1977 Touchdown Club Football Cards
There are 50 cards in the 1977 Touchdown Club football card set. At 2 3/8 inches by 3 3/8 inches, the cards are smaller than standard sports cards. According to Beckett, the cards were sold in complete sets, they came with the players' and coaches' mailing addresses, and they were intended to be autographed. The cards are numbered, and the backs of the cards contain brief biographies of the subjects.
| Image | Set | # | Card Title/Players | Pro Team | Position | College | Honors | Notes | Grades available at Nearmint Sports Cards |
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1977 Touchdown Club | 1 | Red Grange | quarterback | Illinois | College Hall of Fame 1951, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1963 | Grange's number, 77, is one of fourteen jersey numbers that the Bears have retired. See the Gallery's retired numbers page for the retired numbers of all of the NFL teams. | ||
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1977 Touchdown Club | 2 | George Halas | coach, end | Illinois | Pro Football Hall of Fame 1963 | |||
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1977 Touchdown Club | 3 | Benny Friedman | Error card This card pictures Cliff Montgomery, not Benny Friedman. For more football cards that picture the wrong player, see the Gallery's Mistaken Identities page. |
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| Benny Friedman | quarterback | Michigan | College Hall of Fame 1951, Pro Football Hall of Fame 2005 | ||||||
| Cliff Montgomery | tailback | Columbia | College Hall of Fame 1963 | ||||||
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1977 Touchdown Club | 4 | Cliff Battles | tailback, defensive back | West Virginia Wesleyan | College Hall of Fame 1955, Commanders Ring of Fame , Pro Football Hall of Fame 1968 | |||
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1977 Touchdown Club | 5 | Mike Michalske | guard, tackle | Penn State | Packers Hall of Fame 1964, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1964 | |||
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1977 Touchdown Club | 6 | George McAfee | halfback | Duke | College Hall of Fame 1961, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1966 | |||
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1977 Touchdown Club | 7 | Beattie Feathers | halfback | Tennessee | College Hall of Fame 1955 | |||
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1977 Touchdown Club | 8 | Ernie Caddel | wingback | Stanford | nm-mt | |||
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1977 Touchdown Club | 9 | George Musso | guard, tackle | Millikin | Pro Football Hall of Fame 1982 | |||
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1977 Touchdown Club | 10 | Sid Luckman | quarterback | Columbia | College Hall of Fame 1960, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1965 | |||
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1977 Touchdown Club | 11 | Cecil Isbell | tailback | Purdue | College Hall of Fame 1967, Packers Hall of Fame 1972 | Isbell was a finalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2020. See the Gallery's Almost Hall of Famers page. | ||
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1977 Touchdown Club | 12 | Bronko Nagurski | fullback, linebacker | Minnesota | College Hall of Fame 1951, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1963 | |||
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1977 Touchdown Club | 13 | Hunk Anderson | guard, kicker | Notre Dame | College Hall of Fame 1974 | nm-mt | ||
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1977 Touchdown Club | 14 | Dick Farman | guard | Washington State | exmt | |||
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1977 Touchdown Club | 15 | Aldo Forte | guard | Montana | ||||
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1977 Touchdown Club | 16 | Ki Aldrich | center | TCU | College Hall of Fame 1960 | Aldrich placed eighth in voting for the 1938 Heisman Trophy. See the Gallery's page of football cards of Heisman Trophy candidates. | nm-mt | |
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1977 Touchdown Club | 17 | Jim Lee Howell | coach | Arkansas | Giants Ring of Honor 2010 | |||
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1977 Touchdown Club | 18 | Ray Flaherty | end, defensive end | Washington State, Gonzaga | Pro Football Hall of Fame 1976 | Flaherty was the first NFL player to have his number retired. The New York Giants retired his number, 1, when he left the team in 1935. | ||
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1977 Touchdown Club | 19 | Hampton Pool | end, coach | California, Army | nm | |||
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1977 Touchdown Club | 20 | Alex Wojciechowicz | center | Fordham | College Hall of Fame 1955, Eagles Honor Roll 1987, Pride of the Lions 2009, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1968 | |||
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1977 Touchdown Club | 21 | Bill Osmanski | fullback | Holy Cross | College Hall of Fame 1973 | |||
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1977 Touchdown Club | 22 | Hank Soar | fullback | Providence | After football, Soar had a long career as a major league baseball umpire. He appeared as an ump on a 1955 Bowman baseball card. | nm-mt oc | ||
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1977 Touchdown Club | 23 | Dutch Clark | quarterback | Colorado College | College Hall of Fame 1951, Pride of the Lions 2009, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1963 | nm+ | ||
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1977 Touchdown Club | 24 | Joe Muha | fullback, punter | Virginia Military Institute | mint oc | |||
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1977 Touchdown Club | 25 | Don Hutson | end | Alabama | College Hall of Fame 1951, Packers Hall of Fame 1972, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1963 | |||
