Checklist 1955 All-American custom football cards

Until now, there has been no place where all of my custom cards could be found in checklist form.  It is my intention to update this posting as new cards are created. Similar checklists for my other baseball, non-sports and football custom cards will also be posted and updated as appropriate.

Custom card availability. Unless noted, all of my custom cards are available to collectors for $9.95 each, postpaid. To order, email me at scbcguy@yahoo.com for directions on paying via check/money order, or to my PayPal account.

1955 Topps All-American
101 Peyton Manning, Tennessee
102 Bill Cosby, Temple
103 Tony Dorsett, Pitt
104 Lou Gehrig, Columbia
105 Ricky Williams, Texas
106 Sonny Sixkiller, Washington
107 Bobby Layne, Texas
108 Alan Page, Notre Dame
109 Jack Kennedy, Harvard
110 Christy Mathewson, Bucknell
111 Zonker Harris, Walden
112 Joe Namath, Alabama
113 Dan Marino, Pitt
114 Duke Morrison, USC
115 Bart Starr, Alabama
116 Mark Harmon, UCLA
117 Timmy Chang, Hawaii
118 Archie Manning, Ole Miss
119 Johnny Unitas, Louisville
120 Billy Clyde Puckett, Texas Christian
121 Brian Bosworth, Oklahoma
122 Emmitt Smith, Florida
123 Lynn Swann, USC
124 Terry Bradshaw, La. Tech
125 Conrad Dobler, Wyoming
126 Maurice Clarett, Ohio State
127 Erick Dickerson, So. Methodist
128 Brian Urlacher, New Mexico
129 Tim Rossovich, USC
130 Erik Jensen, Iowa
131 Jack Tatum, Ohio State 
132 Hugh McAloon, UW-Oshkosh
133 Bobby Kennedy, Harvard

134 Bo Jackson, Auburn
135 Tim Biakabutuka, Michigan
136 Archie Griffin, Ohio State
137 Doak Walker, So. Methodist
138 Randall Cunningham, UNLV
139 Joe Kennedy, Harvard
140 Sam Huff, West Virginia
141 Glenn Davis, Army
142 Pat Tillman, Arizona State
143 Billy Cannon, Louisiana State
144 Alan Ameche, Wisconsin
145 Kurt Warner, No. Iowa
146 Ben Roethlisberger, Miami (Ohio)
147 Marcus Allen, USC
148 Bronko Nagurski, Minnesota
149 Herman Wedemeyer, St. Mary's
150 Dick Butkus, Illinois
151 Bob Griese, Purdue
152 Randy Moss, Marshall
153 Dwayne Johnson, Miami
154 Michael Vick, Virginia Tech
155 Brett Favre, So. Mississippi
156 Ron Dayne, Wisconsin
157 Doug Flutie, Boston College
158 Vince Lombardi, Fordham
159 Jim Brown, Syracuse
160 Tommy Nobis, Texas
161 Motts Tonelli, Notre Dame
162 Fran Tarkenton, Georgia

163 Forrest Gump, Alabama
164 Marshall Faulk, San Diego State
165 Jim Kelly, Miami
166 Ladainian Tomlinson, Texas Christian
167 Alex Karras, Iowa
168 The Three Stooges, Boulder Dam
169 Herschel Walker, Georgia
170 Paul Hornung, Notre Dame
171 Ernie Davis, Syracuse
172 Jerry Rice, Miss. Valley State
173 Kirk Gibson, Michigan State
174 Ted Kennedy, Harvard
175 Don Meredith, So. Methodist
176 Deacon Jones, Mississippi Vocational
177 Kenny Washington, UCLA
178 Ed Marinaro, Cornell
179 Walter Payton, Jackson State
180 Bill Shakespeare, Notre Dame
181 Bobby Moore, Oregon
182 Joe Montana, Notre Dame
183 Barry Sanders, Oklahoma State
184 Jerome Bettis, Notre Dame
185 Jackie Robinson, UCLA
186 Gale Sayers, Kansas
187 Jim Plunkett, Stanford
188 Buddy Reynolds, Florida State
189 Chris Weinke, Florida State
190 Mike Singletary, Baylor
191 O.J. Simpson, USC
192 Reggie White, Tennessee
193 Jerry Ford, Michigan
194a Troy Aikman, Oklahoma
194b Tory Aikman, UCLA
195 Bubba Smith, Michigan State
196 Deion Sanders, Florida State
197 Eli Manning, Ole Miss
198 Lawrence Taylor, North Carolina
199 John Elway, Stanford
200 Bluto Blutarsky, Faber
201 Dick Nixon, Whittier
202 Dutch Reagan, Eureka
203 Dwight Eisenhower, Army
204 John Taylor, Delaware State
205 Blanchard & Davis, Army
206 Drew Bledsoe, Washington State
207 Kyle Rote, So. Methodist
208 Ron Kramer, Michigan
209 Bob Waterfield, UCLA
210 Chuck Knox, Juniata
211 Arnold Tucker, Army
212 Ray Nitschke, Illinois
213 Steve Garvey, Michigan State
214 Bill Goldberg, Georgia
215 Chuck Bednarik, Penn
216 Tim Tebow, Florida
217 Harry Agganis, Boston
218 Jim McMahon, Miami
219 Austen Lane, Murray State
220 Joe Guyon, Georgia Tech
221 Roman Gabriel, N.C. State
222 Rocky Bleier, Notre Dame
223 Jim Bond, Michigan State
224 Johnny Sample, Maryland State
225 Frank Thomas, Auburn
226 Ray Guy, So. Mississippi
227 Carl Weathers, San Diego State
228 Ted Kluszewski, Indiana
229 Moose Skowron, Purdue
230 Robert Urich, Florida State
231 Aaron Rodgers, California
232 William Perry, Clemson
233 Michael Oher, Ole Miss
234 Jack Ham, Penn State
235 Franco Harris, Penn State
236 Joe Perry, Compton
237 Joe Paterno, Brown
238 Troy Polamalu, USC
239 Fuzzy Thurston, Valparaiso
240 Jim Taylor, Louisiana State

241 Sonny Jurgensen, Duke
242 Jackie Jensen, California
243 Tommy Lee Jones, Harvard
244 Joe Greene, North Texas
245 Roger Staubach, Navy
246 Lee Corso, Florida State
247 Kirk Jerbstreit, Ohio State
248 Robert Griffin III, Baylor
249a Russell Wilson, N.C. State
249b Russell, Wilson, Wisconsin
250 Raymond Berry, So. Methodist
251 Woody Strode, UCLA
252 Phil Robertson, La. Tech
253 Jerry Kramer, Idaho
254 Bear Bryant, Alabama
255 Charley Trippi, Georgia
256 Wilmer Sidat-Singh, Syracuse
257 Texas QB Trio
258 Steve Young, Brigham Young
259 Joe Kapp, California
260 Ollie Matson, San Francisco
261 Burt Toler, San Francisco
262 Babe Parilli, Kentucky
263 Donny Anderson, Texas Tech
264 Jameis Winston, Florida State
265 Montee Ball, Wisconsin
266 Brian Piccolo, Wake Forest
267 Pat O'Dea, Wisconsin
268 Melvin Gordon, Wisconsin
269 Tim Davis, Alabama
270 Frank Gifford, USC
271 Mike Tomlin, William & Mary
272 Aaron Rodgers, Butte
273 Brian Stann, Navy

274 Dak Prescott, Mississippi State
275 Keenan Reynolds, Navy

Jim Brown 1957 Topps-style custom

The 1957 Topps football card set included cards of three of the Top 10 draft picks in the 1957 NFL Draft conducted on Nov. 26, 1956.

The set had cards of No. 1 draft pick Paul Hornung, No. 7 Clarence Peaks and No. 10 Jerry Tubbs. Notably absent was a card for No. 6 selection, Jim Brown.

Along with 2nd round pick Jon Arnett, 4th rounder Ron Kramer, and No. 9 pick Don Bosseler, Brown didn't make his Topps card debut until the 1958 set. (Jim Parker, pick #8, didn't appear until 1959, #3 selection John Brodie didn't debut until 1961 and No. 5 pick, Len Dawson, didn't get a Topps rookie card until the 1964 set.)

My most recent 1950s Topps-style custom card imagines what a 1957 Jim Brown rookie card might have looked like.

Notice that his name appears as "Jimmy" Brown.  Topps used that version on its 1958-62 cards. The gum company did not go with "Jim" until its final Brown card, in the 1963 set.

By contrast, Fleer in 1961, Post in 1962 and Philadelphia 1964-66, all used the "Jim" appellation. 

There were lots of cartoon choices for the back of my 1957 Jim Brown card. Unfortunately, I couldn't use my No. 1 choice, a cartoon figure of a lacrosse player on the back of card #25, Eagles end Thomas Scott. That lacrosse player was white and my photoshop skills are just not sufficient for me to convert that image to a black man without making him look like a character in black-face. 

So I went with cartoons from the backs of '57T card #128 Lennie Moore and #64 Maurice Bassett. Bassett was out of the NFL after the 1956 season, but he is shown with the Cleveland Browns in the '57 set, wearing #32, the number Brown wore during his career in the NFL.

You can order this card. Unless noted, all of my custom cards are available to collectors for $12.50 each, postpaid for one or two cards; $9.95 each for three or more (mix/match). To order, email me at scbcguy@yahoo.com for directions on paying via check/money order, or to my PayPal account.