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The Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project: 1974 Semi-Final VOTE

The Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project: 1974 Semi-Final VOTE
01 Mar
2025
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1974 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 1973.

For “1974,” a Preliminary Vote with nearly 100 players whose playing career ended by 1968. 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.

31 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

Lou Groza T-PK

2

29

John Henry Johnson FB-HB

3

28

Bobby Mitchell FL-HB-WR

1

26

Stan Jones G-DT-T

3

25

Mike McCormack T

7

24

Jerry Kramer G

1

24

Tommy McDonald FL-WR

1

24

Paul Hornung HB

3

21

Joe Fortunato LB

3

19

Del Shofner E-DB

2

19

Alan Ameche FB

9

18

Billy Howton E-FL

6

18

Tom Sestak DT

1

18

Pat Harder FB

16

16

Gene Lipscomb DT

7

15

Jimmy Patton DB

3

14

Bobby Boyd

1

14

Woody Strode E

20

13

Charlie Conerly QB

8

13

Art Powell E

1

13

Bucko Kilroy G-MG-T-DT

14

10

Rosey Grier DT-DE

3

10

Fuzzy Thurston G

2

10

Tank Younger FB-LB-HB

11

9

Cookie Gilchrist FB

2

8

Pete Retzlaff E-HB-TE

3

6

 

This is for the “Senior Era”

*Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals:

Player

Year of Eligibility

Vote Total

Ward Cuff

2

15

Buckets Goldenberg

4

15

Marshall Goldberg

1

15

Whizzer White

8

13

Bill Osmanski

2

12

None of the Above

 

3

 

This is for the “Coaches/Contributors Era”

*Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals:

Player

Year of Eligibility

Vote Total

COACH Buddy Parker

5

30

COACH Clark Shaughnessy

5

27

OWNER: Charles Bidwill

5

13

COACH Greasy Neale

5

8

OWNER: Dan Reeves

4

6

 

We will post the Class of the 1974 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!

Last modified on Saturday, 01 March 2025 15:52
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