As sculptor Jennifer Frudakis tries to craft a bronze likeness of Emlen Tunnell, it's the eyes that haunt and challenge her.
"His eyes," Frudakis said Friday, "they look right through you."
The Delaware County Sports Foundation commissioned her to create a statue of the Radnor Township native, who in 1967 became the first African American in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
"You can see in his eyes that this was a courageous man, a confident man," Frudakis said. "There's nothing pained about them, nothing strained."
There was pain and strain, of course, in Tunnell's short but memorable life.