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!

1976 Topps Duane Carrell

1976 Topps Duane Carrell

Happy 75th birthday to Duane Carrell! Carrell was a punter for four...

Thursday, October 03

1979 Ohio State Greats Bob Shaw

1979 Ohio State Greats Bob Shaw

Seventy-four years ago, on October 2, 1950, Bob Shaw of the Chicago...

Wednesday, October 02

1965 Topps Sonny Bishop

1965 Topps Sonny Bishop

Happy 85th birthday to Ervin “Sonny” Bishop! Bishop was an offensive lineman...

Tuesday, October 01

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.