Coffin Corner Volume 38 Number 2

[Ken Crippen]

The latest issue of "The Coffin Corner" is now available for immediate download from the Members Only section of the PFRA website.

Included in the issue are:
2015 Buffalo Bills Alumni Celebration Photo Essay by Mark Palczewski. The official photographer for the PFRA captures in words and pictures the alumni event last fall that featured a reunion of 1964–65 Buffalo Bills teammates, winners of back-to-back AFL titles.

PFRA-ternizing. An announcement on the second book in the PFRA’s Greatest Teams in Pro Football History series featuring the 1958 NFL champion Baltimore Colts and a call for writers and editors to help on the project. There is also an update on the 2016 Green Bay meeting itinerary including a list of speakers that features two members of the 1966 Packers team that won the first Super Bowl.

Passion for the Game: Women’s Football in the Twenty-First Century by Neal Rozendaal. This brief history of women’s professional football since 1999 looks at the explosion of leagues that took place in the early part of this century, the gradual winnowing process that has occurred since then and the rise and dominance of three leagues—the WFA, the IWFL and the WSFL—today.

The Remarkable Hayseed Stephens by William J. Ryczek. A short biography of Harold “Hayseed” Stephens, who played football for Sammy Baugh in college at Hardin–Simmons and went on to play briefly in the AFL for the New York Titans. His post-playing career included work as a boom-or-bust oil driller, an enthusiastic evangelist and, finally, as a questionable investor.

2015 Player Deaths. A list of the pro football players who died last year, including information on the team(s) they played for, the date and location of their death (if known) and their age when they passed away.

Remembering Chuck Bednarik: Better Than the Best by Jared Kraus. A look back at the Philadelphia Eagles triumph in the 1960 NFL Championship Game and the heroic role played by the aging Hall of Famer Chuck Bednarik, the last of the league’s “Sixty-Minute Men.”