1972 O-Pee-Chee Pro Action #122 Test Your Football I.Q. East West Rushing Leaders 1971

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1972 O-Pee-Chee Pro Action #122 Test Your Football I.Q. East West Rushing Leaders 1971 Own a piece of the record books with the 1972 O-Pee-Chee Pro Action #122 Test Your Football I. Q. East West Rushing Leaders 1971, a fan-favorite trivia card that perfectly captures the statistical storytelling O-Pee-Chee brought to Canadian football collectors in its legendary final CFL set. Imagine opening a wax pack in the summer of 1972 for ten cents and pulling this bright green-backed quizzer that immediately pitted East against West, a rivalry that defined the CFL then and now. This card is number 122 within the 132-card 1972 O-Pee-Chee CFL master set, positioned deep in the fourteen-card Pro Action Test Your Football I. Q. run from 118 to 131 that featured red-bordered action photography on the front and educational cartoon quizzes on the back, all produced exclusively in Canada with complete bilingual presentation. The front image offers a gritty Pro Action moment under the classic PRO ACTION banner, while the back steals the show with the question Who led the East and West in rushing in 1971 and the French Qui finit en tête dans l’Est et dans l’Ouest pour les courses au sol en 1971, illustrated with two sprinting backs labeled EAST and WEST and the answers printed upside down for the big reveal. Read closely and you relive the 1971 season where Leon McQuay of the Toronto Argonauts pounded for 977 yards to top the East and BC Lions superstar Jim Evenson powered for 1,237 yards to lead the West, with full stats listed for Roy Bell, Jim Evenson, and Leon McQuay, giving this card direct historical connection to the Lions workhorse who also appears elsewhere in this very sheet. It was a year when 1,000-yard rushers were celebrated like rock stars and when the CFL’s ground game dominated highlight reels on black and white television, and O-Pee-Chee immortalized that excitement with these interactive backs that kids flipped and quizzed each other on long before fantasy apps existed. The 1972 O-Pee-Chee Pro Action #122 Test Your Football I. Q. East West Rushing Leaders 1971 is therefore both a collectible and a documented stat line, ideal for team collectors, set builders, or anyone chasing the Jim Evenson name in another form. This is a Canadian O-Pee-Chee bilingual back and is not a puzzle back, with the familiar green quiz field, blue cartoon figures, and tan cardboard, marked PRINTED IN CANADA and O. P. C., and condition analysis under the sleeve shows authentic vintage character. Corners are lightly softened with the top left showing the most rounding and a pinhead of whitening, the red border on the front exhibits faint edge chipping and a touch of wear at the midpoints, no creases, wrinkles, or surface indentations are observed and the gloss remains adequate with minor print grain, centering measures approximately 60/40 left to right on the front and the back text block is centered slightly high but remains fully intact. Based on the cumulative corner and edge wear combined with the otherwise clean presentation, a conservative grade estimate of VG-EX 4 is appropriate, reflecting an honest mid-grade example with excellent color and quiz legibility that will display beautifully in any vintage CFL lineup. Grade Estimate: VG-EX 4