Welcome to the Vintage Football Card Gallery!

The Vintage Football Card Gallery has thousands of pictures of old football cards, dating from 1888 to 1979. You can search the Gallery by player, set, team, college, and other criteria. The Gallery includes descriptions of the sets, trivia about the cards and players, and other fun odds and ends. Scroll down and explore!

Card of the Day

Check out the latest articles in my Vintage Football Card of the Day blog!

1973 Topps Bob Kuechenberg

1973 Topps Bob Kuechenberg

Today’s card of the day is a 1973 Topps card of Bob...

Tuesday, April 23

1968 Topps Team Photos Green Bay Packers

1968 Topps Team Photos Green Bay Packers

Today’s card of the day is the Green Bay Packers 1968 Topps...

Monday, April 22

1961 Nu-Card Roman Gabriel

1961 Nu-Card Roman Gabriel

Roman Gabriel, who played quarterback for sixteen years in the NFL, passed...

Sunday, April 21

Card Categories

The cards in the gallery are organized by set, and the sets are grouped into categories. Click on a category below to see the sets it contains. (Most sets appear in more than one category.) You can also search the Gallery via the methods in the Searches section below.

Searches

You can search the Gallery for your favorite player, team, or college. You can also search for cards of players who have received various honors, such as the Outland Trophy or induction into the Chiefs Hall of Fame. Finally, the Advanced Search page lets you combine searches: you can search for all Detroit Lions who have won the Heisman Trophy, for example.

Features

The Gallery includes the following fun and useful features:

Vintage Football Cards for Sale

The cards pictured in the Gallery are not for sale, but I do have a sales site called Nearmint's Vintage Football Cards. Please visit!

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And More...

Here are a few miscellaneous pages. Some are dated but still worth a look.