Mac Engel must not remember that Tom Landry was a gentleman, a Christian, a man of character and well respected by his team, fans and the public. (July 22, 1B, “Pearson’s exoneration of Jones ...
The last time that Texas had 10+ players selected in back to back NFL drafts, the United States was fresh off World War II. Some of the notable players were Tom Landry (1947) and Bobby Layne (1948).
Landry, a former Texas Longhorns football player, cut his teeth as a defensive coordinator for the New York Giants before being named the head coach of the expansion Cowboys in 1960. After some ...
Tom returned to Texas with a confidence in himself he'd never known before. Thinking of Robert, I could feel his loss lurking under the labyrinthine defensive schemes Landry, as coach, later devised.
was a part of one of Tom Landry's worst losses during his 29-year-reign as the Cowboys' head coach. As head coach of the Bears in 1985, Ditka's crew dismantled Landry's Cowboys in Dallas ...
It's not up there with having the audacity to fire legendary coach Tom Landry on a golf course in Austin, but Jerry Jones' fumbling of Mike McCarthy's exit from the Dallas Cowboys is, at best ...
Stoic on the sideline, Tom Landry posted 20 consecutive winning seasons ... Beyond the trappings of success, Landry was an innovator. Born in Mission, Texas, he joined the Air Corps as a freshman ...
So too Tom Landry. And, for that matter ... He paid $140 million for the team and Texas Stadium. Last year Forbes estimated the value of the Cowboys at $10 billion. Pretty decent ROI for a ...