1948 SEMI-FINAL RESULTS: Thank you for all of you who have participated in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project, and if you are unaware of what that is, simply, we acted as if the PFHOF had their first class in January of 1946? We have completed the first two years, where a Preliminary, Semi-Final and Final vote for the 1946 Class, which inducted two full classes For “1948” a Preliminary Vote with 127 players whose playing career ended by 1942. 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, with the top 25 vote getters named as Semi-Finalists. A week later, the voters were asked to pick 15 names from the 25 Semi-Finalists, and next after, they will pick five from the remaining 15. We will continue this process weekly until we catch up to the current year. Following 29 votes received in the 1948 Preliminary Ballot, we had the 30 for the Finals. This is for the “Modern Era” Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals: Player Year of Eligibility Vote Total Pete Henry T 15 28 Duke Slater T 12 28 George Trafton C 12 28 Benny Friedman TB-DB 9 28 Guy Chamberlin E-WB 16 26 Joe Guyon WB-TB-BB-FB 16 25 Johnny Blood TB-HB-WB-BB-DB 5 24 Link Lyman T 9 22 Jimmy Conzelman HB-TB-BB-E 14 21 Verne Llewellen B 10 21 Mike Michalske G-T-LB-BB 9 20 Lavvie Dilweg E 9 19 Cliff Battles TB-FB-WB-DB 6 17 Dutch Sternaman HB-QB-FB 18 17 Clark Hinkle FB-LB-HB-DB 2 17 Ray Flaherty E-DE 8 15 Walt Kiesling G-T 5 14 Ox Emerson G-C 4 14 Swede Youngstrom G-T-E-C 18 13 Steve Owen T-G 10 13 Steamer Horning T 20 9 Turk Edwards T 3 9 Red Badgro E-DE 5 8 Beattie Feathers HB-WB 3 7 Cecil Isbel TB-HB 1 7 This is for the “Senior Era” *Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals: Charles Follis N/A 25 Henry McDonald N/A 19 Ted Nesser N/A 17 Blondy Wallace N/A 16 Sol Butler N/A 13 Next Saturday, we will be posting the results of the 1948 Class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project. Thank you to all who contributed, and if you want to be…