1924 Lafayette Football Cards
There are 20 cards in the 1924 Lafayette College set. The cards are blank-backed, and they were issued as a set. Six of the players in the set went on to play in the NFL. One of the six, Charlie Berry, also played 13 seasons of major league baseball. Two members of the 1924 Lafayette team, Berry and Coach Herb McCracken, are members of the College Football Hall of Fame.
A big thanks to Carl Lamendola for providing the images for this set.
| Image | Set | # | Card Title/Players | Pro Team | Position | College | Honors | Notes | Grades available at Nearmint Sports Cards |
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1924 Lafayette | Charlie Berry | end | Lafayette | College Hall of Fame 1980 | Berry played two seasons for the NFL's Pottsville Maroons. He also played thirteen seasons of major league baseball, and he appeared on a few baseball cards. See the Gallery's Cards in Multiple Sports page. | |||
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1924 Lafayette | Don Booz | center, tackle | Lafayette | |||||
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1924 Lafayette | William Brown | guard | Lafayette | |||||
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1924 Lafayette | Johnny Budd | guard | Lafayette | Budd played three seasons in the NFL: one for the Frankford Yellow Jackets, and two for the Pottsville Maroons. | ||||
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1924 Lafayette | Frank Chicknoski | halfback | Lafayette | |||||
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1924 Lafayette | Doug Crate | end | Lafayette | |||||
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1924 Lafayette | Robert Duffy | tackle | Lafayette | |||||
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1924 Lafayette | Jack Ernst | quarterback | Lafayette | Ernst played for the NFL's Pottsville Maroons, New York Yankees, Boston Bulldogs, and Frankford Yellow Jackets. | ||||
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1924 Lafayette | Adrian Ford | tackle | Lafayette | Ford played for the NFL's Pottsville Maroons and Frankford Yellow Jackets in 1927. | ||||
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1924 Lafayette | Louis Gebhard | fullback | Lafayette | Error card Gebhard's name is misspelled "Gebhart" on this card. |
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1924 Lafayette | Cullen Gourley | coach | Lafayette | |||||
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1924 Lafayette | Charles Grantier | end | Lafayette | |||||
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1924 Lafayette | William Highberger | tackle | Lafayette | |||||
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1924 Lafayette | Frank Kirkleski | halfback | Lafayette | Kirkleski played four seasons in the NFL: one for the Pottsville Maroons, two for the Orange/Newark Tornadoes, and one for the Brooklyn Dodgers. | ||||
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1924 Lafayette | Daniel Lyons | guard | Lafayette | |||||
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1924 Lafayette | Herb McCracken | coach | Lafayette | College Hall of Fame 1973 | ||||
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1924 Lafayette | Jim McGarvey | halfback | Lafayette | |||||
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1924 Lafayette | Bob Millman | halfback | Lafayette | Millman played three seasons for the NFL's Pottsville Maroons. | ||||
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1924 Lafayette | Sheldon Pollock | center, guard | Lafayette | Pollock played for the Brooklyn Horsemen of the first American Football League in 1926. | ||||
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1924 Lafayette | Bodie Weldon | coach | Lafayette | Weldon played for the Buffalo All-Americans of the American Professional Football Association (APFA) in 1920. The APFA became the NFL in 1922. |