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Don Meredith
Posted:
Mon Apr 28, 2008 8:31 pmby ponyboy
From Wikipedia: "Meredith is the only quarterback to play amateur football for a Dallas area team (high school or college) and go on to start a game for the Dallas Cowboys."
Unbelievable.
Re: Don Meredith
Posted:
Mon Apr 28, 2008 8:35 pmby J.T.supporta
ponyboy wrote:From Wikipedia: "Meredith is the only quarterback to play amateur football for a Dallas area team (high school or college) and go on to start a game for the Dallas Cowboys."
Unbelievable.
my profs say that Wikipedia is an unrealiable source. but im not doubting that info.
Posted:
Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:36 pmby RGV Pony
starting deep snapper doesn't count?
sad that a Ft Worth area college player has started for the Cowboys.
Posted:
Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:04 amby mustangfan01
it looks like it reads that dandy don was the only QB from dallas (college or HS) to start for the cowboys.
Posted:
Tue Apr 29, 2008 7:42 amby ponyboy
Yes, that's what it says. Not really that surprising now that I think about it. I mean how many starters have the Cowboys had? Maybe 25 total? 20?
Posted:
Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:56 amby Greenwich Pony
Are you just counting the last six years?
Posted:
Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:54 amby redpony
IIRC- Don Meredith was from east Texas and played football there. I do not believe he played non-pro ball in the Dallas area.
GO PONIES!!!
Posted:
Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:55 amby mrydel
redpony wrote:IIRC- Don Meredith was from east Texas and played football there. I do not believe he played non-pro ball in the Dallas area.
GO PONIES!!!
I heard he played at SMU. (no pro/non-pro jokes please)
Posted:
Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:00 pmby redpony
Sorry- my internet crashed before I could clarify my statement. I guess you could say his SMU playing was perhaps 'semi-pro'. OK?
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Posted:
Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:28 pmby Cadillac
Greenwich Pony wrote:Are you just counting the last six years?
Zing!
Nice one.
-CoS
Posted:
Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:06 pmby mrydel
My Cowboy history shows that John Roach of SMU (and Highland Park) started 4 games for the Cowboys in 1964 as a backup for Meredith and was eventually replaced by Craig Morton.
Re: Don Meredith
Posted:
Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:10 pmby smitty329
ponyboy wrote:From Wikipedia: "Meredith is the only quarterback to play amateur football for a Dallas area team (high school or college) and go on to start a game for the Dallas Cowboys."
Unbelievable.
In 1964 John Roach started 4 games for the Dallas Cowboys according to pro football reference.com and went to SMU (class of 1956) after graduating from Highland Park (class of 1952).
Posted:
Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:21 pmby smitty329
Jerry Rhome started 3 games for the Cowboys in 1965/66 and was a graduate of Dallas Sunset High School (DISD) before going to Tulsa.
Posted:
Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:47 pmby ponyboy
Interesting. I'll let the writer of the Wiki article know.
Posted:
Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:34 pmby PK
redpony wrote:Sorry- my internet crashed before I could clarify my statement. I guess you could say his SMU playing was perhaps 'semi-pro'. OK?
GO PONIES!!!
He played at SMU well before we had those kind of issues.