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Record: 9-5-0, Finished 1st in NFL Capital Division
NFL Season Summary
Scored 342 points (24.4/g), 6th of 16 in the NFL.
Allowed 268 points (19.1/g), 6th.
Differential of 74 points (5.3/g), 4th.
Expected W-L: 9.0-5.0.
Takeaway/Giveaway Differential +6 (0.4/g), 4th.
Simple Rating System: Total 2.9, Offense: 0.1, Defense: 2.9, SoS: -2.4, versus averages of 0.0.
Coached by
Tom Landry
Training Camp: California Lutheran College (Thousand Oaks, California)
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| Tot Yds & TO | Passing | Rushing | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pts | Yds | Ply | Y/P | 1stD | Cmp | Att | Yds | TD | Int | 1stD | Att | Yds | TD | 1stD | TO | FL | 1stPy | |||
| Team Offense | 342 | 4699 | 936 | 5.0 | 261 | 210 | 417 | 2799 | 28 | 28 | 6.1 | 141 | 477 | 1900 | 13 | 4.0 | 109 | 42 | 14 | 11 |
| Team Defense | 268 | 3871 | 866 | 4.5 | 236 | 260 | 482 | 2790 | 21 | 29 | 5.3 | 145 | 339 | 1081 | 11 | 3.2 | 64 | 48 | 19 | 27 |
| Lg Rank Offense | 6 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 14 | 8 | ||||||
| Lg Rank Defense | 6 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Score | Offense | Defense | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week | Day | Date | OT | Rec | Opp | Tm | Opp | 1stD | TotYd | PassY | RushY | TO | 1stD | TotYd | PassY | RushY | TO | |||
| 1 | Sun | September 17 | boxscore | W | 1-0 | @ | Cleveland Browns | 21 | 14 | 19 | 370 | 189 | 181 | 4 | 12 | 221 | 210 | 11 | 3 | |
| 2 | Sun | September 24 | boxscore | W | 2-0 | New York Giants | 38 | 24 | 23 | 414 | 236 | 178 | 1 | 15 | 266 | 190 | 76 | 3 | ||
| 3 | Sun | October 1 | boxscore | L | 2-1 | Los Angeles Rams | 13 | 35 | 20 | 272 | 221 | 51 | 4 | 25 | 356 | 135 | 221 | 1 | ||
| 4 | Sun | October 8 | boxscore | W | 3-1 | @ | Washington Redskins | 17 | 14 | 18 | 320 | 205 | 115 | 2 | 14 | 253 | 237 | 16 | 3 | |
| 5 | Sun | October 15 | boxscore | W | 4-1 | New Orleans Saints | 14 | 10 | 18 | 234 | 109 | 125 | 3 | 12 | 207 | 165 | 42 | 3 | ||
| 6 | Sun | October 22 | boxscore | W | 5-1 | @ | Pittsburgh Steelers | 24 | 21 | 14 | 378 | 290 | 88 | 1 | 29 | 379 | 298 | 81 | 2 | |
| 7 | Sun | October 29 | boxscore | L | 5-2 | @ | Philadelphia Eagles | 14 | 21 | 13 | 306 | 192 | 114 | 5 | 23 | 341 | 165 | 176 | 6 | |
| 8 | Sun | November 5 | boxscore | W | 6-2 | Atlanta Falcons | 37 | 7 | 21 | 324 | 153 | 171 | 2 | 13 | 223 | 157 | 66 | 5 | ||
| 9 | Sun | November 12 | boxscore | W | 7-2 | @ | New Orleans Saints | 27 | 10 | 18 | 380 | 178 | 202 | 2 | 14 | 211 | 168 | 43 | 3 | |
| 10 | Sun | November 19 | boxscore | L | 7-3 | Washington Redskins | 20 | 27 | 27 | 446 | 342 | 104 | 5 | 16 | 314 | 265 | 49 | 2 | ||
| 11 | Thu | November 23 | boxscore | W | 8-3 | St. Louis Cardinals | 46 | 21 | 18 | 436 | 300 | 136 | 1 | 15 | 317 | 222 | 95 | 4 | ||
| 12 | Sun | December 3 | boxscore | L | 8-4 | @ | Baltimore Colts | 17 | 23 | 13 | 223 | 89 | 134 | 4 | 16 | 310 | 260 | 50 | 4 | |
| 13 | Sun | December 10 | boxscore | W | 9-4 | Philadelphia Eagles | 38 | 17 | 22 | 325 | 158 | 167 | 4 | 12 | 102 | 79 | 23 | 5 | ||
| 14 | Sat | December 16 | boxscore | L | 9-5 | @ | San Francisco 49ers | 16 | 24 | 17 | 271 | 137 | 134 | 4 | 20 | 371 | 239 | 132 | 4 | |
| Playoffs | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Division | Sun | December 24 | boxscore | W | 10-5 | Cleveland Browns | 52 | 14 | 22 | 401 | 223 | 178 | 2 | 15 | 322 | 163 | 159 | 1 | ||
| ConfChamp | Sun | December 31 | boxscore | L | 10-6 | @ | Green Bay Packers | 17 | 21 | 11 | 192 | 100 | 92 | 2 | 18 | 195 | 115 | 80 | 2 | |
| No. | Age | Pos | G | GS | QBrec | Cmp | Att | Yds | TD | Int | Lng | Sk | Yds | 4QC | GWD | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | Don Meredith* | 29 | QB | 11 | 11 | 7-4-0 | 128 | 255 | 50.2 | 1834 | 16 | 6.3 | 16 | 6.3 | 60 | 7.2 | 5.6 | 14.3 | 166.7 | 68.7 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| 14 | Craig Morton | 24 | qb | 9 | 3 | 2-1-0 | 69 | 137 | 50.4 | 978 | 10 | 7.3 | 10 | 7.3 | 64 | 7.1 | 5.3 | 14.2 | 108.7 | 67.7 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| 13 | Jerry Rhome | 25 | 14 | 0 | 9 | 18 | 50.0 | 86 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 5.6 | 19 | 4.8 | 2.3 | 9.6 | 6.1 | 40.5 | ||||||||||
| 30 | Dan Reeves | 23 | HB | 14 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 57.1 | 195 | 2 | 28.6 | 1 | 14.3 | 74 | 27.9 | 27.1 | 48.8 | 13.9 | 101.8 | |||||||||
| Team Total | 25.9 | 14 | 9-5-0 | 210 | 417 | 50.4 | 3093 | 28 | 6.7 | 28 | 6.7 | 74 | 7.4 | 5.7 | 14.7 | 220.9 | 69.4 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Opp Total | 14 | 260 | 482 | 53.9 | 3167 | 21 | 4.4 | 29 | 6.0 | 6.6 | 4.73 | 12.2 | 226.2 | 63.9 | 45 | 377 | 5.3 | 3.6 | 8.5 |
| Rushing | Receiving | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Age | Pos | G | GS | Att | Yds | TD | Lng | Rec | Yds | TD | Lng | YScm | RRTD | Fmb | |||||||
| 43 | Don Perkins* | 29 | FB | 14 | 0 | 201 | 823 | 6 | 30 | 4.1 | 58.8 | 14.4 | 18 | 116 | 6.4 | 0 | 15 | 1.3 | 8.3 | 939 | 6 | 1 |
| 30 | Dan Reeves | 23 | HB | 14 | 0 | 173 | 603 | 5 | 32 | 3.5 | 43.1 | 12.4 | 39 | 490 | 12.6 | 6 | 60 | 2.8 | 35.0 | 1093 | 11 | 7 |
| 17 | Don Meredith* | 29 | QB | 11 | 11 | 28 | 84 | 0 | 16 | 3.0 | 7.6 | 2.5 | 84 | 0 | 6 | |||||||
| 32 | Walt Garrison | 23 | KR | 13 | 0 | 24 | 146 | 0 | 26 | 6.1 | 11.2 | 1.8 | 2 | 17 | 8.5 | 0 | 14 | 0.2 | 1.3 | 163 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | Les Shy | 23 | 13 | 0 | 17 | 59 | 0 | 13 | 3.5 | 4.5 | 1.3 | 3 | 36 | 12.0 | 0 | 19 | 0.2 | 2.8 | 95 | 0 | 0 | |
| 14 | Craig Morton | 24 | qb | 9 | 3 | 15 | 42 | 0 | 11 | 2.8 | 4.7 | 1.7 | 42 | 0 | 5 | |||||||
| 84 | Pettis Norman | 28 | TE | 14 | 0 | 9 | 91 | 0 | 28 | 10.1 | 6.5 | 0.6 | 20 | 220 | 11.0 | 2 | 39 | 1.4 | 15.7 | 311 | 2 | 1 |
| 82 | Frank Clarke | 33 | 14 | 0 | 4 | 72 | 1 | 56 | 18.0 | 5.1 | 0.3 | 9 | 119 | 13.2 | 1 | 23 | 0.6 | 8.5 | 191 | 2 | 0 | |
| 46 | Craig Baynham | 23 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2.0 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 3 | 13 | 4.3 | 0 | 17 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 19 | 1 | 0 | |
| 13 | Jerry Rhome | 25 | 14 | 0 | 2 | -11 | 0 | -2 | -5.5 | -0.8 | 0.1 | -11 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| 11 | Danny Villanueva | 30 | K/P | 14 | 0 | 1 | -15 | 0 | -15 | -15.0 | -1.1 | 0.1 | -15 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| 19 | Lance Rentzel | 24 | FL | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 58 | 996 | 17.2 | 8 | 74 | 4.1 | 71.1 | 996 | 8 | 1 | |
| 22 | Bob Hayes* | 25 | PR/SE | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 49 | 998 | 20.4 | 10 | 64 | 3.8 | 76.8 | 998 | 10 | 1 | |
| 35 | Pete Gent | 25 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 9 | 88 | 9.8 | 1 | 16 | 1.3 | 12.6 | 88 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Team Total | 25.9 | 14 | 477 | 1900 | 13 | 56 | 4.0 | 135.7 | 34.1 | 210 | 3093 | 14.7 | 28 | 74 | 15.0 | 220.9 | 4993 | 41 | 26 | |||
| Opp Total | 14 | 339 | 1081 | 11 | 3.2 | 77.2 | 24.2 | 260 | 2790 | 10.7 | 21 | 18.6 | 199.3 | 3871 | 32 | 27 | ||||||
| Punt Returns | Kick Returns | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Age | Pos | G | GS | Ret | Yds | TD | Lng | Rt | Yds | TD | Lng | APYd | |||
| 22 | Bob Hayes* | 25 | PR/SE | 13 | 0 | 24 | 276 | 1 | 69 | 11.5 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 17 | 17.0 | 1291 |
| 32 | Walt Garrison | 23 | KR | 13 | 0 | 20 | 366 | 0 | 36 | 18.3 | 529 | |||||
| 46 | Craig Baynham | 23 | 14 | 0 | 12 | 331 | 0 | 37 | 27.6 | 350 | ||||||
| 20 | Mel Renfro* | 26 | RS | 9 | 8 | 3 | -1 | 0 | 7 | -0.3 | 5 | 112 | 0 | 30 | 22.4 | 111 |
| 19 | Lance Rentzel | 24 | FL | 14 | 0 | 6 | 45 | 0 | 21 | 7.5 | 1041 | |||||
| 25 | Les Shy | 23 | 13 | 0 | 5 | 96 | 0 | 35 | 19.2 | 191 | ||||||
| 31 | Sims Stokes | 23 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 92 | 0 | 35 | 23.0 | 92 | ||||||
| 79 | Ron East | 24 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | ||||||
| Team Total | 25.9 | 14 | 33 | 320 | 1 | 69 | 9.7 | 48 | 1014 | 0 | 37 | 21.1 | 6327 | |||
| Opp Total | 14 | 37 | 0 | 59 | 1350 | 0 | 22.9 | |||||||||
| 0-19 | 20-29 | 30-39 | 40-49 | 50+ | Tot | PAT | Punting | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Age | Pos | G | GS | FGA | FGM | FGA | FGM | FGA | FGM | FGA | FGM | FGA | FGM | FGA | FGM | XPA | XPM | Pnt | Yds | Lng | Blck | ||||
| 11 | Danny Villanueva | 30 | K/P | 14 | 0 | 19 | 8 | 42.1% | 34 | 32 | 94.1% | 67 | 2707 | 57 | 0 | 40.4 | ||||||||||
| 83 | Harold Deters | 23 | k | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 25.0% | 10 | 9 | 90.0% | |||||||||||||||
| Team Total | 25.9 | 14 | 23 | 9 | 39.1% | 44 | 41 | 93.2% | 67 | 2707 | 57 | 0 | 40.4 | |||||||||||||
| Opp Total | 14 | 23 | 8 | 34.8% | 35 | 34 | 97.1% | 72 | 3060 | 42.5 | ||||||||||||||||
| Def Interceptions | Fumbles | Tackles | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Age | Pos | G | GS | Sk | Int | Yds | TD | Lng | PD | FF | Fmb | FR | Yds | TD | Tkl | Ast | Sfty | |
| 17 | Don Meredith* | 29 | QB | 11 | 11 | 0 | 6 | 3 | -20 | 0 | |||||||||
| 30 | Dan Reeves | 23 | HB | 14 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 0 | |||||||||
| 20 | Mel Renfro* | 26 | RS | 9 | 8 | 7 | 38 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 28 | 0 | ||||
| 34 | Cornell Green*+ | 27 | LCB | 14 | 0 | 7 | 52 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 23 | Mike Johnson | 24 | RCB | 14 | 0 | 5 | 88 | 0 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 52 | Dave Edwards | 28 | RLB | 14 | 0 | 3 | 34 | 1 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 14 | Craig Morton | 24 | qb | 9 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 1 | -3 | 0 | |||||||||
| 75 | Jethro Pugh | 23 | LDT | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| 53 | Mike Connelly | 32 | C | 14 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 2 | -9 | 0 | |||||||||
| 27 | Mike Gaechter | 27 | LS | 14 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 55 | Lee Roy Jordan* | 26 | MLB | 14 | 0 | 3 | 85 | 1 | 40 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| 66 | George Andrie* | 27 | RDE | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 54 | Chuck Howley*+ | 31 | LLB | 14 | 0 | 1 | 28 | 1 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 84 | Pettis Norman | 28 | TE | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 13 | Jerry Rhome | 25 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 46 | Craig Baynham | 23 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 37 | Phil Clark | 22 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 45 | Dick Daniels | 23 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 79 | Ron East | 24 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 22 | Bob Hayes* | 25 | PR/SE | 13 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 56 | Harold Hays | 28 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 73 | Ralph Neely*+ | 24 | RT | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 43 | Don Perkins* | 29 | FB | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 19 | Lance Rentzel | 24 | FL | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 71 | Willie Townes | 24 | LDE | 14 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 0 | |||||||||
| Team Total | 25.9 | 14 | 29 | 331 | 3 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 31 | 31 | 0 | 2 | ||||||
| Opp Total | 14 | 42 | 27 | 8 | |||||||||||||||
| No. | Age | Pos | G | GS | RshTD | RecTD | PR TD | KR TD | FblTD | IntTD | OthTD | AllTD | 2PM | XPM | FGM | Sfty | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | Bob Hayes* | 25 | PR/SE | 13 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 11 | 66 | |||||||||
| 30 | Dan Reeves | 23 | HB | 14 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 66 | |||||||||
| 11 | Danny Villanueva | 30 | K/P | 14 | 0 | 32 | 8 | 56 | ||||||||||
| 19 | Lance Rentzel | 24 | FL | 14 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 48 | ||||||||||
| 43 | Don Perkins* | 29 | FB | 14 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 36 | ||||||||||
| 82 | Frank Clarke | 33 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 12 | ||||||||||
| 83 | Harold Deters | 23 | k | 3 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 12 | ||||||||||
| 84 | Pettis Norman | 28 | TE | 14 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 12 | ||||||||||
| 55 | Lee Roy Jordan* | 26 | MLB | 14 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | |||||||||
| 46 | Craig Baynham | 23 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||||||||||
| 52 | Dave Edwards | 28 | RLB | 14 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 35 | Pete Gent | 25 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||||||||||
| 54 | Chuck Howley*+ | 31 | LLB | 14 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 75 | Jethro Pugh | 23 | LDT | 14 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Team Total | 25.9 | 14 | 13 | 28 | 1 | 3 | 45 | 41 | 9 | 2 | 342 | |||||||
| Opp Total | 14 | 11 | 21 | 34 | 8 | 268 |