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The Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project: 1947 FINAL VOTE

Here we are! Again!! If you have been following our Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project, you know that we have asked the rhetorical question…what if the PFHOF began in January of 1946? After soliciting and obtaining a passionate group of football fans and historians, we sent out a ballot for a Preliminary Vote, which we asked each voter to give us 25 names as their semi-finalists, and 5 in the Senior Pool. Following that, we asked the group to vote for their 15 Finalists in the Modern Era, and 3 in the Senior Category. The final stage was to vote for their 5 Modern Era inductees and 1 Senior inductee. This is the result of the second official class; Below, are the final results of this project based on 30 votes: This is for the “Modern Era” *Bold indicates they have been elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Class of 1946: Player Year of Eligibility Vote Total Ernie Nevers FB 11 25 Cal Hubbard T-E-DE-G 6 19 Dutch Clark TB 4 14 Ed Healey T-G-E 16 12 Paddy Driscoll HB-QB-TB-BB 13 12 Pete Henry T 14 11 George Trafton C 11 10 Johnny Blood TB-HB-WB-BB-DB 4 10 Guy Chamberlin E-WB 15 9 Benny Friedman TB-DB 8 9 Duke Slater T 11 7 Lavvie Dilweg E 8 6 Clark Hinkle FB-LB-HB-DB 1 6 Joe Guyon WB-TB-BB-FB 15 4 Link Lyman T 8 1 This is for the “Senior Era” *Bold indicates they have been elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Class of 1946: John Brallier                         N/A                      14 Charles Follis                         N/A                      12 Blondy Wallace                         N/A                      5 About the 1947 Inductees: Ernie Nevers FB, DUL 1926-27, CRD 1929-31: Inducted in 1947 on the 2nd Ballot (technically his 11th year of eligibility). Was inducted into the actual Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963. Stanford Head Coach, Pop Warner, called Ernie Nevers a “player without a fault” and if that does not say it all, we don’t know what does. Following his career at Stanford, Nevers first played professional football for a team in Jacksonville, Florida, which he left to play professional baseball for the St. Louis Browns. When the Browns season ended, the dual-sport star returned to the gridiron for the Duluth Eskimos, where the team played 29 Games (14 official in the NFL) and Nevers allegedly played every…


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