Halfback Football Cards, page 19
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 | 15 | Eddie Kaw | halfback | Cornell | College Hall of Fame 1954 | ||||
1955 Topps All-American | 17 | Bob Reynolds | halfback | Nebraska | College Hall of Fame 1984 | ||||
1955 Topps All-American | 19 | Bruce Smith | halfback | Minnesota | College Hall of Fame 1972, Heisman Trophy 1941 | ||||
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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1955 Topps All-American | 24 | Ken Strong | halfback | NYU | College Hall of Fame 1957, Giants Ring of Honor 2010, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1967 | ||||
1955 Topps All-American | 35 | Tom Harmon | halfback | Michigan | College Hall of Fame 1954, Heisman Trophy 1940 | Rookie card The Chicago Bears chose Harmon with the first overall pick in the 1941 NFL draft. See the Gallery's First Overall Draft Picks page. |
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1955 Topps All-American | 37 | Jim Thorpe | halfback | Carlisle | College Hall of Fame 1951, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1963 | Thorpe won gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon in the Stockholm Olympics in 1912. See the Gallery's page of Olympic athletes on vintage football cards. | PSA 7, PSA 2 mc, PSA 1 mk, PSA 1 | ||
1955 Topps All-American | 42 | Eddie Tryon | halfback | Colgate | College Hall of Fame 1963 | Rookie card | |||
1955 Topps All-American | 45 | Elmer Oliphant | halfback | Army | College Hall of Fame 1955 | ||||
1955 Topps All-American | 49 | Don Zimmerman | halfback | Tulane | |||||
1955 Topps All-American | 51 | Duane Purvis | halfback | Purdue | |||||
1955 Topps All-American | 61 | Charley Brickley | halfback | Harvard | |||||
1955 Topps All-American | 68 | The Four Horsemen | PSA 3 mc | ||||||
Jim Crowley | halfback | Notre Dame | College Hall of Fame 1966 | ||||||
Elmer Layden | fullback | Notre Dame | College Hall of Fame 1951 | ||||||
Don Miller | halfback | Notre Dame | College Hall of Fame 1970 | ||||||
Harry Stuhldreher | quarterback | Notre Dame | College Hall of Fame 1958 | ||||||
1955 Topps All-American | 69 | Frank Sinkwich | halfback | Georgia | College Hall of Fame 1954, Heisman Trophy 1942 | Rookie card Sinkwich played two seasons for the Detroit Lions and two seasons for the AAFC's New York Yankees and Baltimore Colts. |
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1955 Topps All-American | 71 | Bob Wilson | halfback | SMU | College Hall of Fame 1973 | ||||
1955 Topps All-American | 74 | Gene McEver | halfback | Tennessee | College Hall of Fame 1954 | ||||
1955 Topps All-American | 75 | Hugh Gallarneau | halfback | Stanford | College Hall of Fame 1982 | ||||
1955 Topps All-American | 78 | Jay Berwanger | halfback | Chicago | College Hall of Fame 1954, Heisman Trophy 1935 | Rookie card Berwanger was the first Heisman Trophy winner and the first player ever chosen in the NFL draft. He decided not to play pro football, however. See the Gallery's Heisman Trophy Candidates and First Overall Draft Picks pages. |
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1955 Topps All-American | 79 | Pug Lund | halfback | Minnesota | College Hall of Fame 1958 | Lund won the Big Ten's MVP award, the Chicago Tribune Silver Football, in 1934. | |||
1955 Topps All-American | 88 | Ralph Kercheval | halfback | Kentucky | |||||
1955 Topps All-American | 89 | Marshall Goldberg | halfback | Pittsburgh | Cardinals Ring of Honor 2006, College Hall of Fame 1958 | Goldberg was a finalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1979 and 2008. See the Gallery's Almost Hall of Famers page. | |||
1955 Topps All-American | 90 | Charley O'Rourke | halfback | Boston College | College Hall of Fame 1972 | ||||
1955 Topps All-American | 91 | Bob Odell | halfback | Pennsylvania | College Hall of Fame 1992 | Error card The player pictured on this card is actually Howard Odell, Bob Odell's brother. Howard Odell played at the University of Pittsburgh. See the Gallery's Mistaken Identities page for more football cards that picture the wrong player. |
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1955 Topps All-American | 93 | Willie Heston | halfback | Michigan | College Hall of Fame 1954 |