1961 Topps CFL Football Cards
There are 132 cards in the 1961 Topps CFL football card set. The set would have fit exactly twice on a full 264-card sheet, so there are no short prints or double prints. One strange (and annoying) feature of the set is that the backs of half of the player cards are oriented one way, and the backs of the rest are turned 180 degrees. Every sixth card or so, the orientation of the back is flipped. Topps did not do this in their 1961 NFL/AFL set, and I can't even guess at a reason they would have done it in their CFL set.
One notable player in the 1961 Topps CFL set is Jim G. Taylor, whose picture Topps mistakenly used on the 1959 and 1960 Topps cards of Jim C. Taylor, the Packers great. Another is Bronko Nagurski Jr., the son of the NFL Hall of Famer.
| Image | Set | # | Card Title/Players | Pro Team | Position | College | Honors | Notes | Grades available at Nearmint Sports Cards |
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1961 Topps CFL | 1 | By Bailey | BC Lions | fullback | Washington State | Canadian Football Hall of Fame 1975 | ||
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1961 Topps CFL | 2 | Bruce Claridge | BC Lions | end | Washington | Claridge's younger brother, Pat Claridge, also played in the CFL. | exmt | |
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1961 Topps CFL | 3 | Norm Fieldgate | BC Lions | end, linebacker | British Columbia | Canadian Football Hall of Fame 1979 | nm oc | |
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1961 Topps CFL | 4 | Willie Fleming | BC Lions | halfback | Iowa | Canadian Football Hall of Fame 1982 | Two player cards in the 1961 Topps CFL set are oriented horizontally. One is this card; the other is Stan Wallace. | |
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1961 Topps CFL | 5 | Urban Henry | BC Lions | tackle | Georgia Tech | |||
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1961 Topps CFL | 6 | Bill Herron | BC Lions | end | Georgia | |||
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1961 Topps CFL | 7 | Tom Hinton | BC Lions | tackle | Louisiana Tech | Canadian Football Hall of Fame 1991 | ||
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1961 Topps CFL | 8 | Sonny Homer | BC Lions | halfback | Grays Harbor | |||
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1961 Topps CFL | 9 | Bob Jeter | BC Lions | defensive back | Iowa | Packers Hall of Fame 1985 | Jeter played two seasons for the B.C. Lions before going to the Packers. | |
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1961 Topps CFL | 10 | Vic Kristopaitis | BC Lions | guard, kicker | Dayton | |||
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1961 Topps CFL | 11 | Baz Nagle | BC Lions | halfback | ||||
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1961 Topps CFL | 12 | Ron Watton | BC Lions | center | ||||
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1961 Topps CFL | 13 | Joe Yamauchi | BC Lions | guard, fullback | Eastern Washington | |||
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1961 Topps CFL | 14 | Bob Schloredt | BC Lions | quarterback | Washington | |||
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1961 Topps CFL | 15 | B.C. Lions Team | BC Lions | nm+ oc | ||||
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1961 Topps CFL | 16 | Ron Allbright | Calgary Stampeders | guard, tackle | Error card Allbright's last name is misspelled "Albright" on this card. Allbright was added to the Stampeders' Wall of Fame in 2014. |
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1961 Topps CFL | 17 | Gordon Brown | Calgary Stampeders | guard | St. Martin's | |||
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1961 Topps CFL | 18 | Jerry Doucette | Calgary Stampeders | quarterback, punter | exmt | |||
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1961 Topps CFL | 19 | Gene Filipski | Calgary Stampeders | halfback | Villanova, Army | |||
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1961 Topps CFL | 20 | Joe Kapp | Calgary Stampeders | quarterback | California | Canadian Football Hall of Fame 1984, College Hall of Fame 2004 | ||
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1961 Topps CFL | 21 | Earl Lunsford | Calgary Stampeders | fullback | Oklahoma State | Canadian Football Hall of Fame 1983 | ||
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1961 Topps CFL | 22 | Don Luzzi | Calgary Stampeders | tackle | Villanova | Canadian Football Hall of Fame 1986 | exmt | |
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1961 Topps CFL | 23 | Bill McKenna | Calgary Stampeders | end | Brandeis | exmt | ||
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1961 Topps CFL | 24 | Ron Morris | Calgary Stampeders | halfback | Tulsa | |||
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1961 Topps CFL | 25 | Tony Pajaczkowski | Calgary Stampeders | guard | Canadian Football Hall of Fame 1988 | Pajaczkowski was the CFL's Canadian Player of the Year in 1961. | nm+ oc |