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The Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project: 1978 Preliminary VOTE

The Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project: 1978 Preliminary VOTE
24 May
2025
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1978 SEMI-FINAL RESULTS:

Thank you for 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 1977.

For “1978,” a Preliminary Vote with nearly 100 players whose playing career ended by 1972. 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 on a weekly basis until we catch up to the current year.

32 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

Lance Alworth FL-WR

1

28

Mike Ditka TE

1

25

John Mackey TE

1

25

Eddie Meador DB

3

24

Herb Adderly DB

1

24

Larry Wilson S

1

24

Del Shofner E-DB

6

22

Tom Sestak DT

5

22

Ray Nitschke LB

1

22

Pat Harder FB

20

20

Alan Ameche FB

13

19

Jimmy Patton DB

7

19

Billy Shaw G

4

19

Billy Howton E-FL

10

18

Joe Fortunato LB

7

16

Billy Wilson E-FL

13

15

Gene Lipscomb DT

11

15

Pete Retzlaff E-HB-TE

7

15

Gino Cappelletti FL-SE-DB-WR-K

3

15

Johnny Robinson DB-FL-HB

2

14

Dick LeBeau DB

1

14

Abe Woodson DB

7

9

Les Richter LB-C

11

8

Bucko Kilroy G-MG-T-DT

18

7

Tank Younger FL-LB-HB

15

7

Art Powell E

5

6

 

This is for the “Senior Era”

*Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals:

 

Player

Year of Eligibility

Vote Total

Whizzer White

12

17

Buckets Goldenberg

8

15

Woody Strode

4

15

Marshall Goldberg

4

14

Ward Cuff

6

11

None of the Above

 

2

 

This is for the “Coaches/Contributors Era”

*Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals:

 

Player

Year of Eligibility

Vote Total

COACH Buddy Parker

9

30

COACH Weeb Ewbank

2

24

OWNER: Charles Bidwill

9

14

COACH: Greasy Neale

9

11

OWNER: Dan Reeves

9

5

 

We will post the Class of 1978 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!

Committee Chairman

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

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