Oklahoma 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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1953 Rams Team Issue | Stan West | Los Angeles Rams | guard | Oklahoma | West was the Ram's first choice in the 1950 draft. | |||
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1954 Blue Ribbon | Jack Jacobs | Winnipeg Blue Bombers | quarterback, halfback | Oklahoma | Canadian Football Hall of Fame 1963 | |||
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1954 Blue Ribbon | Frank Anderson | Edmonton Eskimos | tackle | Oklahoma | ||||
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1954 Blue Ribbon | Leon Manley | Edmonton Eskimos | tackle, guard | Oklahoma | Manley played for the Green Bay Packers in 1950 and 1951. | |||
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1954 Blue Ribbon | Larry Grigg | Montreal Alouettes | running back, defensive back | Oklahoma | ||||
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1954 Bowman | 103 | Stan West | Los Angeles Rams | guard | Oklahoma | Rookie card | ||
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1954 Rams Team Issue | Stan West | Los Angeles Rams | guard | Oklahoma | nm | |||
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1955 Bowman | 18 | Max Boydston | Chicago Cardinals | end | Oklahoma | Rookie card | ||
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1956 Parkhurst | 2 | Frank Anderson | Edmonton Eskimos | tackle | Oklahoma | |||
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1956 Parkhurst | 35 | Buddy Leake | Winnipeg Blue Bombers | quarterback, kicker | Oklahoma | |||
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1956 Topps | 7 | Green Bay Packers Team | Green Bay Packers | This card pictures the 1955 Packers team. The team photo includes Deral Teteak, a member of the Packers Hall of Fame who never appeared on a card of his own. | ||||
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1956 Topps | 22 | Chicago Cardinals Team | Chicago Cardinals | Short print This card pictures the 1955 Chicago Cardinals team. |
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1956 Topps | 25 | Leon Heath | Washington Redskins | halfback | Oklahoma | Short print According to nfl.com, Heath played in the NFL from 1951 to 1953. I don't know why he appeared on a card in 1956. |
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1956 Topps | 40 | Philadelphia Eagles Team | Philadelphia Eagles | This card pictures the 1955 Philadelphia Eagles team. | ||||
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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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1956 Topps | 120 | Billy Vessels | Baltimore Colts | halfback | Oklahoma | College Hall of Fame 1974, Heisman Trophy 1952 | Rookie card Vessels played for the Edmonton Eskimos, then with the Western Interprovincial Football Union, in 1953. He won the Canadian Rugby Union's most outstanding player award, the Schenley Award, that season. After serving in the U.S. military, Vessels played the 1956 season with the Baltimore Colts. |
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1957 Topps | 29 | Billy Vessels | Baltimore Colts | halfback | Oklahoma | College Hall of Fame 1974, Heisman Trophy 1952 | Vessels did not play in 1957; he left football after the 1956 season. | |
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1957 Topps | 124 | Tommy McDonald | Philadelphia Eagles | end, halfback | Oklahoma | College Hall of Fame 1985, Eagles Honor Roll 1988, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1998 | Rookie card McDonald finished third in voting for the Heisman Trophy in 1956, behind Paul Hornung and John Majors. |
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1957 Topps | 125 | Jerry Tubbs | Chicago Cardinals | linebacker | Oklahoma | College Hall of Fame 1996 | Rookie card Tubbs spent ten seasons in the NFL, playing for the Chicago Cardinals, San Francisco 49ers, and Dallas Cowboys. |
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1957 Topps | 135 | Jimmy Harris | Philadelphia Eagles | defensive back | Oklahoma | Rookie card | ||
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1958 49ers Team Issue | Dennit Morris | San Francisco 49ers | linebacker | Oklahoma | ||||
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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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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. |
