Reconstructing 1957 Topps Football uncut sheets

[stevepoland]

I'm down a rabbits hole trying to figure this puzzle out. There's a fantastic resource of partial sheets here: https://www.footballcardgallery.com/...et/1957_Topps/

The set is 154 cards total. People discuss it as being 1-88 low number cards and 89-154 as high number cards. There's speculation this was released as two series', but the author of the above article disagrees with that.

It seems this year they used 264-card sheet, cut in half, thus 132 card sheet [12x11].

I've read some posts about earlier Topps Baseball sheets, and I've seen '77' talked about, which would be 7 rows [I call them rows, the author above calls them columns] -- and then 5 rows. Ironically, the big partial sheet we have is 7 rows [77] cards.

Given the author's partials, I have determined that card 43 is printed 3x somehow on the sheets. The same can be told for others, but this card for sure. Each row [looks like a column in the author's post] are the same, but then duplicated in various spots.

I'm trying to determine how these 154 cards would have been arranged on the sheets, and whether it's just two 132 card sheets, or if there were more.

I'm hoping someone might be aware of an earlier Topps (1957+) baseball set/series in which I might be able to see some madness to how they placed these rows on the sheet. It seems that there's always 2 rows of low-numbers or 2 rows of high-numbers next to each other.

I also wonder if things are broken up as 88 and 66. I'm kind of with the opinion that the sheets/cards were all released at the same time, but I'm having a hard time determining how some cards are printed 3 different times (given the partials we have) -- and my only explainer would be that: if 2 132-card sheets, then maybe the row with 43 is printed twice on one sheet (next to different rows) and printed once on the second sheet? Otherwise, there are four total 132-card sheets if there were indeed two series released? [Maybe the 7-row partial sheet we have, which has 4-rows of high-numbers, then has one row of low numbers missing and then the same 4-rows of high numbers are reprinted on the same sheet? And maybe the second sheet has the remaining high numbers printed on it, with low number rows as fillers too?]

Any help or reference to other 1957+ Topps series/sets/uncuts are appreciated for trying to determine how these 1-88 and 89-154 cards were printed on these sheets.