{"id":834,"date":"2024-03-10T11:34:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T17:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.footballcardgallery.com\/card-of-the-day\/?p=834"},"modified":"2024-03-10T11:34:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T17:34:30","slug":"1974-colorado-playing-cards-dave-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.footballcardgallery.com\/card-of-the-day\/1974-colorado-playing-cards-dave-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"1974 Colorado Playing Cards Dave Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Happy 70th birthday to Dave Williams<\/a>! Williams played quarterback for the CFL’s Calgary Stampeders in 1976, then jumped to the NFL and played running for five years<\/a> with the San Francisco 49ers and Chicago Bears. His best season was 1979, when he gained 755 yards from scrimmage for the Bears. He played in one playoff game, a Bears loss to the Philadelphia Eagles in 1979.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today’s card of the day is Williams’s 1974 University of Colorado Playing card<\/a>. It is part of a deck that includes 40 Colorado players, eleven coaches, the athletic director, and two team logos. There are two versions of the deck: one with a black back, and one with a gold back–Colorado’s school colors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Williams is one of at least fifteen players in the Colorado deck who later played in the NFL. You can see the the full deck<\/a> in the Gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy 70th birthday to Dave Williams! 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