University Alumni Sets

duner

I was curious, if anybody else pondered the ideas of registry sets of alums from various universities??? I personally can't help but constantly buying cards of players from my various alma maters. Kind of curious about others' thoughts are. For basketball in particular the sets would be relatively easy to collate even for the most prominent schools and the player selections would for the most part be great. while on the football side bohemoth sets from some universities would exist (figuring miami puts 20+ in the nfl/year) probably making it less desirable.

goodriddance189

i have a collection of Texas Longhorns PSA graded cards (even though i go to Texas Tech), but i only collect cards of guys in their UT uniforms

achtey

This isn't really a card way of supporting my school, but whenever I play madden 2004, I always trade for the one player that was drafted from my division 3 school. I think it's cool to see him on the game.

goodriddance189

i traded for Chris Simms after my first season in madden, and spent the entire preseason trying to make him into a competent qb. failed miserably. guess art really does imitate life.

PeterAldridge

these are really nice and can be gotten pretty cheap too! elway's went for just 38 bucks and this tony dorsett went for less than 5 bucks!

CoachHouston247

Goodriddance

I also traded for Chris, and in his 2nd year , he is the leading MVP candidate. It just shows Mack Brown can't get the most out of his players. ( But I also drafted Roy Williams, Rashaun Woods, and Reggie Williams as his receivers and that probably helps a lot)

Houston

murcerfan

In 1888, several years after American football began its rise as a staple college sport, a cigarette card of Yale's Henry Beecher appeared, courtesy of the Goodwin & Co. The Beecher card was part of the 1888 Goodwin Champions collection, a series of 50 tobacco cards produced by Goodwin in 1888. The cards were nationally distributed in packages of Old Judge & Gypsy Queen cigarettes. The tobacco card premium shows the athlete posed above an illustration of the relevant sport.

Henry Beecher's card was the only football card among the other sports, including wrestling, boxing and baseball. The Beecher card is widely regarded as the first football card produced.

With the flood gates opened, football trading card would flourish over the next 125 years, beginning with the first football tobacco card set released in 1894. This was the Mayo Cut Plug set, which consisted of 36 cards of Harvard, Yale and Princeton players wearing turtleneck sweaters and hooded sweat shirts sporting the names of their teams in large letters.