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1967 Philadelphia Gum Football Card Checklist 1967 PHILADELPHIA GUM FOOTBALL CARD CHECKLIST 1 Atlanta Falcons (Team Card) 2 Junior Coffey 3 Alex Hawkins 4 Randy Johnson 5 Lou Kirouac 6 Billy Martin 7 Tommy Nobis 8 Jerry Richardson 9 Marion Rushing 10 Ron Smith 11 Ernie Wheelwright (Card is misspelled Wheelright) 12 Atlanta Falcons (Insignia) 13 Baltimore Colts (Team Card) 14 Raymond Berry 15 Bob Boyd 16 Ordell Braase 17 Alvin Haymond 18 Tony Lorick 19 Lenny Lyles 20 John Mackey 21 Tom Matte 22 Lou Michaels 23 John Unitas 24 Baltimore Colts (Insignia) 25 Chicago Bears (Team Card) 26 Rudy Buckich 27 Ron Bull 28 Dick Butkus 29 Mike Ditka 30 Dick Gordon 31 Roger Leclerc 32 Bennie McRae 33 Richie Petitbon 34 Mike Pyle 35 Gale Sayers 36 Chicago Bears (Insignia) 37 Cleveland Browns (Team Card) 38 John Brewer 39 Gary Collins 40 Ross Fichtner 41 Ernie Green 42 Gene Hickerson Compliments of BaseballCardBinders.com© 2019 1 43 Leroy Kelly 44 Frank Ryan 45 Dick Schafrath 46 Paul Warfield 47 John Wooten 48 Cleveland Brown (Insignia) 49 Dallas Cowboys (Team Card) 50 George Andrie 51 Cornell Green 52 Bob Hayes 53 Chuck Howley 54 Lee Roy Jordan 55 Bob Lilly 56 Dave Manders 57 Don Meredith 58 Dan Reeves 59 Mel Renfro 60 Dallas Cowboys (Insignia) 61 Detroit Lions (Team Card) 62 Roger Brown 63 Gail Cogdill 64 John Gordy 65 Ron Kramer 66 Dick LeBeau 67 Mike Lucci 68 Amos Marsh 69 Tom Nowatzke 70 Pat Studstill 71 Karl Sweetan 72 Detroit Lions (Insignia) 73 Green Bay Packers (Team Card) 74 Herb Adderly 75 Lee Roy Caffey 76 Willie Davis 77 Forrest Gregg 78 Henry Jordan 79 Ray Nitschke 80 Dave Robinson 81 Bob Skoronski 82 Bart Starr 83 Willie Wood 84 Green Bay Packers (Insignia) 85 Los Angeles Rams (Team Card) 86 Dick Bass 87 Maxie Baughan 88 Roman Gabriel 89 Bruce Gossett Compliments of BaseballCardBinders.com© 2019 2 90 Deacon Jones 91 Tommy McDonald 92 Marlin McKeever 93 Tom Moore 94 Merlin Olsen 95 Clancy Williams 96 Los Angeles Rams (Insignia) 97 Minnesota Vikings (Team Card) 98 Grady Alderman 99 Bill Brown 100 Fred Cox 101 Paul Flatley 102 Dale Hackbart 103 Jim Marshall 104 Tommy Mason 105 Milt Sunde 106 Fran Tarkenton 107 Mick Tingelhoff 108 Minnesota Vikings (Insignia) 109 New York Giants (Team Card) 110 Henry Carr 111 Clarence Childs 112 Allen Jacobs 113 Homer Jones 114 Tom Kennedy 115 Carl Lockhart 116 Joe Morrison 117 Francis Peay 118 Jeff Smith 119 Aaron Thomas 120 New York Giants (Insignia) 121 New Orleans Saints (Insignia) 122 Charlie Bradshaw 123 Paul Hornung 124 Elbert Kimbrough 125 Earl Leggett 126 Obert Logan 127 Riley Mattson 128 John Morrow 129 Bob Scholtz 130 Dave Whitsell 131 Gary Wood 132 New Orleans Saints (121 On Reverse) 133 Philadelphia Eagles (Team Card) 134 Sam Baker 135 Bob Brown 136 Timmy Brown Compliments of BaseballCardBinders.com© 2019 3 137 Earl Gros 138 Dave Lloyd 139 Floyd Peters 140 Pete Retzlaff 141 Joe Scarpati 142 Norm Snead 143 Jim Skaggs 144 Philadelphia Eagles (Insignia) 145 Pittsburgh Steelers (Team Card) 146 Bill Asbury 147 John Baker 148 Gary Ballman 149 Mike Clark 150 Riley Gunnels 151 John Hilton 152 Roy Jefferson 153 Brady Keys 154 Ben McGee 155 Bill Nelsen 156 Pittsburgh Steelers (Insignia) 157 St.Louis Cardinals (Team Card) 158 Jim Bakken 159 Bobby Joe Conrad 160 Ken Gray 161 Charley Johnson 162 Joe Robb 163 Johnny Roland 164 Roy Shivers 165 Jackie Smith 166 Jerry Stovall 167 Larry Wilson 168 St. Louis Cardinals (Insignia) 169 San Francisco 49ers (Team Card) 170 Kermit Alexander 171 Bruce Bosley 172 John Brodie 173 Bernie Casey 174 Tommy Davis 175 Howard Mudd 176 Dave Parks 177 John Thomas 178 Dave Wilcox 179 Ken Willard 180 San Francisco 49ers (Insignia) 181 Washington Redskins (Team Card) 182 Charlie Gogolak 183 Chris Hanburger Compliments of BaseballCardBinders.com© 2019 4 184 Len Hauss 185 Sonny Jurgensen 186 Bobby Mitchell 187 Brig Owens 188 Jim Shorter 189 Jerry Smith 190 Charley Taylor 191 A.D. Whitfield 192 Washington Redskins (Insignia) 193 Cleveland Browns (Play Card) 194 New York Giants (Play Card) 195 Atlanta Falcons (Play Card) 196 Referee Signals 197 Checklist No. 1 (#1-99) 198 Checklist No. 2 (#100-198) Compliments of BaseballCardBinders.com© 2019 5.
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