Texas Southern Alumni Football Cards
Image | Set | # | Card Title/Players | Pro Team | Position | College | Honors | Notes | Grades available at Nearmint Sports Cards |
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1960 Bills Team Issue | Jim Sorey | Buffalo Bills | defensive tackle | Texas Southern | Sorey played for the Bills for three seasons, 1960 to 1962. He was the head coach at Texas Southern University in 1979 and 1980. | |||
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1965 Topps | 116 | Winston Hill | New York Jets | tackle | Texas Southern | Jets Ring of Honor 2010, Pro Football Hall of Fame 2020 | Rookie card | PSA 8, PSA 7 |
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1966 Coke Caps Giants G | G35 | Homer Jones | New York Giants | end | Texas Southern | |||
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1966 Coke Caps Jets | J18 | Winston Hill | New York Jets | tackle | Texas Southern | Jets Ring of Honor 2010, Pro Football Hall of Fame 2020 | ||
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1966 Norfolk Neptunes | Herman Driver | Norfolk Neptunes | end | Texas Southern | Driver played for the Neptunes in 1965, 1966, and part of 1967. He finished the 1967 season with the Wheeling Ironmen. | |||
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1966 Topps | 92 | Winston Hill | New York Jets | tackle | Texas Southern | Jets Ring of Honor 2010, Pro Football Hall of Fame 2020 | ||
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1967 Milton Bradley | 95 | Winston Hill | New York Jets | tackle | Texas Southern | Jets Ring of Honor 2010, Pro Football Hall of Fame 2020 | ||
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1967 Philadelphia | 113 | Homer Jones | New York Giants | end | Texas Southern | Rookie card, double print Jones led the NFL with 13 touchdown catches in 1967. |
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1967 Topps | 50 | W.K. Hicks | Houston Oilers | defensive back | Texas Southern | Rookie card Hicks led the AFL with 9 interceptions in 1965. |
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1967 Topps | 95 | Winston Hill | New York Jets | tackle | Texas Southern | Jets Ring of Honor 2010, Pro Football Hall of Fame 2020 | ||
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1968 Topps | 31 | Homer Jones | New York Giants | end | Texas Southern | Error card The back of this card says that "Homer defeated the Russians in the 1960 Olympics," but that is not true. For players who did win Olympic medals, see the Gallery's page of Olympic athletes on vintage football cards. |
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1968 Topps | 45 | Leroy Mitchell | Boston Patriots | defensive back | Texas Southern | Rookie card | exmt | |
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1968 Topps Stand Up | Homer Jones | New York Giants | end | Texas Southern | 1968 was Jones's third straight season with over 1000 receiving yards. | |||
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1968 Topps Test Team Photos | 2 | New Orleans Saints | New Orleans Saints | |||||
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1968 Topps Test Team Photos | 17 | Oakland Raiders | Oakland Raiders | The Raiders arranged themselves in numerical order for this photo, with one exception: number 00, Jim Otto, the Hall of Fame center, is in the center of the front row. | ||||
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1969 Glendale Stamps | Andy Rice | Cincinnati Bengals | defensive tackle | Texas Southern | ||||
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1969 Glendale Stamps | John Douglas | New Orleans Saints | defensive back | Texas Southern | ||||
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1969 Glendale Stamps | Homer Jones | New York Giants | end | Texas Southern | ||||
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1969 Glendale Stamps | Winston Hill | New York Jets | tackle | Texas Southern | Jets Ring of Honor 2010, Pro Football Hall of Fame 2020 | |||
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1969 Saints Doubloons | John Douglas | New Orleans Saints | defensive back | Texas Southern | ||||
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1969 Raiders Team Issue | Warren Wells | Oakland Raiders | wide receiver | Texas Southern | ||||
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1969 Topps | 152 | W.K. Hicks | Houston Oilers | defensive back | Texas Southern | Hicks's full name was Wilmer Kenzie Hicks. | ||
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1969 Topps | 183 | Leroy Mitchell | Houston Oilers | defensive back | Texas Southern | Mitchell did not play in 1969. He missed the season with a neck injury. | ||
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1969 Topps | 244 | Homer Jones | New York Giants | end | Texas Southern | Jones was the first player to "spike" the football after scoring a touchdown. | ||
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1969 Topps 4-in-1 | Reg Carolan, Larry Garron, Pete Jaquess, W.K. Hicks | Reg Carolan never appeared on a regular Topps card. (See my blog article, 1969 Topps 4-in-1 Oddities.) Carolan's son, Brett Carolan, played for the Miami Dolphins and San Francisco 49ers in the mid-1990s. | ||||||
Reg Carolan | Kansas City Chiefs | tight end | Idaho | ||||||
Larry Garron | Boston Patriots | fullback | Western Illinois | ||||||
W.K. Hicks | Houston Oilers | defensive back | Texas Southern | ||||||
Pete Jaquess | Denver Broncos | defensive back | Eastern New Mexico |