The third time proved to be the charm for the late Dick Stanfel, an All-Pro guard on the Detroit Lions’ championship teams of the 1950s, to make the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Stanfel was voted in as a senior candidate Saturday and will be enshrined in Canton posthumously on Aug. 6 as a member of the Hall of Fame Class of 2016.
It was the third time Stanfel was on the final ballot as a senior candidate. He failed to get the required number of votes in 1993 and 2012.
The late Ken Stabler, best known as quarterback of the Oakland Raiders, also was voted in as a senior candidate.