1970 O-Pee-Chee Dave Gasser #50 Edmonton Eskimos EX 5

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1970 O-Pee-Chee Dave Gasser #50 Edmonton Eskimos EX 5 Up for individual sale is a 1970 O-Pee-Chee Dave Gasser #50 Edmonton Eskimos EX 5, a single raw card that captures the attitude of vintage Canadian football better than almost any pose in the set. Gasser crouches over the line in his number 65 jersey with hands ready and eyes locked forward, framed by empty grandstand rows and a Boosters Club sign that places the photo day at a sun-drenched western stadium. Collectors chasing the Edmonton team subset of the 115 card 1970 O-Pee-Chee CFL checklist will find this linebacker an honest, affordable, and displayable example, sold on its own so it can go straight into a binder page or a graded pile. The 1970 O-Pee-Chee CFL release remains one of the most recognizable vintage Canadian issues, with its clean white bordered fronts, circular team crests, and backs printed in both English and French. This card carries the classic Canadian O-Pee-Chee bilingual back, not a puzzle back, laid out in white type over a black field with green accents, a cartoon trivia box, and the Printed in Canada imprint that collectors treasure. The set was organized team by team, mirroring the approach of the 1969 Topps NFL cards, and it arrived at a time when the Eskimos were still climbing back toward relevance, having not lifted the Grey Cup since the mid 1950s championship teams. A product of West Texas State University, Gasser served as an import linebacker for Edmonton and earned a reputation as the hardest tackler on the defensive unit, with the card back promising that Dave always comes to play. The 1970 Eskimos surrendered 287 points on the season, which made every stop from the front seven valuable, and the cartoon panel adds campus charm by noting that Dave patrolled the sideline in a club car while a college junior. It is exactly the kind of playful trivia that distinguishes O-Pee-Chee products from their American cousins and keeps collectors smiling five decades later. the front shows bright white borders and confident color with only slight rounding at the two bottom corners and well balanced centering, while the reverse displays scattered light chipping along the black frame and gently worn corner tips, with no creases, wrinkles, or writing anywhere on the card. The black ink back exaggerates harmless handling, so the conservative raw grade estimate is EX 5, an attractive collector grade that photographs nicely and prices sensibly for a working collection. Grade Estimate: EX 5