Some 1960 Topps football cards from Tim Cowlishaw's personal collection including Jim Brown and Y.A. Tittle.(Tim Cowlishaw / Tim Cowlishaw) The first to show up was Y.A. Tittle, a highly ...

The 1950s saw a renaissance in football cards with Bowman and Topps producing some of the most iconic cards ever. ... 2. 1950 Bowman Y.A. Tittle. Image Courtesy of PSA.

Tittle, a great quarterback at LSU and later in the NFL, has died. While he never won a championship, Tittle was the first pro football player to be featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

Y.A. Tittle helped the NFL evolve from its run-centric roots into a passing league. Getty Images Pro Football Hall of Famer Yelberton Abraham (Y.A.) Tittle has died at the age of 90.

That was Y.A. Tittle, ... The 49ers signed him in 1951 after the original Baltimore Colts of the All-American Football Conference folded. Tittle would replace Frankie Albert, ...

In 2013, The Baltimore Sun caught up with Y.A. Tittle, then 86, who recalled his playing days with the Colts more than half a century earlier. Tittle died Sunday; this is a reprint of that article.

Yelberton Abraham Tittle, better known as Y.A. Tittle, has died at age 90. He passed away Sunday night at Stanford Hospital near his home in Atherton, Calif. Tittle was a great quarterback for ...

Y.A. Tittle, a Hall of Fame quarterback who became a master of the long pass in 17 rugged, occasionally bloody seasons of pro football, winning nearly every honor and title save a championship ...

Y.A. Tittle, the prolific Hall of Fame quarterback who powered the San Francisco 49ers and New York Giants in the 1950s and '60s, died Sunday. He was 90. LSU, his alma mater, confirmed the news on ...

Y.A. Tittle, the first and only LSU quarterback elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, has died at age 90, according to LSU deputy athletic director Verge Ausberry.