | Philadelphia Eagles Team | Philadelphia Eagles | This card pictures the 1957 Philadelphia Eagles team. Click here to see a large, black-and-white copy of this image. One of the players on the card, Bill Koman, also appears on the Baltimore Colts team card. The Colts released Koman before the season, and the Eagles picked him up. | |||||
1960 Fleer | 6 | Sam Salerno | Denver Broncos | tackle | Colorado | ||||
1960 Fleer | 10 | Bob Stransky | Denver Broncos | halfback | Colorado | Stransky was elected to the University of Colorado Athletic Hall of Fame in 2010. This card shows him in his Colorado uniform. | |||
1960 Fleer | 54 | Frank Bernardi | Denver Broncos | halfback | Colorado | Rookie card Bernardi was inducted into the University of Colorado Athletic Hall of Fame in 2012. The image on this card pictures him in his Colorado uniform, though he was playing in the NFL by 1955. |
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1960 Kahns | John Wooten | Cleveland Browns | guard | Colorado | College Hall of Fame 2012 | ||||
1960 Topps | 89 | Tom Brookshier | Philadelphia Eagles | defensive back | Colorado | Eagles Honor Roll 1989 | Rookie card | ||
1961 Browns Team Issue 6x9 | John Wooten | Cleveland Browns | guard | Colorado | College Hall of Fame 2012 | ||||
1961 Fleer | 92 | Boyd Dowler | Green Bay Packers | end, punter | Colorado | Packers Hall of Fame 1978 | Rookie card, error card The Packers logo is reversed on all of the Packer cards in the 1961 Fleer set. |
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1961 Kahns | John Wooten | Cleveland Browns | guard | Colorado | College Hall of Fame 2012 | ||||
1961 National City Bank Browns | John Wooten | Cleveland Browns | guard | Colorado | College Hall of Fame 2012 | ||||
1961 Nu-Card | 152 | Joe Romig | guard | Colorado | College Hall of Fame 1984 | Romig placed sixth in voting for the 1961 Heisman Trophy. See the Gallery's page of football cards of Heisman Trophy candidates. |