The Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project: 1977 Semi-Final VOTE

03 May
2025
Not in Hall of Fame

1977 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, we acted like the PFHOF had its first class in January 1946.

 

We have completed the years up to 1976.

 

For “1977,” a Preliminary Vote with nearly 100 players whose playing career ended by 1970. 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.

 

33 Votes took place, with the top fifteen advancing.

 

This is for the “Modern Era”

 

Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals: 

 

Player

Year of Eligibility

Vote Total

Gale Sayers HB

1

31

Bart Starr QB

1

31

Forrest Gregg T-G-DT

1

29

Willie Wood DB

1

28

Ron Mix T-G

1

25

Tom Sestak DT

4

21

Del Shofner E-DB

5

20

Pat Harder FB

19

19

Billy Shaw G

3

19

Billy Howton E-FL

9

18

Eddie Meador DB

2

18

Jimmy Patton DB

6

17

Gino Cappelletti FL-SE-DB-WR-K

2

17

Johnny Robinson DB-FL-HB

1

17

Les Richter LB-C

10

16

Gene Lipscomb DT

10

15

Bobby Boyd DB

4

14

Pete Retzlaff E-HB-TE

6

14

Billy Wilson E-FL

12

13

Joe Fortunato LB

6

12

Dick Schafrath T-G-DE

1

12

Alan Ameche FB

12

11

Art Powell E

4

11

Charlie Conerly QB

11

10

Abe Woodson DB

6

6

Roger Brown DT

3

5

 

 

 

 

This is for the “Senior Era”

 

*Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals:

 

Player

Year of Eligibility

Vote Total

Al Nesser

20

15

Buckets Goldenberg

7

14

Woody Strode

3

14

Marshall Goldberg

3

13

Ward Cuff

5

12

None of the Above

 

4

 

 

This is for the “Coaches/Contributors Era”

 

*Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals:

 

 

Player

Year of Eligibility

Vote Total

OWNER: Lamar Hunt

2

30

COACH Buddy Parker

8

28

OWNER: Charles Bidwill

7

12

OWNER: Charles Bidwill

8

8

CONT: Arch Ward

8

6

 

We will post the Class of 1977 Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project next Saturday.

 

Thank you to all who contributed. If you want to be part of this project, please let us know!

Kirk Buchner, "The Committee Chairman", is the owner and operator of the site.  Kirk can be contacted at kirk.buchner@notinhalloffame.com . Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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