Michigan State Alumni Football Cards, page 2
| Image | Set | # | Card Title/Players | Pro Team | Position | College | Honors | Notes | Grades available at Nearmint Sports Cards |
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1956 Topps | 48 | Baltimore Colts Team | Baltimore Colts | This card pictures the 1955 Baltimore Colts team. Hall of Fame NFL coach Don Shula is in the front row. Leroy Vaughn, father of major league baseball's Mo Vaughn, is in the back row. | ||||
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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 | 63 | Pittsburgh Steelers Team | Pittsburgh Steelers | This card pictures the 1955 Steelers team. For a larger version of the image on the card, see the 1955 Pittsburgh Steelers page at steelersuk.com. | ||||
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1956 Topps | 92 | Detroit Lions Team | Detroit Lions | This card pictures the 1955 Lions team. | ||||
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1956 Topps | 97 | Billy Wells | Washington Redskins | halfback | Michigan State | Short print | nm oc | |
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1956 Topps | 113 | New York Giants Team | New York Giants | This card pictures the 1955 New York Giants team. Future Hall of Fame coaches Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry are included in the photo. Lombardi is an assistant coach in the second row, and Landry is a player, also in the second row. | ||||
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1957 Giants Team Issue | Dennis Mendyk | New York Giants | halfback | Michigan State | ||||
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1957 Giants Team Issue | Ray Wietecha | New York Giants | center | Northwestern, Michigan State | ||||
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1957 Topps | 24 | Al Dorow | Washington Redskins | quarterback | Michigan State | |||
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1957 Topps | 37 | Clarence Peaks | Philadelphia Eagles | fullback | Michigan State | Rookie card | ||
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1957 Topps | 97 | Dorne Dibble | Detroit Lions | end | Michigan State | |||
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1957 Topps | 104 | Earl Morrall | San Francisco 49ers | quarterback | Michigan State | Rookie card Morrall is shown here with the 49ers, but the 49ers traded him to the Pittsburgh Steelers before the start of the 1957 season. |
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1957 Topps | 122 | Ray Wietecha | New York Giants | center | Northwestern, Michigan State | |||
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1957 Topps | 137 | Lynn Chandnois | Pittsburgh Steelers | halfback | Michigan State | |||
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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 | 49 | Billy Wells | Pittsburgh Steelers | halfback | Michigan State | Error card The back of this card says Wells went to the University of Michigan, but he went to Michigan State. |
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1958 Topps | 57 | Earl Morrall | Pittsburgh Steelers | quarterback | Michigan State | Morrall placed fourth in voting for the 1955 Heisman Trophy. See the Gallery's page of football cards of Heisman candidates. | ||
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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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1958 Topps | 110 | Baltimore Colts Team | Baltimore Colts | The picture on this card was taken in 1957, but before the team's roster was final. Some of the players in the photo were drafted by the Colts in 1957, but they did not play in the regular season. | ||||
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1958 Topps | 115 | Detroit Lions Team | Detroit Lions | This card pictures the 1957 Detroit Lions team. Click here to see a large, black-and-white copy of this image. This was the last Lions team to win the NFL title; they beat the Browns 59-14 in the championship game. | ||||
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1958 Topps CFL | 20 | Paul Dekker | Hamilton Tiger-Cats | end | Michigan State | Dekker played for the NFL's Washington Redskins in 1953. | ||
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1959 Bell Brand Rams | 35 | Sam Williams | Los Angeles Rams | end, linebacker | Michigan State | |||
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1959 Kahns | Jim Ninowski | Cleveland Browns | quarterback | Michigan State | ||||
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1959 Topps | 8 | Clarence Peaks | Philadelphia Eagles | fullback | Michigan State | ex+ | ||
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1959 Topps | 99 | Ray Wietecha | New York Giants | center | Northwestern, Michigan State | nm |
