1970 O-Pee-Chee CFL Garney Henley #16 Hall of Fame Hamilton Tiger-Cats VG-EX 4

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1970 O-Pee-Chee CFL Garney Henley #16 Hall of Fame Hamilton Tiger-Cats VG-EX 4 Garney Henley did not just play Canadian football, he redefined what one athlete could be asked to do on a field, and this second copy of his 1970 O-Pee-Chee CFL card, number 16 in the set and photographed in the middle-right front slot of the nine-card sleeve, puts that greatness within reach at a meaningful discount, priced for the visible crease detailed honestly below. Henley arrived in Hamilton in 1960 from little Huron College in South Dakota and spent the next decade and a half humbling opponents on both sides of the ball, a defensive back who intercepted the league's best quarterbacks and a receiver who glided past their best cover men, often in the same afternoon. The bilingual back of this card carries one of the great hobby compliments of its era: Garney is one of the best all-round athletes ever to come to Canada, it reads in English and French, noting too that he coached basketball at the University of Guelph in the off-season, while the green cartoon panel announces simply that Garney is good in all sports. The championship record speaks in full voice: Grey Cup victories with the Tiger-Cats in 1963, 1965, 1967 and 1972, the last of those a 13 to 10 classic at Ivor Wynne Stadium, plus the 1972 CFL Most Outstanding Player Award and a 1979 induction into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame that formalized what every eye already knew. The 1970 O-Pee-Chee CFL issue remains the definitive cardboard portrait of that peak, Canadian-printed, English and French on the black reverse with PRINTED IN CANADA along the edge, and a rich colour front portrait with the Tiger-Cats roundel bright at lower right. Even with a crease, Henley is consistently among the most sought-after names in the set, and a candidly graded copy like this is how most collectors will realistically add him without paying star-card money. Searching for a 1971 O-Pee-Chee CFL Garney Henley #16 Hall of Fame Hamilton Tiger-Cats VG-EX 4 brings you straight to this listing. the front shows a visible light-to-moderate crease crossing the lower area of the portrait near the name band, small chips along the right border edge, and mild wear at all four corner tips, with centering acceptable and colour still strong across the photo; applying the page-flip mapping, this card's reverse appears at the middle-left of the back scan and shows the corresponding crease line through the black background with whitish stress swirls along its path, together with light corner touches and faint scuffing, the bilingual text remaining clean and the green cartoon panel sharp. This is the Canadian O-Pee-Chee bilingual back version of the card, not a puzzle back. Grade Estimate: VG-EX 4