1960 Fleer football card of former Buffalo Bills’ halfback Willie Evans, who spent only the one season with the team, in 1960, the Bills’ inaugural one in the fledgling American Football League. Evans was a local product, attending high school in Buffalo and playing in college for the University of Buffalo, which was a strong Eastern college gridiron program at the time. He was part of the 1958 UB team that made history. The Bulls won the Lambert Trophy as the top college team in the East, winning a bid to play Florida State in the Tangerine Bowl in Orlando, Florida. The team, however, declined the invitation to play in the game after the Bowl committee informed them that Evans and Mike Wilson, both African Americans, were not welcome to play in the game. When his football career ended, Evans taught in Buffalo area schools for over 30 years, and also coached football, tennis and swimming.