Welcome to the Vintage Football Card Gallery!

The Vintage Football Card Gallery has thousands of pictures of old football cards, dating from 1888 to 1979. You can search the Gallery by player, set, team, college, and other criteria. The Gallery includes descriptions of the sets, trivia about the cards and players, and other fun odds and ends. Scroll down and explore!

Card of the Day

Check out the latest articles in my Vintage Football Card of the Day blog!

1980 Topps Beasley Reece

1980 Topps Beasley Reece

Happy 70th birthday to Beasley Reece! Reece was a defensive back for...

Monday, March 18

1965 Lions Coke Caps Ernie Clark

1965 Lions Coke Caps Ernie Clark

Ernie Clark, who played linebacker for six seasons in the NFL, passed...

Sunday, March 17

1977 Holsum Bread Sammy White

1977 Holsum Bread Sammy White

Happy 70th birthday to Sammy White! White played wide receiver for the...

Saturday, March 16

Card Categories

The cards in the gallery are organized by set, and the sets are grouped into categories. Click on a category below to see the sets it contains. (Most sets appear in more than one category.) You can also search the Gallery via the methods in the Searches section below.

Searches

You can search the Gallery for your favorite player, team, or college. You can also search for cards of players who have received various honors, such as the Outland Trophy or induction into the Chiefs Hall of Fame. Finally, the Advanced Search page lets you combine searches: you can search for all Detroit Lions who have won the Heisman Trophy, for example.

Features

The Gallery includes the following fun and useful features:

Vintage Football Cards for Sale

The cards pictured in the Gallery are not for sale, but I do have a sales site called Nearmint's Vintage Football Cards. Please visit!

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And More...

Here are a few miscellaneous pages. Some are dated but still worth a look.

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