Committees
The PFRA's research is mostly divided into committees:
- All-America Football Conference
- (chair: Ken Crippen)
- All-Pro
- This committee researches AP and UPI awards and All-Pro teams. (chair: John Hogrogian and John Turney)
- Football, Culture and Social Movements Committee
- Discusses the involvement of football and social movements such as civil rights. (chair: Gretchen Atwood)
- Hall of Very Good Committee
- Highlights outstanding players not in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. (chair: Andy Piascik)
- Linescore Committee
- Responsible for compiling linescores for all professional games played since 1920. (chair: Gary Selby)
- Gamebooks
- Aims to collect game books from every NFL game ever played, however many still exist. (chair: Karl Schindl)
- Membership Committee
- For the PFRA's internal purposes.
- Pre-NFL Pro Football Committee
- Researches all professional football prior to 1920, such as the Ohio League and the New York Pro Football League. (chair: Roy Sye)
- Western, Central and Northern New York Committees
- Researches professional football in upstate New York. This committee includes several subcommittees, including Buffalo football teams of the 1920s (chair: Jeffrey Miller), Rochester Jeffersons (John Steffenhagen), Buffalo Indians (Darin Paine), AAFC Bills (Crippen), the Empire Football League (EFL commissioner Dave Burch), and Watertown Red & Black (Crippen). (chair: Jeffrey Miller)
- Stadiums
- Compiles all stadiums used by professional football teams. (chair: Bill Pepperell)
- Broadcasting
- Compiles all local and national television and radio announcers for every NFL and AFL game ever broadcast since 1939. (chair: Tim Brulia)
- Uniforms
- Compiles all information on NFL, AFL and AAFC uniforms from 1933 to the present. (chair: Tim Brulia)
- Canadian Football League
- (chair: Brian Marshall)
- United States Football League
- (chair: Paul Reeths)
- World Football League
- (chair: Richie Franklin)
- Other Leagues
- Any professional football leagues not covered by one of the other committees. (chair: Mark Ford)
- Oral History
- Chronicles PFRA interviews with former NFL players. (chair: Kenneth Crippen)
- NFL Officials
- Compiles a list of all NFL officials, their positions and their uniform numbers. (chair: Gary Najman-Vainer)
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