Uncut Sheets of 1955 Bowman Football Cards

I have not seen a full sheet of 1955 Bowman football cards, but I believe that the sheets were configured as shown below. If you hold your cursor above any of the card images, your browser should show you the name of the player and the number of the card. Clicking on a card will bring up a full-size image. (A real uncut sheet would not have lines between the cards--that's an effect of scanning them individually.)

The 1953, 1954, and 1955 Bowman football sets contain 96, 128, and 160 cards, respectively. Because all of those numbers are divisible by 32, I presume that the 1953-1955 sets were printed on 32-card sheets. I also presume that the cards were arranged in numerical order on the sheets, because pictures I have seen of earlier Bowman sheets show that the cards were ordered by number. (See my 1950 Bowman and 1952 Bowman Large virtual sheets.)

Given all that, I believe that the first 1955 Bowman sheet held cards numbered 1 through 32, and it looked like this.

1955 Bowman #1: Doak Walker 1955 Bowman #2: Mike McCormack 1955 Bowman #3: John Olszewski 1955 Bowman #4: Dorne Dibble 1955 Bowman #5: Lindon Crow 1955 Bowman #6: Hugh Taylor 1955 Bowman #7: Frank Gifford 1955 Bowman #8: Alan Ameche
1955 Bowman #9: Don Stonesifer 1955 Bowman #10: Pete Pihos 1955 Bowman #11: Bill Austin 1955 Bowman #12: Dick Alban 1955 Bowman #13: Bobby Walston 1955 Bowman #14: Len Ford 1955 Bowman #15: Jug Girard 1955 Bowman #16: Charley Conerly
1955 Bowman #17: Volney Peters 1955 Bowman #18: Max Boydston 1955 Bowman #19: Leon Hart 1955 Bowman #20: Bert Rechichar 1955 Bowman #21: Lee Riley 1955 Bowman #22: John Carson 1955 Bowman #23: Harry Thompson 1955 Bowman #24: Ray Wietecha
1955 Bowman #25: Ollie Matson 1955 Bowman #26: Eddie LeBaron 1955 Bowman #27: Jack Simmons 1955 Bowman #28: Jack Christiansen 1955 Bowman #29: Bucko Kilroy 1955 Bowman #30: Tom Keane 1955 Bowman #31: Dave Leggett 1955 Bowman #32: Norm Van Brocklin

This table shows how the cards on the first sheet were arranged by number:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32

The second sheet held cards numbered 33 through 64:

1955 Bowman #33: Harlon Hill 1955 Bowman #34: Bob Haner 1955 Bowman #35: Veryl Switzer 1955 Bowman #36: Dick Stanfel 1955 Bowman #37: Lou Groza 1955 Bowman #38: Tank Younger 1955 Bowman #39: Dick Flanagan 1955 Bowman #40: Jim Dooley
1955 Bowman #41: Ray Collins 1955 Bowman #42: John Henry Johnson 1955 Bowman #43: Tom Fears 1955 Bowman #44: Joe Perry 1955 Bowman #45: Gene Brito 1955 Bowman #46: Bill Johnson 1955 Bowman #47: Dan Towler 1955 Bowman #48: Dick Moegle
1955 Bowman #49: Kline Gilbert 1955 Bowman #50: Les Goble 1955 Bowman #51: Ray Krouse 1955 Bowman #52: Pat Summerall 1955 Bowman #53: Ed Brown 1955 Bowman #54: Lynn Chandnois 1955 Bowman #55: Joe Heap 1955 Bowman #56: John Hoffman
1955 Bowman #57: Howard Ferguson 1955 Bowman #58: Bobby Watkins 1955 Bowman #59: Charlie Ane 1955 Bowman #60: Ken MacAfee 1955 Bowman #61: Ralph Guglielmi 1955 Bowman #62: George Blanda 1955 Bowman #63: Ken Snyder 1955 Bowman #64: Chet Ostrowski

And it was numbered like this:

33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48
49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56
57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64

The third sheet held cards numbered 65 through 96:

1955 Bowman #65: Buddy Young 1955 Bowman #66: Gordon Soltau 1955 Bowman #67: Eddie Bell 1955 Bowman #68: Ben Agajanian 1955 Bowman #69: Tom Dahms 1955 Bowman #70: Jim Ringo 1955 Bowman #71: Bobby Layne 1955 Bowman #72: Y.A. Tittle
1955 Bowman #73: Bob Gaona 1955 Bowman #74: Tobin Rote 1955 Bowman #75: Hugh McElhenny 1955 Bowman #76: John Kreamcheck 1955 Bowman #77: Al Dorow 1955 Bowman #78: Bill Wade 1955 Bowman #79: Dale Dodrill 1955 Bowman #80: Chuck Drazenovich
1955 Bowman #81: Billy Wilson 1955 Bowman #82: Les Richter 1955 Bowman #83: Pat Brady 1955 Bowman #84: Bob Hoernschemeyer 1955 Bowman #85: Joe Arenas 1955 Bowman #86: Len Szafaryn 1955 Bowman #87: Rick Casares 1955 Bowman #88: Leon McLaughlin
1955 Bowman #89: Charles Toogood 1955 Bowman #90: Tom Bettis 1955 Bowman #91: John Sandusky 1955 Bowman #92: Bill Wightkin 1955 Bowman #93: Pete Brewster 1955 Bowman #94: Marion Campbell 1955 Bowman #95: Floyd Reid 1955 Bowman #96: Harry Jagade

And it was numbered like this:

65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72
73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80
81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88
89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96

The fourth sheet held cards numbered 97 through 128:

1955 Bowman #97: George Taliaferro 1955 Bowman #98: Carlton Massey 1955 Bowman #99: Fran Rogel 1955 Bowman #100: Alex Sandusky 1955 Bowman #101: Bob St. Clair 1955 Bowman #102: Al Carmichael 1955 Bowman #103: Carl Taseff 1955 Bowman #104: Leo Nomellini
1955 Bowman #105: Tom Scott 1955 Bowman #106: Ted Marchibroda 1955 Bowman #107: Art Spinney 1955 Bowman #108: Wayne Robinson 1955 Bowman #109: Jim Ricca 1955 Bowman #110: Lou Ferry 1955 Bowman #111: Roger Zatkoff 1955 Bowman #112: Lou Creekmur
1955 Bowman #113: Ken Konz 1955 Bowman #114: Doug Eggers 1955 Bowman #115: Bobby Thomason 1955 Bowman #116: Bill McPeak 1955 Bowman #117: William Brown 1955 Bowman #118: Royce Womble 1955 Bowman #119: Frank Gatski 1955 Bowman #120: Jim Finks
1955 Bowman #121: Andy Robustelli 1955 Bowman #122: Bobby Dillon 1955 Bowman #123: Leo Sanford 1955 Bowman #124: Elbert Nickel 1955 Bowman #125: Wayne Hansen 1955 Bowman #126: Buck Lansford 1955 Bowman #127: Gern Nagler 1955 Bowman #128: Jim Salsbury

And it was numbered like this:

97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104
105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112
113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120
121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128

Finally, the fifth sheet held cards numbered 129 through 160:

1955 Bowman #129: Dale Atkeson 1955 Bowman #130: John Schweder 1955 Bowman #131: Dave Hanner 1955 Bowman #132: Eddie Price 1955 Bowman #133: Vic Janowicz 1955 Bowman #134: Ernie Stautner 1955 Bowman #135: James Parmer 1955 Bowman #136: Emlen Tunnell
1955 Bowman #137: Kyle Rote 1955 Bowman #138: Norm Willey 1955 Bowman #139: Charley Trippi 1955 Bowman #140: Bill Howton 1955 Bowman #141: Bob Clatterbuck 1955 Bowman #142: Bob Boyd 1955 Bowman #143: Bob Toneff 1955 Bowman #144: Jerry Helluin
1955 Bowman #145: Adrian Burk 1955 Bowman #146: Walt Michaels 1955 Bowman #147: Zollie Toth 1955 Bowman #148: Frank Varrichione 1955 Bowman #149: Dick Bielski 1955 Bowman #150: George Ratterman 1955 Bowman #151: Mike Jarmoluk 1955 Bowman #152: Tom Landry
1955 Bowman #153: Ray Renfro 1955 Bowman #154: Zeke Bratkowski 1955 Bowman #155: Jerry Norton 1955 Bowman #156: Maurice Bassett 1955 Bowman #157: Volney Quinlan 1955 Bowman #158: Chuck Bednarik 1955 Bowman #159: Don Colo 1955 Bowman #160: L.G. Dupre

And it was numbered like this:

129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136
137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144
145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152
153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160

According to my Beckett football card price guide, "cards 65-160 are slightly more difficult to obtain." Those would be the cards on the last three sheets. Judging by PSA's population report, it's actually cards 129-160--the cards on the last sheet--that are most difficult. At the time of this writing, the cards with 20 or fewer examples graded PSA 8 or higher were numbers 89, 98, 99, 100, 102, 129, 135, 137, 138, 142, 143, 145, 148, 149, 151, 152, 159, and 160. Of these, card 89 is on a corner of the third sheet, the next four cards are in the top row of the fourth sheet, and the remaining thirteen are on the last sheet.

For more virtual uncut sheets, see the Gallery's master uncut sheet page.

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