We started our week with a different kind of football, American college football. And this card was a real teaser, but the clue was in the orange box on the reverse, the head of a beaver. This is a team logo - because Mr. Hodgins plays for the Oregon State Beavers football team, otherwise known as Oregon State University in NCAA Division 1 FBS college football.
This card shows Isaiah Hodgins, who, at the time of issue, was playing for Oregon State University - but since then he has moved to the National Football League, or NFL, being drafted by the Buffalo Bills just after this card was issued, and subsequently moving to the New York Giants.
It astounds me just how popular these players can become - for in what is a relatively short span of time, the Trading Card Database/Isaiah Hodgins has him on over five hundred cards.
As for the Oregon State Beavers, they are on almost eight thousand cards - but curiously their first is stated to be the 1960 set of Topps` "Tattoos". I am not so sure about this, as the team began way way back in 1893. Perhaps this is because at that time it was the Oregon Agricultural College, and the link has never been explored ?
This is the basic base set, with white margins, but this is a very baffling set, with lots of specials - fear not, though, for there is a list of all the component parts, and a checklist, at Beckett.com/2020Score.