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The Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project: 1971 Semi-Final VOTE

28 Dec
2024
Not in Hall of Fame

1971 SEMI-FINAL RESULTS:

Thank you for all of your participation in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project. If you are unaware of what that is, we acted like the PFHOF had its first class in January 1946.

We have completed the years up to 1970.

For “1971,” a Preliminary Vote with nearly 100 players whose playing career ended by 1965. We are also following the structure in that players have 20 years of eligibility, and if they do not make it into the Hall, they are relegated to the Senior Pool.

Each voter was asked to select 25 names from the preliminary list, and the top 25 vote-getters were named Semi-Finalists.

A week later, the voters were asked to pick 15 names from the 25 Semi-Finalists, and next week, they will pick five from the remaining 15. We will continue this process weekly until we catch up to the current year.

30 Votes took place, with the top fifteen advancing.

This is for the “Modern Era”

Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals:

Player

Year of Eligibility

Vote Total

Jim Brown FB

1

29

Dick “Night Train” Lane DB

1

29

Joe Schmidt LB

1

29

Hugh McElhenny HB

2

28

Rosey Brown T

1

21

Pat Harder FB

13

20

Alan Ameche FB

6

20

Mike McCormack T-G

4

20

Charlie Conerly QB

5

19

Billy Howton E-FL

3

17

Marshall Goldberg T

18

16

Gene Lipscomb DT

4

16

Bucko Kilroy G-MG-T-DT

11

15

Ward Cuff WB-QB-HB

19

11

Bill Osmanski FB

19

10

Tank Younger FB-LB-HB

8

9

Billy Wilson E-FL

6

9

Les Richter LB-C

4

9

Woody Strode E

17

7

Frankie Albert QB

14

7

Harlon Hill E-DB

4

7

Jim Ray Smith G-T

2

6

Charley Brock C-HB-FB

19

5

Spec Sanders TB

16

5

Bruno Banducci G

12

5

Vic Sears T-DT

13

4


This is for the “Senior Era”

*Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals:

Buckets Goldenberg

1

16

Byron “Whizzer” White

5

16

Joe Kopcha

10

14

Ace Gutkowski

7

12

Al Nesser

14

7

None of the Above

 

3

T
his is for the “Senior Era”

*Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals:

COMM Bert Bell

2

25

Coach Clark Shaughnessy

2

17

Owner: Tim Mara

2

15

Coach: Buddy Parker

1

13

Coach: Greasy Neale

1

9

We will post the Class of the 1971 Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project next Saturday.

Thank you to all who contributed. If you want to be part of this project, please let us know!

Kirk Buchner, "The Committee Chairman", is the owner and operator of the site.  Kirk can be contacted at kirk.buchner@notinhalloffame.com . Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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