The Pro Football Hall of Fame yesterday announced a group of sixty senior players and coach/contributors who have advanced for consideration for induction at Canton. Two of them have connections to the Steelers: Art Rooney Jr. and former head coach Buddy Parker.
Rooney scouted for the Steelers from 1964 to 1986 and remains on the Steelers’ board of directors today. Parker, who died in 1982, coached the Steelers from 1957 to 1964 after stints coaching the Chicago Cardinals and Detroit Lions. He pioneered the concept of the two-minute offense.
The Hall of Fame’s Seniors Committee named 31 semifinalists, all of whom played their last NFL game no later than 1998. Twenty-nine coach/contributor semifinalists were selected. The committees will each name twelve finalists in each category, revealing those names on July 27th. One senior player and as many as three coach/contributors can be enshrined each year.
SENIOR PLAYER SEMIFINALISTS:
- Ken Anderson
- Ottis Anderson
- Carl Banks
- Maxie Baughan
- Larry Brown
- Mark Clayton
- Charlie Conerly
- Roger Craig
- Henry Ellard
- Randy Gradishar
- Lester Hayes
- Chris Hinton
- Cecil Isbell
- Joe Jacoby
- Billy “White Shoes” Johnson
- Mike Kenn
- Bob Kuechenberg
- George Kunz
- Albert Lewis
- Jim Marshall
- Clay Matthews Jr.
- Steve McMichael
- Eddie Meador
- Stanley Morgan
- Tommy Nobis
- Art Powell
- Sterling Sharpe
- Steve Tasker
- Otis Taylor
- Everson Walls
- Al Wistert
COACH/CONTRIBUTOR SEMIFINALISTS:
- K.S. “Bud”Adams Jr.
- Roone Arledge
- C.O. Brocato
- Tom Coughlin
- Alex Gibbs
- Ralph Hay
- Mike Holmgren
- Frank “Bucko” Kilroy
- Eddie Kotal
- Robert Kraft
- Elmer Layden
- Jerry Markbreit
- Virginia McCaskey
- Rich McKay
- John McVay
- Art Modell
- BuddyParker
- Carl Peterson
- Dan Reeves
- Art Rooney Jr.
- Marty Schottenheimer
- Jerry Seeman
- George Seifert
- Mike Shanahan
- Clark Shaughnessy
- Seymour Siwoff
- Jim Tunney
- Lloyd Wells
- John Wooten
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