Reconstructing 1957 Topps Football uncut sheets

[nearmint]

This one was an ordeal to figure out, Chuck Drazenovich is above Torgy Torgeson in the 10th column.

Impressive, Cliff!

[Cliff Bowman]

Clarence Peaks is under Johnny Olszewski in the third column, that means I can hook up Watkins-Marchetti to Peaks and create a near comple row of Watkins-Marchetti-Peaks-Soltau-Summerall-Sherman-Heinrich-Hanner-Mathews-Drazenovich-?, currently missing the 11th right edge card.

[Cliff Bowman]

While trying to figure out who is above Carl Tasseff (who is a header card) I compared all 45 remaining cards to the Tasseff miscut and it has to be Hugh McElhenny, none of the other cards are anywhere close. With Tom Wilson to the right of McElhenny that makes a near complete new row of McElhenny-Wilson-?-?-Webster-Meilinger-Starr-Dibble-Root-Ford-Berry.

[Cliff Bowman]

#16 John Johnson is above #75 Sid Hudson, that makes Johnson the missing 11th card in the Watkins row and completes it at Watkins-Marchetti-Peaks-Soltau-Summerall-Sherman-Heinrich-Hanner-Mathews-Drazenovich-J Johnson.

[Cliff Bowman]

The puzzle pieces are falling into place now, Hirsch is in C11 of the Retzlaff row because he is above John Johnson, this in turn puts Bielski in C11 of the Stonesifer row because Bielski is above Hirsch per the site, which in turn puts Brito in C10 of the Stonesifer row because Brito is to the left of Bielski per the site, Tittle is in C10 of the Retzlaff row and Brewster is in C9 of the Retlaff because they are above Mathews and Drazenovich of the Watkins row per the site.

[Cliff Bowman]

This leaves 13 open slots, C3 and C4 of the McElhenny row, C4-C9 of the Stonesifer row, and C4-C8 of the Retzlaff row. There is a two card combo of Christiansen-Chandnois per the site, a two card combo of Butler-Ameche per the site, a three card combo of Boyd-Gifford-Howton per the site, a five card combo of Forester-Rogel-Womble-Bassett-B Wilson, and a loose card of Jeter. I have a miscut Jack Butler that shows the bottom of the cartoon of the card to its left that has a distinctive stray black line. I was able to match it up perfectly to Howton, so that creates a five card run of Boyd-Gifford-Howton-Butler-Ameche. This forces the two card combo of Christiansen-Chandnois into C3 and C4 of the McElhenny row.

[Cliff Bowman]

This leaves 11 open slots, C4-C9 of the Stonesifer row and C4-C8 of the Retzlaff row. There are two 5 card runs, Forester-Rogal-Womble-Bassett-B Wilson and Boyd-Gifford-Howton-Butler-Ameche, and a loose card of Jeter. That means Jeter is in either C4 or C9 of the Stonesifer row and the two 5 card combos go into the two open 5 card slots. Hopefully new miscuts can be found to place those cards.