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COWBOYS NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE DALLAS COWBOYS FOOTBALL Cim— y \V 1 19 6 5 MEDIA GUIDE / DALLAS COWBOYS NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE DALLAS COWBOYS FOOTBALL Cim— Club Offices 5738 North Central Expressway Dallas, Texas 75206 TAylor 6-6100 — Area Code 214 Home Field — Cotton Bowl (Capacity 75,504) Colors — Royal Blue, Metallic Blue and White INDEX COWBOYS Rosters All Pro Selections 21 1965 22-23 All Roolcle Selections 21 All Time 42 Attendance 60-61 By College 43 Club Directory I Schedule, 1965 2 Coaches 3 Statistics College All-Star Selections 21 1964 Team 48 Equipment Manager 5 1964 Individual 49 Ticket Information 63 Fan Club 63 Trainers 5 Halftlme Activities 72 1965 OPPONENTS New Players 2 I Cleveland Browns 32-33 Player Biographies 6-20 Green Bay Packers 34-35 Player Scout 5 New York Giants 24-25 Pre-Game Show 72 Philadelphia Eagles 30-31 Press, Radio, TV Coverage 64 Pittsburgh Steelers 36-37 Pro Bowl Selections 2 I St. Louis Cardinals 28-29 Pronunciation Guide 20 San Francisco 49ers 38-39 Records Washington Redskins 26-27 Team, Season 50-51 N.F.L. Team, Game 52-53 All-Star Game Results 65 Individual Season 54-55 Championship Game Results 65 Individual Game 56-57 Playoff Bowl Results 65 Miscellaneous 57 Pro Bowl Results 65 Long Plays 58-59 Standings, 1964..Inside Back Cover Top Plays 59 Statistical Leaders Results 1964 66-67 All Time 62-63 All-Tlme 68-71 1964 43-48 Western Conference 40-41 Road Trips, 1965 2 Schedule, 1965 Back Cover Bedford S. Wynne Texas E. Schramm CImt W. Murchison, Jr. DALLAS COWBOYS CLUB DIRECTORY Clint W. Murchison, Jr. President Texas E. Schramm Vice-President & General Manager Bedford S. Wynne Secretary-Treasurer Jl-MMIE Parker Administrative Assistant Larry Karl Public Relations Director Bill Morgan Public Relations Assistant Tom Hardin. Business Manager Kay Lang - Ticket Manager Gil Brandt Player Scouting Director Dick Mansperger Player Scouting Tom Landry Head Coach Ermal Allen Offensive Backfield Coach Howard (Red) Hickey Offensive End Coach Jim Myers Offensive Line Coach Dick Nolan Defensive Backfield Coach Don Cochren Trainer Larry Gardner Trainer Jack Eskridge Equipment Manager BOARD OF DIRECTORS Sen. Clinton P. Anderson Clint W. Murchison, Jr. Amon Carter, Jr. Texas E. Schramm Leo F. Corrigan, Jr. Field Scovell Sen. J. Howard Edmondson Max Thomas W. R. Hawn Robert F. Thompson James J. Ling Bedford S. Wynne Paul Middleton T. L. Wynne, Jr. Cowboys Headquarters on And Publicity Director's itinerary St. Louis Game—Arrive Sunday, Oct. 3, stay at Bel Air Motor Hotel. Publicity director arrives Tuesday, Sept. 28 Cleveland Game—Arrive Saturday, Oct. 16, stay at Sheraton-Cleveland. Publicity director arrives Tuesday, Oct. 12. Green Bay Game—Arrive Saturday, Oct. 23, stay at Hilton Inn. Publicity director arrives Tuesday, Oct. 19. Pittsburgh Game—^Arrive Saturday, Oct. 30, stay at Pittsburgh-Hilton. Publicity director arrives Monday, Oct. 25. Washington Game—^Arrive Friday, Nov. 26, stay at Dupont Plaza. Publicity director arrives Tuesday, Nov. 23. Philadelphia Game—^Arrive Friday, Dec. 3, stay at Warwick Hotel. Publicity director arrives Tuesday, Nov. 30. New York Game—^Arrive Friday, Dec. 17, stay at Park Sheraton. Publicity director arrives Tuesday, Dec. 14. On weeks when the Cowboys fly to their destination on Saturday, they will work out in Dallas before departing. When they fly on Friday, they will work out on their opponents' field on Saturday. The publicity director can be reached at the team hotel starting the dates named above. In past seasons the Cowboys have been forced to change travel dates on one or more weeks due to bad flying weather, but generally the above schedule should be accurate. Check with the team hotel on the morning of the listed arrival date to determine any change in plans. Dallas Cowboys T965 Schedule (Local Starting Times) SUNDAY. SEPT. 19—New York Giants at Dallas. 1:35 p.m. SUNDAY. SEPT. 26—Washington Redskins at Dallas. 1:35 p.m. Monday, Oct. 4—St. Louis Cardinals at St. Louis, 8:05 p.m. SUNDAY. OCT. 10—Philadelphia Eagles at Dallas. 1:35 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 17—Cleveland Browns at Cleveland, 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 24—Green Bay Packers at Milwaukee, I p.m. Sunday, Oct. 31—Pittsburgh Steelers at Pittsburgh, I p.m. SUNDAY. NOV. 7—San Francisco 49ers at Dallas. 1:35 p.m. SUNDAY. NOV. 14—Pittsburgh Steelers at Dallas, 1:35 p.m. SUNDAY. NOV. 21—Clevelond Browns at Dallas. 3:05 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 28—Washington Redskins at Washington, 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 5—Philadelphia Eagles at Philadelphia, I p.m. SATURDAY. DEC. 11—St. Louis Cardinals at Dallas. 2:15 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 19—New York Giants at New York, 1:30 p.m. Dick Nolan • Jim Myers • Tom Landry • Red HIckey • Ermal Allen TOM LANDRY —Head Coach Tom Landry enters his seventeenth professional football season this year and the way his contract reads, he'll still be with the Cow boys when he enters his 26th season. A native Texan, he was a natural choice to coach Dallas' entry in the National Football League when the club franchise was granted in 1960. On Feb. 5, 1964, Cowboys owner Clint Murchison announced he had signed Landry to a contract running through the 1974 season. It was the longest contract in the history of pro sports, as well as newsmen could determine. "It's in line with my philosophy that when you get a good man you want to hold onto him," Murchison explained. Landry played college football at the University of Texas, with time out for World War II bomber service, and joined the New York Yankees of the old All-America Conference in 1949. When the two leagues merged in 1950, Landry went to the New York Giants where he was to spend the next ten years as a player, player-coach and defensive backfield coach. A native of Mission, Texas, Landry has made his home in Dallas for the past nine years with his wife Alicia and three children — Tom Jr., 15; Kitty, 12; and Lisa, 7. ERMAL ALLEN — Offensive Backfield Coach Ermal Allen joined the Cowboys in 1962 after 14 years as a coach at his alma mater, Kentucky, and in his first Dallas season the Cowboys ranked second in the NFL in total offense, touchdowns and points scored. He quarterbacked the Wildcats in his undergraduate days ('39- '41) and was a member of the Fort Benning and Army All-Star teams during World War II and a defensive back with the Cleveland Browns in 1947. Returning to Kentucky, he worked under Bear Bryant from 1948 through 1953 and under Blanton Collier from 1954 through 1961. Allen, 44, earned three letters each in football, basketball and golf in college and is a top amateur golfer. His son. Ken, is a half back at Georgia Tech. The other Allen children are Ann, 19, and Amy, 10. HOWARD (RED) HICKEY — Offensive End Coach Red Hickey, now in his second year with the Cowboys, has been around the NFL since 1940. , ^ ^ . A native of Clarksville, Ark., Red gi-aduated from the University of Arkansas in 1941 and was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers. He was traded to the Cleveland Rams before the 1941 season and played with them five seasons ('41 and '45-'48) in Cleveland and Los An geles. He remained with the Rams for six more seasons as an assistant coach, then joined the San Francisco 49ers in 1955 as an assistant coach, taking the head job in 1959 and remaining as 49er head coach through part of the '63 season. Red's family—^wife Celia and three sons—moved to Dallas in the summer of 1964. JIM MYERS — Offensive Line Coach A long-time coach in the collegiate ranks, Myers joined the Cow boys in 1962 after four years as head coach and athletic director at Texas A&M. He was an assistant coach at Wofford College, Vanderbilt and UCLA and head coach at Iowa State before going to Texas A&M. The 42-year-old Myers played his college ball at Tennessee ('41- '42 and '46) and Duke ('43). While at Duke in the Marine V-12 pro gram, he was named All-Southern Conference guard. Jim and his wife have three daughters — Susan, 18; Kathy, 15; and Carol, 14. DICK NOLAN — Defensive Backfield Coach Nolan joined the Cowboys as a player-coach in 1962, retiring as a player the following season to limit himself to coaching. The 33-year-old Maryland product was reunited with Landry last year. They were teammates in 1954 and '55 when Landry was a player-coach for the New York Giants. Nolan was also Landry's pupil in 1956, '57 and '59 when the latter was full-time defensive coach. Nolan was with the Chicago Cardinals in 1958, returning to the Giants for the three following seasons. A native of White Plains, N.Y., Dick is the father of five chil dren—^Richard Jr., 10; Nancy, 9; Michael, 6; Kelly, 5; and Lisabeth, 3. DON COCHREN — Trainer Don Cochren joined the Cowboys in June 1965 after one year as head trainer at the University of New Hampshire. A graduate of Purdue University who gained his physical ther apy certificate from Pennsylvania, the 33-year-old Cochren spent two years as trainer at Case Institute in Cleveland and four years as trainer of the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian football league. Married and the father of three children, he also spent two years as a physical therapy officer in the Air Force. LARRY GARDNER —Trainer Almost a native Texan, Larry Gardner was born and reared in Louisiana and graduated from McNeese State in 1961.
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