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The Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project: 1958 FINAL VOTE

1958 Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project Class. 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 1946? After soliciting and obtaining a passionate group of football fans and historians, we sent out a ballot for a Preliminary Vote, in 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 five Modern Era inductee and one Senior inductee. This is the result of the thirteenth official class; Below are the final results of this project based on 30 votes, Remember that the group took a vote, and we have reverted back to the top five candidates entering the Hall.  This will be put to a vote again in “1960”. This is for the “Modern Era” *Bold indicates they have been elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Class of 1958: Player Year of Eligibility Vote Total Sammy Baugh QB 1 30 Bulldog Turner C-T-LB-G 1 21 Bob Waterfield QB 1 18 Tony Canadeo TB-HB 4 11 Steve Owen T-G 20 12 Wayne Millner E 8 10 Mac Speedie E 1 9 Whizzer White TB-HB 12 7 Marshall Goldberg FB 5 5 Buckets Goldenberg 8 3 Ward Cuff WB-QB-HB 6 3 Bill Osmanski FB 6 3 Ken Kavanaugh E 3 3 George Christensen T-G 15 2 Ace Gutkowski FB-TB 14 2 Woody Strode E 4 1 This is for the “Senior Era”, *Bold indicates they have been elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Class of 1958, though no one made the mandatory 50% threshold to advance. Tony Latone 3 12 Hunk Anderson 8 10 Al Nesser 2 5 None of the Above N/A 3 About the 1958 Inductees: Sammy Baugh QB-TB, WAS 1937-52: Inducted in 1958 on his 1st Ballot.  Inducted into the actual Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963.   In 1937, The Boston Redskins relocated to Washington, and that year's First Round Pick was Sammy Baugh. Baugh was initially listed as a Tailback, but passing was not the norm. But he became one of the first accurate passers and…


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