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Professional Football Researchers Association
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<p>The Professional Football Researchers Association (PFRA) is an organization of researchers whose mission is to preserve and, in some cases, reconstruct professional <a href="/facts/American_football/TGzJa1nW">American football</a> history. It was founded on June 22, 1979 in Canton, Ohio by writer/historian <a href="/facts/Bob_Carroll_(author)/Ut8oFdep">Bob Carroll</a> and six other football researchers and is currently headed by an executive committee led by its president, George Bozeka, and executive director Leon Elder. Membership in the organization includes some of professional football's foremost historians and authors. The organization is based in <a href="/facts/Guilford%2c_New_York/N27dqPIM">Guilford, New York</a>. </p><p>The PFRA publishes books and a bimonthly magazine, <i>The Coffin Corner</i>, devoted to topics in professional football history. The organization also gives out awards each year for outstanding achievement in the field of football research. </p>