The Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project: 1957 SEMI-FINAL VOTE

1957 SEMI-FINAL RESULTS:

Thank you for all of your participation in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project. If you are unaware of what that is, simply, we acted as if the PFHOF had its first class in January 1946.

We have completed the years up to 1956.

For “1957,” a Preliminary Vote with over 130 players whose playing career ended by 1951. 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, and the top 25 vote-getters were named Semi-Finalists.

A week later, 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.

30 Votes took place, with the top five advancing.

This is for the “Modern Era”

Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals:

Notably, there was a tie, meaning that 16 men advanced to the Finals, as opposed to 15.

This is for the “Senior Era”

*Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals:

We also had a run-off vote to break a tie on Senior Candidate Parameters, in which you voted 18-12 to keep it as is. This means that for the next three years until another vote, the top vote-getter MUST gain 50% of the vote.

Next Saturday, we will be posting the Class of the 1957 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!