1975 Fleer Immortal Roll Football Cards
1975 Fleer Immortal Roll cards, also known as 1975 Fleer Hall of Fame cards, were inserts in packs of 1975 Fleer Football Patches. There are 84 cards in the set: one for each member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame as of 1975, except Jim Brown. (I don't know why Brown was excluded.) Fifty of the Hall of Famers had appeared in the 1974 Fleer Immortal Roll set, and for those subjects Fleer used the same images in 1975. The 1974 and 1975 cards are similar but easily distinguishable: the 1974 cards have a white border, and the 1975 cards have a brown border. For the subjects who appeared in both sets, the backs of the 1974 and 1975 cards are identical, except that the 1975 cards are numbered.
As with the 1974 set, the best feature of the 1975 Immortal Roll set is that it includes some NFL pioneers who had not appeared on cards before. Joe Guyon, Link Lyman, George Trafton, and Ed Healey are a few examples. After this set was issued, every Hall of Famer appeared on at least one card.
Image | Set | # | Card Title/Players | Pro Team | Position | College | Honors | Notes | Grades available at Nearmint Sports Cards |
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1975 Fleer Immortal Roll | Jim Thorpe | halfback | Carlisle | College Hall of Fame 1951, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1963 | Thorpe is a member of the NFL's 40-and-over club. | ||||
1975 Fleer Immortal Roll | Cliff Battles | tailback, defensive back | West Virginia Wesleyan | College Hall of Fame 1955, Commanders Ring of Fame , Pro Football Hall of Fame 1968 | |||||
1975 Fleer Immortal Roll | Bronko Nagurski | fullback, linebacker | Minnesota | College Hall of Fame 1951, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1963 | Nagurski's number, 3, is one of 14 that have been retired by the Chicago Bears. See the Gallery's retired numbers page for the retired numbers of all of the NFL teams. | ||||
1975 Fleer Immortal Roll | Red Grange | quarterback | Illinois | College Hall of Fame 1951, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1963 | |||||
1975 Fleer Immortal Roll | Guy Chamberlin | end, coach | Nebraska, Nebraska Wesleyan | College Hall of Fame 1962, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1965 | |||||
1975 Fleer Immortal Roll | Joe Carr | president | Pro Football Hall of Fame 1963 | ||||||
1975 Fleer Immortal Roll | George Halas | coach, end | Illinois | Pro Football Hall of Fame 1963 | |||||
1975 Fleer Immortal Roll | Jimmy Conzelman | quarterback, coach | Washington (St. Louis) | Cardinals Ring of Honor 2006, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1964 | |||||
1975 Fleer Immortal Roll | George McAfee | halfback | Duke | College Hall of Fame 1961, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1966 | |||||
1975 Fleer Immortal Roll | Clarke Hinkle | fullback | Bucknell | College Hall of Fame 1971, Packers Hall of Fame 1972, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1964 | |||||
1975 Fleer Immortal Roll | Paddy Driscoll | quarterback | Northwestern | Cardinals Ring of Honor 2006, College Hall of Fame 1974, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1965 | |||||
1975 Fleer Immortal Roll | Mel Hein | center | Washington State | College Hall of Fame 1954, Giants Ring of Honor 2010, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1963 | |||||
1975 Fleer Immortal Roll | John McNally | end | Notre Dame, St. Johns (MN) | Packers Hall of Fame 1970, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1963, Steelers Hall of Honor 2017 | |||||
1975 Fleer Immortal Roll | Dutch Clark | quarterback | Colorado College | College Hall of Fame 1951, Pride of the Lions 2009, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1963 | Clark's full name was Earl Harry Clark. | ||||
1975 Fleer Immortal Roll | Steve Owen | tackle, coach | Phillips | Giants Ring of Honor 2010, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1966 | nm | ||||
1975 Fleer Immortal Roll | Bill Hewitt | end | Michigan | Eagles Honor Roll 1987, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1971 | Hewitt's number, 56, is one of fourteen jersey numbers that the Bears have retired. See the Gallery's retired numbers page for the retired numbers of all of the NFL teams. | ||||
1975 Fleer Immortal Roll | Cal Hubbard | tackle | Centenary, Geneva | College Hall of Fame 1962, Packers Hall of Fame 1970, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1963 | After football, Hubbard was an umpire in major league baseball for 16 years. He was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976. See his 1955 Bowman baseball card on the Gallery's Cards in Multiple Sports page. | ||||
1975 Fleer Immortal Roll | Don Hutson | end | Alabama | College Hall of Fame 1951, Packers Hall of Fame 1972, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1963 | |||||
1975 Fleer Immortal Roll | Ernie Nevers | fullback | Stanford | Cardinals Ring of Honor 2006, College Hall of Fame 1951, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1963 | Nevers was a pitcher with the St. Louis Browns baseball team from 1926 to 1928. In 1927, he gave up two home runs to Babe Ruth, who broke the major league record with 60 that year. | exmt | |||
1975 Fleer Immortal Roll | Dan Fortmann | guard | Colgate | College Hall of Fame 1978, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1965 | |||||
1975 Fleer Immortal Roll | Ken Strong | halfback | NYU | College Hall of Fame 1957, Giants Ring of Honor 2010, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1967 | nm+ | ||||
1975 Fleer Immortal Roll | Chuck Bednarik | center, defensive tackle | Pennsylvania | College Hall of Fame 1969, Eagles Honor Roll 1987, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1967 | |||||
1975 Fleer Immortal Roll | Bert Bell | coach, commissioner | Pennsylvania | Eagles Honor Roll 1987, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1963 | |||||
1975 Fleer Immortal Roll | Paul Brown | coach | Miami Ohio | Bengals Ring of Honor 2021, Browns Ring of Honor 2010, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1967 | |||||
1975 Fleer Immortal Roll | Art Donovan | defensive tackle | Boston College, Notre Dame | Pro Football Hall of Fame 1968, Ravens Ring of Honor 2002 |