Illinois Alumni Football Cards, page 4
| Image | Set | # | Card Title/Players | Pro Team | Position | College | Honors | Notes | Grades available at Nearmint Sports Cards |
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1956 Topps | 61 | Washington Redskins Team | Washington Redskins | Short print This card pictures the 1955 Washington Redskins team. About 15 of the players never appeared on cards of their own. |
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1956 Topps | 94 | Chuck Ulrich | Chicago Cardinals | defensive tackle | Illinois | Short print | ||
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1956 Topps | 96 | Buddy Young | Baltimore Colts | halfback | Illinois | College Hall of Fame 1968 | ||
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1956 Topps | 119 | Chicago Bears Team | Chicago Bears | This card pictures the 1955 Chicago Bears team. One of the players on the card, Harry Hugasian, played part of the 1955 season for the Baltimore Colts, and he also appears on the Colts team card. | ||||
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1957 Topps | 79 | J.C. Caroline | Chicago Bears | defensive back | Illinois | College Hall of Fame 1980 | Rookie card Caroline played for the Toronto Argonauts and Montreal Alouettes in 1955, then joined the Bears in 1956. He played for the Bears until 1965. |
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1957 Topps | 136 | Chuck Ulrich | Chicago Cardinals | defensive tackle | Illinois | |||
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1958 49ers Team Issue | Abe Woodson | San Francisco 49ers | defensive back | Illinois | ||||
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1958 Topps | 9 | Cleveland Browns Team | Cleveland Browns | This photo pictures the 1957 Browns team. Number 48, sixth from the left in the second row, is decathlete Milt Campbell, who won the silver medal at the Helsinki Olympics in 1952 and the gold medal at Melbourne in 1956. After one season with the Browns, Campbell played several years in the the Canadian Football League. | ||||
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1958 Topps | 69 | Chicago Cardinals Team | Chicago Cardinals | This card pictures the 1957 Chicago Cardinals team. Click here to see a large, black-and-white copy of this image. Dick Lane, in the upper right corner of the photo, appears to have been cut-and-pasted in. | ||||
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1958 Topps | 109 | Philadelphia Eagles Team | Philadelphia Eagles | This card pictures the 1957 Philadelphia Eagles team. Click here to see a large, black-and-white copy of this image. One of the players on the card, Bill Koman, also appears on the Baltimore Colts team card. The Colts released Koman before the season, and the Eagles picked him up. | ||||
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1959 Kahns | Bobby Mitchell | Cleveland Browns | halfback | Illinois | Browns Ring of Honor 2010, Commanders Ring of Fame , Pro Football Hall of Fame 1983 | Mitchell had the NFL's longest run in 1959, 90 yards. | ||
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1959 Topps | 57 | Chuck Ulrich | Chicago Cardinals | defensive tackle | Illinois | exmt | ||
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1959 Topps | 102 | Abe Woodson | San Francisco 49ers | defensive back | Illinois | Rookie card Woodson had a 105-yard kick return in 1959, longest in the NFL. He also led the league in average yards per kick return, with 29.4. |
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1959 Topps | 140 | Bobby Mitchell | Cleveland Browns | halfback | Illinois | Browns Ring of Honor 2010, Commanders Ring of Fame , Pro Football Hall of Fame 1983 | Rookie card | exmt+ |
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1959 Topps | 159 | Stan Wallace | Chicago Bears | defensive back | Illinois | Rookie card | ||
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1960 Bills Team Issue | Tom O'Connell | Buffalo Bills | quarterback | Illinois | O'Connell played NFL's Chicago Bears and Cleveland Browns before signing with Buffalo. He played for the Bills for two seasons, 1960 and 1961. | |||
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1960 Fleer | 19 | Tom O'Connell | Buffalo Bills | quarterback | Illinois | O'Connell averaged 11.17 yards per pass attempt for the Browns in 1957; this is one of the oldest NFL records. | ||
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1960 Kahns | Rich Kreitling | Cleveland Browns | end | Illinois | Kreitling played for the Browns from 1959 to 1963, and for the Chicago Bears in 1964. | |||
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1960 Kahns | Bobby Mitchell | Cleveland Browns | halfback | Illinois | Browns Ring of Honor 2010, Commanders Ring of Fame , Pro Football Hall of Fame 1983 | PSA 6 | ||
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1960 Topps | 25 | Bobby Mitchell | Cleveland Browns | halfback | Illinois | Browns Ring of Honor 2010, Commanders Ring of Fame , Pro Football Hall of Fame 1983 | Mitchell was the 1958 NFL Rookie of the Year. | |
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1960 Topps | 120 | Abe Woodson | San Francisco 49ers | defensive back | Illinois | Woodson had the longest punt return in the NFL in 1960, a 48-yarder. He also led the league in total punt return yards and average yards per punt return. | ||
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1961 Browns Team Issue 6x9 | Bobby Mitchell | Cleveland Browns | halfback | Illinois | Browns Ring of Honor 2010, Commanders Ring of Fame , Pro Football Hall of Fame 1983 | |||
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1961 Fleer | 7 | J.C. Caroline | Chicago Bears | defensive back | Illinois | College Hall of Fame 1980 | In 1953, as a sophomore at Illinois, Caroline lead the nation in rushing. He placed seventh in voting for the Heisman Trophy that season. See the Gallery's page of football cards of Heisman candidates. | |
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1961 Fleer | 12 | Bobby Mitchell | Cleveland Browns | halfback | Illinois | Browns Ring of Honor 2010, Commanders Ring of Fame , Pro Football Hall of Fame 1983 | ||
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1961 Fleer | 65 | Abe Woodson | San Francisco 49ers | defensive back | Illinois |
