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All-America Football Conference Committee
Committee Goal: Research and collect materials relating to the All-America Football Conference. These materials will be organized and available for researchers.
Committee Chair: Andy Piascik
All-Pros and Awards Committee
All-Pros Committee Goal: Generate a complete listing of All-Pro teams from all sources.
Awards Committee: Generate a complete list of all AP and UPI awards and the voting for each of them.
Committee Chairs: John Hogrogian and John Turney
Central and Northern New York Committee
Committee Goal: Research and document all amateur, semi-professional and professional teams that played in the Central and Northern New York area. The committee would like to publish an encyclopedia when the research has been completed.
Committee Chair: Ken Crippen
Official Committee Website
Empire Football League Committee
Committee Goal: Research and document the history of the semi-professional Empire Football League.
Committee Chair: Dave Burch
Football, Culture and Social Movements Committee
Committee Goal: Research and publish articles and books exploring the relationship between football and broader social movements that it influences and is influenced by, such as civil rights, the labor movement, environmentalism, etc. To make the topics more manageable, we are grouping them by related movement and time period. The current focus is integration in the 1940s. Information regarding external influencers on a team's decision to integrate is especially appreciated, as is details of how that decision was made. If anyone is interested in exploring related topics, please contact the committee and we can coordinate research. A committee blog is also under development.
Committee Chair: Gretchen Atwood
Hall of Very Good Committee
Committee Goal: Solicit and sort through nominees, prepare all HOVG-related materials for Coffin Corner and prepare write-ups on the nominees.
Committee Chair: Andy Piascik
Linescore Committee
Committee Goal: Generate linscores for all games played since 1920.
Committee Chair: Gary Selby
Official Committee Website
Membership Committee
Committee Goal: Find ways to make it easier for PFRA members to contact each other and to know who is working on what research.
Committee Chair: John Fenton
Pre-NFL Pro Football Committee
Committee Goal: Research all semi-professional and professional games played prior to 1920. This would include line scores, game summaries and rosters.
Committee Chair: Roy Sye
Official Committee Website
Stadiums Committee
Committee Goal: Document and publish information on all stadiums used by professional football teams. The Stadium Committee has started and is concentrating on the stadiums in use since 1946. This would include all AAFC, NFL and AFL teams. For each stadium, the committee would like to gather the following: (A) An aerial view; (B) An exterior view (a view taken of the stadium at street level); (C) An interior view (a view taken from the stands); (D) An action view (a view of a game being played in the stadium, which shows both players and some portion of the stadium from the field level). Along with this information, factual data on each stadium will be compiled. This data would include construction dates, dates of use, anecdotal history, etc. The committee would also like to work on stadiums from other eras (pre-1946), but they will start with post-1946 stadiums. The goal of the committee is to compile a book to be published.
Committee Chair: Bill Pepperell
Team TV and Radio Commentators Committee
Committee Goal: Document the play-by-play announcers, analysts and field reporters for every single broadcast of NFL and AFL games (regular season and post season) from 1939 to the present.
Committee Chair: Tim Brulia
Uniforms of Past Teams Committee
Committee Goal: Document every uniform design and color (helmets, jerseys, pants and socks) for each NFL, AFL and AAFC team from 1933 to the present.
Committee Chair: Tim Brulia
Western New York Committee
Committee Goal: Research and document all amateur, semi-professional and professional teams that played in the Western New York area. The committee would like to publish an encyclopedia when the research has been completed.
Committee Chair: Ken Crippen
Official Committee Website
Official Rochester Jeffersons Website
If you are interested in participating in a committee or have information to provide to the committee chair, e-mail Ken Crippen.
Other notable work by PFRA members:
Buffalo
All-Americans/Bisons Historical Society
Football Project
Ghosts of
the Gridiron
Hickock Sports
Official Site of the Dayton
Triangles
Pro Football Archives
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