1926 Spalding Champions Football Cards

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The 1926 Spalding Champions set, sometimes called the 1926 Sports Company of America set, contains 210 cards. It is a multi-sport set, with sports as diverse as balloon racing, surfcasting, and checkers. You can see the full list of Spalding cards at oddlyquirky.com. Fourteen of the cards picture football players; they are pictured below. Among the fourteen are pre-roookie cards of Bennie Friedman and Ernie Nevers, both Hall of Famers, whose generally accepted rookie cards appear in the 1955 Topps All-American set. I have added the Friedman and Nevers cards to my pre-rookie card page. Another card, Bo McMillin, has two errors: his name is misspelled "McMillan," and the player on the card is actually someone else. You can see a photo of the real Bo McMillin on my page of football cards that picture the wrong player.

There is a picture of a sheet of 206 Spalding cards on the Legendary Auctions web site. There are spaces at the bottom of the sheet for four more cards, so apparently other sheets were printed that held all 210 cards in the set. I have not studied the 206-card sheet to see which four cards are missing.

To see a large picture of any card, pick the small picture or the card title.

Picture	Set	#	Card	Team	Position	College	Honors	Notes	Est. NM Value (?)
	1926 Spalding Champions	1	Peggy Flournoy		halfback	Tulane
	1926 Spalding Champions	2	Benny Friedman		quarterback	Michigan	College Hall of Fame 1951, Hall of Fame 2005	Friedman was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1979.
	1926 Spalding Champions	3	Ed Garbisch		center	Army	College Hall of Fame 1954
	1926 Spalding Champions	4	Homer Hazel		fullback, end	Rutgers	College Hall of Fame 1951
	1926 Spalding Champions	5	Walter Koppisch		halfback	Columbia	College Hall of Fame 1981
	1926 Spalding Champions	6	Ed McGinley		tackle	Pennsylvania	College Hall of Fame 1979
	1926 Spalding Champions	7	Bo McMillin		quarterback	Centre	College Hall of Fame 1951	Error: name misspelled McMillan, card pictures someone else
	1926 Spalding Champions	8	Harry Stuhldreher		quarterback	Notre Dame	College Hall of Fame 1958
	1926 Spalding Champions	9	Brick Muller		end	California	College Hall of Fame 1951	Muller played and coached for the Los Angeles Buccaneers in the team's only season in the NFL, 1926.
	1926 Spalding Champions	10	Ernie Nevers		fullback	Stanford	Cardinals Ring of Honor 2006, College Hall of Fame 1951, Hall of Fame 1963
	1926 Spalding Champions	11	Swede Oberlander		halfback	Dartmouth
	1926 Spalding Champions	12	Eddie Tryon		halfback	Colgate	College Hall of Fame 1963
	1926 Spalding Champions	13	Ed Weir		tackle	Nebraska	College Hall of Fame 1951
	1926 Spalding Champions	14	George Wilson		tailback	Washington	College Hall of Fame 1951	'Wildcat' Wilson played for the NFL's Providence Steam Roller from 1927 to 1929. His brother, Abe, also played for Providence.