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1977 Dallas Cowboys
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Record: 12-2-0, Finished 1st in NFC East Division
NFL Season Summary
1977 Super Bowl Champions
Scored 345 points (24.6/g), 2nd of 28 in the NFL.
Allowed 212 points (15.1/g), 8th.
Differential of 133 points (9.5/g), 2nd.
Expected W-L: 10.6-3.4.
Takeaway/Giveaway Differential +7 (0.5/g), 6th.
Coached by Tom Landry (12-2-0)
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1977 Statistics / Starters & Roster / Games & Schedule / Team Draftees
Starters
Glossary · ProBowl(*), 1st-team All-Pro(+), · CSV · PRE · Hide Non-primary Starters| Pos | Age | Yrs | GS | Summary of Player Stats | Drafted (tm/rnd/yr) | |
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| Offensive Starters | Complete Team Stats | |||||
| QB | Roger Staubach* | 35 | 8 | 14 | 210 for 361, 2,620 yards, 18 td, 9 int, & 51 rushes for 171 yards and 3 td | Kansas City Chiefs / 16th / 122nd pick / 1964 |
| RB | Tony Dorsett | 23 | Rook | 4 | 208 rushes for 1,007 yards, 12 td, & 29 catches for 273 yards and 1 td | Dallas Cowboys / 1st / 2nd pick / 1977 |
| RB | Preston Pearson | 32 | 10 | 10 | 89 rushes for 341 yards, 1 td, & 46 catches for 535 yards and 4 td | Baltimore Colts / 12th / 298th pick / 1967 |
| FB | Robert Newhouse | 27 | 5 | 0 | 180 rushes for 721 yards, 3 td, & 16 catches for 106 yards and 1 td | Dallas Cowboys / 2nd / 35th pick / 1972 |
| WR | Drew Pearson*+ | 26 | 4 | 0 | 48 catches for 870 yards, 2 td, & 2 rushes for 22 yards and 0 td | |
| WR | Golden Richards | 27 | 4 | 0 | 17 catches for 225 yards, 3 td | Dallas Cowboys / 2nd / 46th pick / 1973 |
| TE | Billy Joe DuPree* | 27 | 4 | 14 | 28 catches for 347 yards, 3 td, & 3 rushes for 9 yards and 0 td | Dallas Cowboys / 1st / 20th pick / 1973 |
| LT | Ralph Neely | 34 | 12 | 0 | Houston Oilers / 2nd / 15th pick / 1965 |
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| LG | Herbert Scott | 24 | 2 | 10 | Dallas Cowboys / 13th / 330th pick / 1975 |
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| C | John Fitzgerald | 29 | 6 | 0 | 1 fumble recovered | Dallas Cowboys / 4th / 101st pick / 1970 |
| RG | Tom Rafferty | 23 | 1 | 14 | Dallas Cowboys / 4th / 119th pick / 1976 |
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| RT | Pat Donovan | 24 | 2 | 0 | Dallas Cowboys / 4th / 90th pick / 1975 |
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| Defensive Starters | ||||||
| LDE | Too Tall Jones | 26 | 3 | 14 | Dallas Cowboys / 1st / 1st pick / 1974 |
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| LDT | Jethro Pugh | 33 | 12 | 0 | Dallas Cowboys / 11th / 145th pick / 1965 |
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| RDT | Randy White* | 24 | 2 | 14 | 0 interceptions, 2 fumbles recovered | Dallas Cowboys / 1st / 2nd pick / 1975 |
| RDE | Harvey Martin*+ | 27 | 4 | 0 | 0 interceptions, 2 fumbles recovered | Dallas Cowboys / 3rd / 53rd pick / 1973 |
| LLB | Thomas Henderson | 24 | 2 | 14 | 3 interceptions, 2 fumbles recovered | Dallas Cowboys / 1st / 18th pick / 1975 |
| MLB | Bob Breunig | 24 | 2 | 14 | 1 interception, 1 fumble recovered | Dallas Cowboys / 3rd / 70th pick / 1975 |
| RLB | D.D. Lewis | 32 | 9 | 0 | 1 interception, 1 fumble recovered | Dallas Cowboys / 6th / 159th pick / 1968 |
| LCB | Benny Barnes | 26 | 5 | 14 | 0 interceptions, 1 fumble recovered | |
| RCB | Aaron Kyle | 23 | 1 | 10 | 1 interception, 0 fumbles recovered | Dallas Cowboys / 1st / 27th pick / 1976 |
| SS | Charlie Waters* | 29 | 7 | 0 | 3 interceptions, 1 fumble recovered | Dallas Cowboys / 3rd / 66th pick / 1970 |
| FS | Cliff Harris*+ | 29 | 7 | 0 | 5 interceptions, 0 fumbles recovered | |
| Special Teams Starters | ||||||
| K | Efren Herrera*+ | 26 | 3 | 0 | 18 of 29 field goals & 39 of 41 extra points | Detroit Lions / 7th / 169th pick / 1974 |
| P | Danny White | 25 | 1 | 0 | 80 punts for a 39.6 average, 1 blocked | Dallas Cowboys / 3rd / 53rd pick / 1974 |
| PR | Butch Johnson | 23 | 1 | 0 | 50 punt returns for a 8.5 average and 0 td | Dallas Cowboys / 3rd / 87th pick / 1976 |
| KR | Butch Johnson | 23 | 1 | 0 | 22 kick returns for a 24.4 average and 0 td | Dallas Cowboys / 3rd / 87th pick / 1976 |
| Age | Pos | G | GS | Wt | Ht | College/Univ | BirthDate | Yrs | Drafted (tm/rnd/yr) | |
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| Benny Barnes | 26 | DB | 14 | 14 | 190 | 6-1 | Stanford | 3/3/1951 | 5 | |
| Bob Breunig | 24 | LB | 14 | 14 | 226 | 6-7 | Arizona State | 7/4/1953 | 2 | Dallas Cowboys / 3rd / 70th pick / 1975 |
| Larry Brinson | 23 | RB | 14 | 0 | 214 | 6-2 | Florida | 6/6/1954 | Rook | |
| Guy Brown | 22 | LB | 14 | 1 | 223 | 6-4 | Houston | 6/1/1955 | Rook | Dallas Cowboys / 4th / 108th pick / 1977 |
| Larry Cole | 31 | DE-DT | 12 | 0 | 252 | 6-5 | Air Force,Hawaii,Houston | 11/15/1946 | 9 | Dallas Cowboys / 16th / 428th pick / 1968 |
| Jim Cooper | 22 | T-C-G | 14 | 0 | 262 | 6-5 | Temple | 9/28/1955 | Rook | Dallas Cowboys / 6th / 164th pick / 1977 |
| Doug Dennison | 26 | RB | 8 | 0 | 202 | 6-1 | Kutztown Pennsylvania | 12/18/1951 | 3 | |
| Pat Donovan | 24 | T | 14 | 0 | 253 | 6-5 | Stanford | 7/1/1953 | 2 | Dallas Cowboys / 4th / 90th pick / 1975 |
| Tony Dorsett | 23 | RB | 14 | 4 | 192 | 5-11 | Pittsburgh | 4/7/1954 | Rook | Dallas Cowboys / 1st / 2nd pick / 1977 |
| Billy Joe DuPree* | 27 | TE | 14 | 14 | 225 | 6-4 | Michigan State | 3/7/1950 | 4 | Dallas Cowboys / 1st / 20th pick / 1973 |
| John Fitzgerald | 29 | C-G | 12 | 0 | 255 | 6-5 | Boston College | 4/16/1948 | 6 | Dallas Cowboys / 4th / 101st pick / 1970 |
| Andy Frederick | 23 | T | 13 | 0 | 257 | 6-6 | New Mexico | 7/25/1954 | Rook | Dallas Cowboys / 5th / 137th pick / 1977 |
| Bill Gregory | 28 | DE-DT | 13 | 0 | 255 | 6-5 | Wisconsin | 12/14/1949 | 6 | Dallas Cowboys / 3rd / 77th pick / 1971 |
| Cliff Harris*+ | 29 | DB | 14 | 0 | 188 | 6-0 | Ouachita Baptist | 11/12/1948 | 7 | |
| Mike Hegman | 24 | LB | 14 | 1 | 227 | 6-1 | Alabama A&M,Tennessee State | 1/17/1953 | 1 | Dallas Cowboys / 7th / 173rd pick / 1975 |
| Thomas Henderson | 24 | LB | 14 | 14 | 221 | 6-2 | Langston | 3/1/1953 | 2 | Dallas Cowboys / 1st / 18th pick / 1975 |
| Efren Herrera*+ | 26 | K | 14 | 0 | 185 | 5-9 | UCLA | 7/30/1951 | 3 | Detroit Lions / 7th / 169th pick / 1974 |
| Tony Hill | 21 | WR | 14 | 0 | 199 | 6-2 | Stanford | 6/23/1956 | Rook | Dallas Cowboys / 3rd / 62nd pick / 1977 |
| Randy Hughes | 24 | DB | 13 | 0 | 209 | 6-4 | Oklahoma | 4/3/1953 | 2 | Dallas Cowboys / 4th / 96th pick / 1975 |
| Bruce Huther | 23 | LB | 14 | 0 | 221 | 6-1 | New Hampshire | 7/23/1954 | Rook | |
| Butch Johnson | 23 | WR | 14 | 0 | 187 | 6-1 | California-Riverside | 5/28/1954 | 1 | Dallas Cowboys / 3rd / 87th pick / 1976 |
| Too Tall Jones | 26 | DE | 14 | 14 | 271 | 6-9 | Tennessee State | 2/23/1951 | 3 | Dallas Cowboys / 1st / 1st pick / 1974 |
| Aaron Kyle | 23 | DB | 14 | 10 | 185 | 5-11 | Wyoming | 4/6/1954 | 1 | Dallas Cowboys / 1st / 27th pick / 1976 |
| Scott Laidlaw | 24 | RB | 14 | 0 | 206 | 6-0 | Stanford | 2/17/1953 | 2 | Dallas Cowboys / 14th / 356th pick / 1975 |
| Burton Lawless | 24 | G | 14 | 4 | 253 | 6-4 | Florida | 11/1/1953 | 2 | Dallas Cowboys / 2nd / 44th pick / 1975 |
| D.D. Lewis | 32 | LB | 14 | 0 | 225 | 6-1 | Mississippi State | 10/16/1945 | 9 | Dallas Cowboys / 6th / 159th pick / 1968 |
| Harvey Martin*+ | 27 | DE-DT | 14 | 0 | 260 | 6-5 | Texas A&M-Commerce | 11/16/1950 | 4 | Dallas Cowboys / 3rd / 53rd pick / 1973 |
| Ralph Neely | 34 | T-G | 14 | 0 | 265 | 6-6 | Oklahoma | 9/12/1943 | 12 | Houston Oilers / 2nd / 15th pick / 1965 |
| Robert Newhouse | 27 | RB | 14 | 0 | 209 | 5-10 | Houston | 1/9/1950 | 5 | Dallas Cowboys / 2nd / 35th pick / 1972 |
| Drew Pearson*+ | 26 | WR | 14 | 0 | 184 | 6-0 | Tulsa | 1/12/1951 | 4 | |
| Preston Pearson | 32 | RB | 14 | 10 | 205 | 6-1 | Illinois | 1/17/1945 | 10 | Baltimore Colts / 12th / 298th pick / 1967 |
| Jethro Pugh | 33 | DT-DE | 12 | 0 | 260 | 6-6 | Elizabeth City State | 7/3/1944 | 12 | Dallas Cowboys / 11th / 145th pick / 1965 |
| Tom Rafferty | 23 | C-G | 14 | 14 | 256 | 6-3 | Penn State | 8/2/1954 | 1 | Dallas Cowboys / 4th / 119th pick / 1976 |
| Mel Renfro | 36 | DB-RB | 11 | 0 | 190 | 6-0 | Oregon | 12/30/1941 | 13 | Dallas Cowboys / 2nd / 17th pick / 1964 |
| Golden Richards | 27 | WR | 14 | 0 | 181 | 6-1 | BYU,Hawaii | 12/31/1950 | 4 | Dallas Cowboys / 2nd / 46th pick / 1973 |
| Jay Saldi | 23 | TE-WR | 14 | 0 | 225 | 6-3 | South Carolina | 10/8/1954 | 1 | |
| Herbert Scott | 24 | G-T | 11 | 10 | 254 | 6-2 | Virginia Union | 1/18/1953 | 2 | Dallas Cowboys / 13th / 330th pick / 1975 |
| Dave Stalls | 22 | DE-DT-NT | 11 | 0 | 250 | 6-5 | Northern Colorado | 9/19/1955 | Rook | Dallas Cowboys / 7th / 191st pick / 1977 |
| Roger Staubach* | 35 | QB | 14 | 14 | 197 | 6-3 | Navy,New Mexico Military Inst. | 2/5/1942 | 8 | Kansas City Chiefs / 16th / 122nd pick / 1964 |
| Mark Washington | 30 | DB | 13 | 4 | 188 | 5-10 | Morgan State | 12/28/1947 | 7 | Dallas Cowboys / 13th / 335th pick / 1970 |
| Charlie Waters* | 29 | DB | 14 | 0 | 193 | 6-1 | Clemson | 9/10/1948 | 7 | Dallas Cowboys / 3rd / 66th pick / 1970 |
| Danny White | 25 | QB-P | 14 | 0 | 193 | 6-2 | Arizona State | 2/9/1952 | 1 | Dallas Cowboys / 3rd / 53rd pick / 1974 |
| Randy White* | 24 | DT-LB-DE | 14 | 14 | 257 | 6-4 | Maryland | 1/15/1953 | 2 | Dallas Cowboys / 1st / 2nd pick / 1975 |
| Rayfield Wright | 32 | T-TE | 2 | 0 | 255 | 6-6 | Fort Valley State | 8/23/1945 | 10 | Dallas Cowboys / 7th / 182nd pick / 1967 |
| Team Total | 26.4 | 14 | 222.8 | 6-2.6 | 3.9 |