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...Dallas Cowboys' Roger Staubach turns out to be as fast with a theological hot potato as he is with a football. At a post-Super Bowl press conference Roger was expatiating on his Christian principles when a reporter asked him if he thought there were zone defenses "up there." Staubach: "From what I understand, every pass is a touchdown up there." Reporter: "If you're a defensive back, every pass wouldn't be a touchdown." Staubach: "They don't have any defensive backs up there...
Very often, the threat of a Staubach run is as damaging to defenses as the run itself. When he scrambles into his broken figure-eight patterns, swooping toward the line of scrimmage and then veering back again, defenses are gripped by a will-he-or-won't-he perplexity. Says Jet Cornerback Earlie Thomas: "In the time he's running around, your man can run two or three pass patterns, and if he runs two or three, he might beat you on one." After seeing him chased for many a zigzagging yard last week, 49er Assistant Coach Paul...
Stunning Upset. More than one coach has voiced a similar lament when going against the likes of Roger Thomas Staubach and Robert Allen Griese. Everything about the two sons of Aquarius has remained remarkably similar, all the way to the Super Bowl. Both were outstanding high school athletes, Staubach in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Griese in Evansville, Ind. Spurned by Notre Dame, Staubach went to the U.S. Naval Academy, Griese to Purdue. In 1962, in his first game against Army, Sophomore Staubach passed and ran circles around the heavily favored cadets to lead Navy to a stunning upset. The next year...
...Staubach took off his Navy uniform and joined the Dallas Cowboys to serve on their taxi squad behind Quarterbacks Craig Morton and Don Meredith. Then, in quick succession, Don Meredith announced his surprise retirement and Craig Morton was injured-leaving Staubach to start the opening game of the season against the St. Louis Cardinals. In the first quarter Staubach fired a 75-yd. touchdown pass, and the Cowboys were never headed as they won 24-3. Off and on over the next two seasons, Coach Landry, a Methodist minister known to his players as the "Rev. T.L.," alternated Staubach...
Cowboys lost three of their first seven games this season, Landry announced that for "the sake of continuity" he would use only one quarterback: Staubach. Roger led the Cowboys to nine consecutive victories and straight into the Super Bowl...