RESEARCH COMMITTEES
All-America Football Conference Committee
Goal: Research and collect materials related to the All-America Football Conference.
Chair: Ken Crippen
Goal: Write biographies of all major league professional players, coaches and administrators.
Chair: Greg Tranter
Members: Lee Elder, Matt Keddie and Jeffrey Miller
Goal: The PFRA Education Committee is dedicated to collecting (and developing) educational materials that use football as an example for instruction in math, history, geography and other subjects.
Chair: Neal Golden
Neal has already put together a list of ideas for Middle School math lessons based on football. If you are interested in joining the committee or have any questions about the committee, please contact Neal.
Goal: The goal of the PFRA Gamebooks Committee is to collect gamebooks and play-by-play accounts for all of the games in NFL history. These can be a valuable tool for researchers, but acquiring them can be an arduous task. The goal is to share the collective efforts of a number of researchers and pool the results in one location, hopefully to foster future research.
Chairs: Giovanni Malaty, Craig Rye, and Clay Acord
Goal: Solicit and sort through nominees, prepare all HOVG-related materials for Coffin Corner and prepare write-ups on the nominees.
Chair: Andy Piascik
Goal: Generate linscores for all NFL games played since 1920.
Chair: Gary Selby
Goal: To compile a list of all NFL officials, their positions and their uniform numbers.
Chair: Gary Najman-Vainer
Goal: Research and collect materials related to the pre-NFL era of professional football.
Chair: Roy Sye
World Football League Committee
Goal: Research and collect materials related to the World Football League.
Chair: Mark Speck