1949 PRELIMINARY 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 “1949” a Preliminary Vote with 130 players whose playing career ended by 1943. 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. Last week, each voter was asked to select 25 names from the preliminary list, with the top 25 vote getters named as Semi-Finalists. This week, 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. 29 Votes took place This is for the “Modern Era” Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals: Player Year of Eligibility Vote Total Johnny Blood TB-HB-WB-BB-DB 6 30 Bronko Nagurski G-LB                              1 28 Lavvie Dilweg E 10 27 Cliff Battles TB-FB-WB-DB 7 27 Mike Michalske G-T-LB-BB 7 26 Link Lyman T 10 25 Clark Hinkle FB-LB-HB-DB 3 24 Verne Llewellen B 12 23 Jimmy Conzelman HB-TB-BB-E 15 21 Joe Guyon WB-TB-BB-FB 17 21 Ray Flaherty E-DE 8 21 Dutch Sternaman HB-QB-FB 17 19 Danny Fortmann G-LB 1 19 Tuffy Leemans FB-TB-DB-QB 1 17 Ox Emerson G-C 6 15 Walt Kiesling G-T 6 14 Bill Hewitt E-DE 1 14 Swede Youngstrom G-T-E-C 17 13 Steve Owen T-G 11 13 Red Badgro E-DE 8 11 Hunk Anderson G-C 19 10 Cecil Isbell TB-HB 2 10 Turk Edwards T 4 9 Cub Buck T 19 8 Beattie Feathers HB-WB 4 7 This is for the “Senior Era” *Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals: Ted Nesser N/A 23 Blondy Wallace N/A 19 Henry McDonald N/A 18 Sol Butler N/A 17 Gull Falcon N/A 13 Next Saturday, we will be posting the results of the 1949 Class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project. Thank you to all who contributed, and if you want to be a part of this project, please let us know!