1956 Parkhurst Football Cards, page 2
| Image | Set | # | Card Title/Players | Pro Team | Position | College | Honors | Notes | Grades available at Nearmint Sports Cards |
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1956 Parkhurst | 26 | Pete Maxwell-Muir | Calgary Stampeders | halfback | Western Washington | Error card Maxwell-Muir's last name is mistakenly shortened to "Muir" on the back of this card. |
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1956 Parkhurst | 27 | Harvey Wylie | Calgary Stampeders | defensive back | Montana State | Canadian Football Hall of Fame 1980 | ||
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1956 Parkhurst | 28 | Joe Yamauchi | Calgary Stampeders | guard, fullback | Eastern Washington | |||
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1956 Parkhurst | 29 | John Alderton | Calgary Stampeders | end | Maryland | Alderton played for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1953. | ||
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1956 Parkhurst | 30 | Bill McKenna | Calgary Stampeders | end | Brandeis | |||
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1956 Parkhurst | 31 | Ed Kotowich | Winnipeg Blue Bombers | guard | ||||
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1956 Parkhurst | 32 | Herb Gray | Winnipeg Blue Bombers | end | Texas | Canadian Football Hall of Fame 1983 | ||
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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 Parkhurst | 34 | Eagle Day | Winnipeg Blue Bombers | quarterback | Mississippi | |||
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1956 Parkhurst | 35 | Buddy Leake | Winnipeg Blue Bombers | quarterback, kicker | Oklahoma | |||
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1956 Parkhurst | 36 | Bob McNamara | Winnipeg Blue Bombers | halfback | Minnesota | McNamara placed tenth in voting for the 1954 Heisman Trophy. See the Gallery's page of football cards of Heisman candidates. | ||
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1956 Parkhurst | 37 | Bud Grant | Winnipeg Blue Bombers | end, defensive end | Minnesota | Canadian Football Hall of Fame 1983, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1994, Vikings Ring of Honor 1998 | Grant and Warren Moon are the only people to have been elected to both the Canadian Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Grant also played basketball for two seasons with the Minnesota Lakers. The Lakers won the NBA Championship in 1950, his first season. | |
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1956 Parkhurst | 38 | Gord Rowland | Winnipeg Blue Bombers | halfback | ||||
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1956 Parkhurst | 39 | Glenn McWhinney | Winnipeg Blue Bombers | halfback | Error card McWhinney's first name is misspelled "Glen" on the back of this card. |
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1956 Parkhurst | 40 | Lorne Benson | Winnipeg Blue Bombers | fullback | ||||
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1956 Parkhurst | 41 | Sam Etcheverry | Montreal Alouettes | quarterback | Denver | Canadian Football Hall of Fame 1969 | ||
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1956 Parkhurst | 42 | Joey Pal | Montreal Alouettes | flying wing | Sir George William | |||
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1956 Parkhurst | 43 | Tom Hugo | Montreal Alouettes | center, linebacker | Denver | Canadian Football Hall of Fame 2018 | ||
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1956 Parkhurst | 44 | Tex Coulter | Montreal Alouettes | tackle, end | Army | Coulter was named Canadian football's Most Outstanding Lineman in 1955. | ||
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1956 Parkhurst | 45 | Doug McNichol | Montreal Alouettes | tackle | Western Ontario | |||
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1956 Parkhurst | 46 | Tom Moran | Montreal Alouettes | linebacker, end | ||||
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1956 Parkhurst | 47 | Red O'Quinn | Montreal Alouettes | end | Wake Forest | Canadian Football Hall of Fame 1981 | O'Quinn played in the NFL in 1950 and 1951, for the Chicago Bears and Philadelphia Eagles. | |
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1956 Parkhurst | 48 | Hal Patterson | Montreal Alouettes | end | Kansas | Canadian Football Hall of Fame 1971 | ||
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1956 Parkhurst | 49 | Jacques Belec | Montreal Alouettes | running back | Western Ontario | |||
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1956 Parkhurst | 50 | Pat Abbruzzi | Montreal Alouettes | fullback | Rhode Island | Error card Abbuzzi's last name is misspelled "Abruzzi" on the back of this card. His brother, Lou "Duke" Abbruzzi, played for the NFL's Boston Yanks in 1946. |