1947 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 year, where a Preliminary, Semi-Final and Final vote for the 1946 Class, which inducted Fritz Pollard, George Halas, Curly Lambeau, Jim Thorpe and Red Grange into the “Modern Era”. Pudge Heffelfinger, was chosen as part of the Seniors Category.

For “1947” a Preliminary Vote with 130 players whose playing career ended by 1940. 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 is 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 1947 Preliminary Ballot, we had the same amount for the Finals.

This is for the “Modern Era”

Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals:

Player	Year of Eligibility	Vote Total
Paddy Driscoll HB-QB-TB-BB (’46 Finalist)	13	28
Ernie Nevers FB (’46 Finalist)	11	28
George Trafton C (’46 Finalist)	11	28
Cal Hubbard T-E-DE-G (’46 Finalist)	6	27
Ed Healey T-G-E (’46 Finalist)	16	26
Duke Slater T (’46 Finalist)	11	26
Guy Chamberlin E-WB (’46 Finalist)	15	25
Pete Henry T (’46 Finalist)	14	24
Johnny Blood TB-HB-WB-BB-DB (’46 Finalist)	4	23
Dutch Clark TB (’46 Finalist)	4	22
Benny Friedman TB-DB (’46 Finalist)	8	21
Clark Hinkle FB-LB-HB-DB	1	20
Lavvie Dilweg E	8	18
Link Lyman T	8	18
Joe Guyon WB-TB-BB-FB	15	16
Cliff Battles TB-FB-WB-DB	5	13
Mike Michalske G-T-LB-BB	5	13
Verne Llewelyn B	10	12
Jimmy Conzelman HB-TB-BB-E	13	11
Ray Flaherty E-DB	7	11
Dutch Sternaman HB-QB-FB	17	9
Steve Owen T-G	9	7
Ox Emerson G-C	5	5
Walt Kiesling G-T (’46 SF)	4	5
Red Badgro E-DE	6	2

All 11 Finalists from 1946 advanced as Finalists for 1947. As there were no tie for the final spot, we have 15 Finalists. There are four first time Finalists.

This is for the “Senior Era”

*Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals:

John Brallier (’46 Finalist)	N/A	23
Charles Follis (’46 Finalist)	N/A	22
Blondy Wallace	N/A	16
Henry McDonald	N/A	14
Ted Nesser	N/A	12

Next Saturday, we will be posting the results and announce the 1947 Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Class of 1947.

Thank you to all who contributed, and if you want to be a part of this project, please let us know!