Cliff Christl is adamant that Verne Lewellen should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
The Green Bay Packers’ official historian, and author of The Greatest Story in Sports and other books, points out that not only was Lewellen, who played halfback, a star on Curly Lambeau’s first three-peat Championship teams, based on subsequent research, he scored the most touchdowns of his era and amassed the second-most points.
In addition, he was one of the best punters of the time, in an age when punting was a far more important part of the game.