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Classic Sports Card of The Day

02 Oct

1954 Bowman football card of former pro football end Gordy Soltau, who played 9 seasons in the NFL for the San Francisco 49ers. He played in the wild and wooly decade of the 1950s, and was a three-time Pro Bowler and named All Pro in 1952. Soltau held the 49ers’ team record for points in a single game (26) for 39 years until Jerry Rice broke it. A Navy veteran who was a “Frogman” that specialized in underwater demolition during World War II, he is also a member of the 49ers’ team Hall of Fame. Soltau passed away in 2014 at the age of 89.

 

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