Three of the 15 players inducted in the team’s exclusive Ring of Honor are ... you guessed it, running backs.
Each week, staff writer Ray Buck takes a look at the history of the Cowboys - from a great game to a singular moment to a memorable player - in his online-exclusive offering, Old 'Boys Club.
- The Cowboys have a history of change-of-pace running backs
- Talking with Neill Armstrong, not the astronaut
Neill Armstrong assisted not only Tom Landry, but Jimmy Johnson and Barry Switzer. This really was one giant leap for coaching kind. Armstrong, now 82, lives with his wife of 62 years, Jane, on the golf course in Trophy Club.
- Old 'Boys Club: Tom Landry’s last game ball
Tom Landry’s 250th NFL regular-season victory also was his last.
- Old Boys Club: 'An artistic gusher'
How the Star-Telegram reported the first Dallas Cowboys game at Texas Stadium.
- A first for two players with the Dallas Cowboys.
Mike Gaechter and Amos Marsh, the triple-digit Cowboys.
- The Cowboys’ "first" recorded a glimmer of hope
The upstart Dallas Cowboys nearly upset the two-time defending NFL champion Baltimore Colts at the Cotton Bowl on Aug. 19, 1960. It was only a preseason game ... but Johnny Unitas was still on the field in the final 70 seconds to pull it out.
- Early training camps were memorable
Their first-year training camp conditions were so unpleasant, so shoddy, the players hanged Gil Brandt in effigy for putting them there.
- A steady voice of Cowboys, Sham was muffled one time
"Voice of the Cowboys" Brad Sham begins his 30th season with the team. It didn’t look as if Sham would get past 19 years when he abruptly was yanked off Jerry Jones’ studio show in ’94, then quit the Cowboys at season’s end to join the ’95 Rangers radio team.
- Cowboys' first big-play man is now the 'cosmic nanny'
Frank Clarke held the Cowboys' record for TD catches in a season until T.O. broke it. But at 74, he has his hands full caring for two small children.
- Danny Villanueva's greatest kicks, then and now
One field goal stands out in Danny Villanueva's memory -- a game-winner at Washington in 1966.
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