1955 Topps All American Football Checklist

1955 Topps All American Football established an enormous leap forward for football cards and has become one of the most iconic trading card products of all time.

The set, which is the first Topps set to feature short print cards, measures 1/8 inch longer on each side than modern cards and was sold as single cards, nine packs, and 22 packs.

The checklist is a modest 100 cards (1955 Topps Baseball was over 200 cards), probably in part because Topps did not actually have a license to produce professional football cards. That said, nearly 20% of the cards feature future Hall of Fame players including the rookie cards for Mel Hein, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Benny Friedman, Bruiser Kinard, Ace Parker, Don Hutson, and Fats Henry.

Two cards in this set (#14 and #21) have printing errors which were later corrected.

It is possible to piece together a full set via eBay for fairly cheap if condition is of little importance but highly graded cards regularly sell for hundreds of dollars. A PSA-2 of the famous “Four Horsemen” card sold for $72 in 2019, the same week a PSA-8.5 sold for $1,500 after 48 bids.

As a historic set within the hobby and a groundbreaking set for Topps and football cards in general, the small checklist make this a worthwhile set to collect if for no other reason than to say you own it.

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1955 Topps All American Football Checklist

#	Player	RC	Team
1	Herman Hickman	RC	Tennessee
2	John Kimbrough		Texas A&M
3	Ed Weir		Nebraska
4	Erny Pinckert		USC
5	Bob Grayson		Stanford Cardinal
6	Nile Kinnick	RC	Iowa
7	Andy Bershak		North Carolina
8	George Cafego	RC	Tennessee
9	Tom Hamilton		Naval Academy
10	Bill Dudley		Virginia
11	Bobby Dodd		Tennessee
12	Otto Graham		Northwestern
13	Aaron Rosenberg		USC
14	Gaynell Tinsley	RC	LSU
15	Eddie Kaw		Cornell
16	Knute Rockne		Notre Dame
17	Bob Reynolds		Nebraska
18	Pudge Heffelfinger	RC	Yale
19	Bruce Smith		Minnesota
20	Sammy Baugh		TCU
21	Byron White	RC	Colorado
22	Brick Muller		California
23	Dick Kazmaier	RC	Princeton
24	Ken Strong		NYU
25	Cas Myslinski		Army
26	Larry Kelley		Yale
27	Red Grange		Illinois
28	Mel Hein		Washington State
29	Leo Nomellini		Minnesota
30	Wes Fesler		Ohio State
31	George Sauer Sr.	RC	Nebraska
32	Hank Foldberg		Army
33	Bob Higgins		Penn State
34	Davey O’Brien	RC	TCU
35	Tom Harmon	RC	Michigan
36	Turk Edwards		Washington State
37	Jim Thorpe		Carlisle
38	Amos Alonzo Stagg	RC	Yale
39	Brud Holland	RC	Cornell
40	Donn Moomaw		UCLA
41	Joe Alexander		Syracuse
42	Eddie Tryon	RC	Colgate
43	George Savitsky		Pennsylvania
44	Ed Garbisch		Army
45	Elmer Oliphant		Army
46	Arnie Lassman		NYU
47	Bo McMillan	RC	Centre
48	Ed Widseth		Minnesota
49	Don Zimmerman		Tulane
50	Ken Kavanaugh		LSU
51	Duane Purvis		Purdue
52	Johnny Lujack		Notre Dame
53	Jack Green		Army
54	Eddie Dooley		Dartmouth
55	Frank Merritt		Army
56	Ernie Nevers	RC	Stanford Cardinal
57	Vic Hanson		Syracuse
58	Ed Franco		Fordham
59	Doc Blanchard	RC	Army
60	Dan ‘Tiger’ Hill		Duke
61	Charley Brickley		Harvard
62	Harry Newman		Michigan
63	Charlie Justice		North Carolina
64	Benny Friedman	RC	Michigan
65	Joe Donchess		Pittsburgh
66	Bruiser Kinard	RC	Mississippi
67	Frankie Albert		Stanford
68	The Four Horsemen – Harry Stuhldreher, Jim Crowley, Don Miller, Elmer Layden		Notre Dame
69	Frank Sinkwich	RC	Georgia
70	Bill Daddio		Pittsburgh
71	Bob Wilson		SMU
72	Chub Peabody		Harvard
73	Paul Governali		Columbia
74	Gene McEver		Tennessee
75	Hugh Gallarneau		Stanford
76	Angelo Bertelli	RC	Notre Dame
77	Bowden Wyatt		Tennessee
78	Jay Berwanger	RC	Chicago
79	Pug Lund		Minnesota
80	Bennie Oosterbaan		Michigan
81	Cotton Warburton		USC
82	Alex Wojciechowicz		Fordham
83	Ted Coy		Yale
84	Ace Parker	RC	Duke
85	Sid Luckman		Columbia
86	Albie Booth		Yale
87	Germany Schulz		Michigan
88	Ralph Kercheval		Kentucky
89	Marshall Goldberg		Pittsburgh
90	Charley O’Rourke		Boston College
91	Bob Odell		Pennsylvania
92	Biggie Munn		Minnesota
93	Willie Heston		Michigan
94	Chuck Bernard		Michigan
95	Chris Cagle		Army
96	Bill Hollenback		Pennsylvania
97	Don Hutson	RC	Alabama
98	Beattie Feathers		Tennessee
99	Don Whitmire		Alabama / Navy
100	Fats Henry	RC	Washington and Jefferson