Guard Football Cards, page 10
| Image | Set | # | Card Title/Players | Pro Team | Position | College | Honors | Notes | Grades available at Nearmint Sports Cards |
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1955 Topps All-American | 1 | Herman Hickman | guard | Tennessee | College Hall of Fame 1959 | Rookie card | ||
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1955 Topps All-American | 13 | Aaron Rosenberg | guard | USC | College Hall of Fame 1966 | Rosenberg became a movie producer. One of his movies, Mutiny on the Bounty, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. | ||
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1955 Topps All-American | 18 | Pudge Heffelfinger | guard | Yale | College Hall of Fame 1951 | Rookie card | ||
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1955 Topps All-American | 41 | Joe Alexander | guard, center | Syracuse | College Hall of Fame 1954 | |||
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1955 Topps All-American | 53 | Jack Green | guard | Army, Tulane | College Hall of Fame 1989 | |||
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1955 Topps All-American | 72 | Chub Peabody | guard | Harvard | College Hall of Fame 1973 | Peabody was governor of Massachusetts from 1963 to 1965. | ||
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1955 Topps All-American | 92 | Biggie Munn | guard | Minnesota | College Hall of Fame 1959 | Munn won the Big Ten's MVP award, the Chicago Tribune Silver Football, in 1931. | ||
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1956 49ers Team Issue | Bruce Bosley | San Francisco 49ers | guard, center | West Virginia | College Hall of Fame 1982 | Bosley was a rookie in 1956. He played 14 seasons in the NFL: 13 with the 49ers, and 1 with the Atlanta Falcons. | nm | |
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1956 49ers Team Issue | Lou Palatella | San Francisco 49ers | guard | Pittsburgh | ||||
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1956 Giants Team Issue | Bill Austin | New York Giants | guard, coach | Oregon State | ||||
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1956 Giants Team Issue | Ray Beck | New York Giants | guard, defensive tackle | Georgia Tech | College Hall of Fame 1997 | Beck missed the 1953 and 1954 NFL seasons while serving in the U.S. Army in the Korean War. | nm | |
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1956 Giants Team Issue | Gerry Huth | New York Giants | guard | Wake Forest | The Giants took Huth in the 24th round of the 1956 NFL draft. He played six seasons for the Giants, Philadelphia Eagles, and Minnesota Vikings. | |||
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1956 Giants Team Issue | Jack Stroud | New York Giants | guard, tackle | Tennessee | ||||
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1956 Parkhurst | 1 | Art Walker | Edmonton Eskimos | guard | Michigan | |||
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1956 Parkhurst | 9 | Ted Tully | Edmonton Eskimos | linebacker, guard | ||||
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1956 Parkhurst | 10 | Frank Morris | Edmonton Eskimos | guard | Canadian Football Hall of Fame 1983 | |||
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1956 Parkhurst | 14 | John Wozniak | Saskatchewan Roughriders | guard | Alabama | |||
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1956 Parkhurst | 21 | Alex Macklin | Calgary Stampeders | guard, tackle | Toronto | |||
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1956 Parkhurst | 28 | Joe Yamauchi | Calgary Stampeders | guard, fullback | Eastern Washington | |||
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1956 Parkhurst | 31 | Ed Kotowich | Winnipeg Blue Bombers | guard | ||||
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1956 Parkhurst | 33 | Cal Jones | Winnipeg Blue Bombers | guard | Iowa | College Hall of Fame 1980, Outland Trophy 1955 | Jones was the first Black player to win the Outland Trophy. He also placed tenth in voting for the Heisman Trophy in 1955. (See the Gallery's page of football cards of Heisman candidates.) Jones died in a plane crash with four members of the Saskatchewan Roughriders: Mel Becket, Mario DeMarco, Ray Syrnyk, and Gordon Sturtridge. | |
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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. | ||||
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1956 Topps | 22 | Chicago Cardinals Team | Chicago Cardinals | Short print This card pictures the 1955 Chicago Cardinals team. |
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1956 Topps | 24 | Joe Campanella | Baltimore Colts | guard | Ohio State | |||
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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. |