Mel Triplett Football Cards

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Image	Set	#	Card Title/Players	Pro Team	Position	College	Honors	Notes	Grades available at Nearmint Sports Cards
	1956 Giants Team Issue		Mel Triplett	New York Giants	fullback	Toledo
	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.
	1957 Giants Team Issue		Mel Triplett	New York Giants	fullback	Toledo
	1959 Topps	133	New York Giants Team	New York Giants				Though printed in 1959, this card pictures the 1958 New York Giants team. There is a larger copy of the image on the Giants web site. The picture includes two players who would later become stars in the AFL: Jack Kemp is number 17 in the front row, and Don Maynard is number 13, two rows behind Kemp.
	1959 Topps	160	Mel Triplett	New York Giants	fullback	Toledo		Rookie card	exmt
	1960 Topps	73	Mel Triplett	New York Giants	fullback	Toledo		Triplett was inducted into the University of Toledo Varsity 'T' Hall of Fame in 1983.
	1961 Topps	86	Mel Triplett	New York Giants	fullback	Toledo		Triplett's younger brother, Bill Triplett, also played in the NFL.
	1962 Post Cereal	185	Mel Triplett	Minnesota Vikings	fullback	Toledo
	1962 Topps	93	Mel Triplett	Minnesota Vikings	fullback	Toledo		Short print The black-and-white insert photo on this card also appeared on the cover of the New Orleans Saints 1969 Topps Mini-Card Album.
	1963 Topps	100	Mel Triplett	Minnesota Vikings	fullback	Toledo			nm
	1969 Topps Mini-Card Albums		New Orleans Saints	New Orleans Saints				The player on the cover of this album is Mel Triplett, playing for the 1961 Minnesota Vikings. Topps also used the same image seven years earlier, as the insert photo on Triplett's 1962 Topps football card.