Uncut Sheets of 1956 Topps Football Cards

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The pictures below show what I believe is the configuration of an uncut sheet of 1956 Topps football cards. To get the two half-sheets below, I started with a picture of a partial sheet that appeared on the SCP Auctions web site. That gave me the top six rows of the one half-sheet. I then found pictures of several more uncut panels on eBay.

Together, the various panels show the following pattern:

Each row contains cards from a single team.
In most rows, the players are ordered alphabetically by last name. There are three exceptions: Billy Wells and Joe Scudero are switched in the row of Redskins, Roosevelt Grier and Alex Webster are switched in the row of Giants, and Les Richter and Dan Towler are out of place in the row of Rams. It is possible that there are more exceptions, but the panels I have seen cover most of the full sheet, so if there are other exceptions, I wouldn't expect more than one or two.
Each team's team photo appears on either the left or right end of the row.
The rows on the first half-sheet are in alphabetical order by city, starting at the bottom: first Baltimore, then the Chicago Bears, then Cleveland, etc. One team does not fit the pattern: the Chicago Cardinals, whom you would expect to be next to the Bears, do not appear the first sheet. The second half-sheet starts with the Cardinals in the bottom row, completing the set. The sequence then starts over with Baltimore, the Chicago Bears, etc. (In an earlier version of this page, before I saw the uncut panels on eBay, I had guessed that the row of Cardinals was above the row of Bears.)
The last two teams in the sequence, the Washington Redskins and Chicago Cardinals, appear only once on the full sheet. All of the other teams appear twice, thus the Redskins and Cardinals are short prints.

Following is the configuration of the first half-sheet. If you hold your cursor over a card in the virtual sheet, your browser should show you the number of the card and the name of the player. Clicking on a card will bring up the full-sized scan. (A real uncut sheet would not have lines between the cards--that's an effect of scanning them individually.)

This is how the cards on the first half-sheet were numbered:

109	1	37	25	13	49	73	97	85	61
26	38	50	14	74	110	2	86	98	62
39	111	27	51	75	99	15	87	3	63
40	4	76	28	52	16	64	112	100	88
41	77	53	5	65	29	17	89	101	113
114	42	78	66	54	6	102	18	30	90
115	103	79	31	19	43	91	55	67	7
92	20	8	32	80	104	116	68	44	56
21	57	9	33	105	117	81	93	69	45
11	23	35	47	59	71	83	95	107	119
48	12	24	36	60	72	84	108	120	96

This was the configuration of the second half-sheet:

This is how the cards on the second half-sheet were numbered:

26	38	50	14	74	110	2	86	98	62
39	111	27	51	75	99	15	87	3	63
40	4	76	28	52	16	64	112	100	88
41	77	53	5	65	29	17	89	101	113
114	42	78	66	54	6	102	18	30	90
115	103	79	31	19	43	91	55	67	7
92	20	8	32	80	104	116	68	44	56
21	57	9	33	105	117	81	93	69	45
11	23	35	47	59	71	83	95	107	119
48	12	24	36	60	72	84	108	120	96
22	10	34	58	118	106	82	70	46	94

Note that the short print cards, the Redskins and Cardinals, were on the top and bottom edges of the sheet. This made them susceptible to damage in production, and thus even scarcer in higher grades.

For more virtual uncut sheets, see the Gallery's master uncut sheet page.

109	1	37	25	13	49	73	97	85	61
26	38	50	14	74	110	2	86	98	62
39	111	27	51	75	99	15	87	3	63
40	4	76	28	52	16	64	112	100	88
41	77	53	5	65	29	17	89	101	113
114	42	78	66	54	6	102	18	30	90
115	103	79	31	19	43	91	55	67	7
92	20	8	32	80	104	116	68	44	56
21	57	9	33	105	117	81	93	69	45
11	23	35	47	59	71	83	95	107	119
48	12	24	36	60	72	84	108	120	96

26	38	50	14	74	110	2	86	98	62
39	111	27	51	75	99	15	87	3	63
40	4	76	28	52	16	64	112	100	88
41	77	53	5	65	29	17	89	101	113
114	42	78	66	54	6	102	18	30	90
115	103	79	31	19	43	91	55	67	7
92	20	8	32	80	104	116	68	44	56
21	57	9	33	105	117	81	93	69	45
11	23	35	47	59	71	83	95	107	119
48	12	24	36	60	72	84	108	120	96
22	10	34	58	118	106	82	70	46	94

109	1	37	25	13	49	73	97	85	61
26	38	50	14	74	110	2	86	98	62
39	111	27	51	75	99	15	87	3	63
40	4	76	28	52	16	64	112	100	88
41	77	53	5	65	29	17	89	101	113
114	42	78	66	54	6	102	18	30	90
115	103	79	31	19	43	91	55	67	7
92	20	8	32	80	104	116	68	44	56
21	57	9	33	105	117	81	93	69	45
11	23	35	47	59	71	83	95	107	119
48	12	24	36	60	72	84	108	120	96

26	38	50	14	74	110	2	86	98	62
39	111	27	51	75	99	15	87	3	63
40	4	76	28	52	16	64	112	100	88
41	77	53	5	65	29	17	89	101	113
114	42	78	66	54	6	102	18	30	90
115	103	79	31	19	43	91	55	67	7
92	20	8	32	80	104	116	68	44	56
21	57	9	33	105	117	81	93	69	45
11	23	35	47	59	71	83	95	107	119
48	12	24	36	60	72	84	108	120	96
22	10	34	58	118	106	82	70	46	94

109	1	37	25	13	49	73	97	85	61
26	38	50	14	74	110	2	86	98	62
39	111	27	51	75	99	15	87	3	63
40	4	76	28	52	16	64	112	100	88
41	77	53	5	65	29	17	89	101	113
114	42	78	66	54	6	102	18	30	90
115	103	79	31	19	43	91	55	67	7
92	20	8	32	80	104	116	68	44	56
21	57	9	33	105	117	81	93	69	45
11	23	35	47	59	71	83	95	107	119
48	12	24	36	60	72	84	108	120	96

26	38	50	14	74	110	2	86	98	62
39	111	27	51	75	99	15	87	3	63
40	4	76	28	52	16	64	112	100	88
41	77	53	5	65	29	17	89	101	113
114	42	78	66	54	6	102	18	30	90
115	103	79	31	19	43	91	55	67	7
92	20	8	32	80	104	116	68	44	56
21	57	9	33	105	117	81	93	69	45
11	23	35	47	59	71	83	95	107	119
48	12	24	36	60	72	84	108	120	96
22	10	34	58	118	106	82	70	46	94