1972 O-Pee-Chee CFL Ed McQuarters #83 1967 Schenley Award Winner Saskatchewan Roughriders

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1972 O-Pee-Chee CFL Ed McQuarters #83 1967 Schenley Award Winner Saskatchewan Roughriders There is a reason vintage dealers single out the Ed McQuarters card whenever a sheet of 1972 O-Pee-Chee CFL Riders surfaces, because number 83 gives you one of the most quoted quotes in franchise history. The back bills Ed as a six-year veteran who had earned All-Canadian honours three times and won the 1967 Schenley Award as the Canadian Football League's most outstanding lineman, with the cartoon panel proudly captioned most outstanding lineman in both languages. That sits inside O-Pee-Chee's 132-card CFL set, the last of its era, packed in ten-cent wax with bubble gum, team by team, the chase card being Joe Theismann's rookie at 27 and the prize for Saskatchewan collectors being the green-and-white run from 79 to 92. McQuarters was the prototype of the era's dominant interior rusher, a 6-foot-2, 250-pound import from Oklahoma whose motor never dropped, and he remains a fixture on the Roughriders' all-time teams lists, beloved in Regina as the anchor of defenses that kept this working-class franchise in the national conversation through the 1960s and into the 1972 Grey Cup season. Pairing him on the front of this card with Gary Brandt at 87 and Ron Lancaster at 79 recreates a spine of that team in three purchases, which is precisely how this set was designed to be collected by team. the front's most obvious fault is a diagonal crease line across the upper left corner that cuts faintly into the red banner lettering, and a matching soft corner at upper left; the left edge shows light whitening along the border. The face is otherwise rich and clean, the big white number partially hidden behind the black name line, a print-centering quirk of this specific card rather than damage. The back shows honest age, blue ink still deep, with tan freckling across the lower field and a small corner ding. This is a genuine Canadian O-Pee-Chee bilingual back with English and French paragraphs, not a puzzle back. We grade it VG-EX 3.5, discounting for the corner crease while crediting the strong photo and intact banner. A raw 1972 O-Pee-Chee CFL Ed McQuarters #83 is a Hall-of-Fame-tier story at a beginner price, and it ships sleeved and rigid. Grade Estimate: VG-EX 3.5