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The Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project: 1976 Semi-Final VOTE

The Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project: 1976 Semi-Final VOTE
12 Apr
2025
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1976 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 1975.

For “1976,” a Preliminary Vote with nearly 100 players whose playing career ended by 1970. 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.

32 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

Tommy McDonald FL-WR

3

30

Jerry Kramer G

3

28

Henry Jordan DT-DE

2

25

Alex Karras DT

1

25

Billy Howton E-FL

8

24

Paul Hornung HB

5

23

Billy Shaw G

2

23

Pat Harder FB

18

22

Joe Fortunato LB

5

22

Jimmy Patton DB

5

20

Del Shofner E-DB

4

18

Tom Sestak DT

3

18

Eddie Meador DB

1

18

Gino Cappelletti FL-SE-DB-WR-K

1

17

Billy Wilson E-FL

11

16

Pete Retzlaff E-HB-TE

5

15

Bobby Boyd

3

15

Alan Ameche FB

11

14

Gene Lipscomb DT

9

12

Charlie Conerly QB

10

11

Art Powell E

3

9

Roger Brown DT

2

9

Tank Younger FB-LB-HB

13

8

Abe Woodson DB

5

8

Rosey Grier DT-DE

5

6

Les Richter LB-C

9

4

Cookie Gilchrist FB

4

4

Dave Grayson DB

1

4

  

This is for the “Senior Era”

*Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals:

 

Player

Year of Eligibility

Vote Total

Whizzer White

10

16

Marshall Goldberg

3

15

Woody Strode

1

11

Al Nesser

19

13

Buckets Goldenberg

6

13

Ward Cuff

4

9

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

OWNER: Lamar Hunt

1

30

COACH Buddy Parker

7

28

OWNER: Charles Bidwill

7

12

COACH Greasy Neale

7

9

OWNER: Dan Reeves

7

4

 

We will post the Class of the 1976 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!

Committee Chairman

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

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