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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. —
ver the past 20 years tfie Dallas
Cowboys have produced an almost
lawless record when it comes to
naking the proper turn at critical
toss roads.
This is the year when another
urn is required and Tex Schramm,
perhaps inore than any other, is cur-
|||ienlly sweating out the team’s ulli-
nate direction.
“We’ve been in this position be-
ore,” said the Cowboys’ president
nd general manager. “It always
makes the adrenalin flow a little
1101 e.
But are there times when
Schramm wonders whether the
.cam's long string of successes might
finally be coming to an end?
“You’d better believe it," he said.
The current crisis point began last
[December when the Cowboys were
run down by the Washington
Redskins in their showdown for the
NFC east title.
Disappointed in that big game,
the Cowboys promptly folded. They
were first crushed in the regular sea-
on finale by San Francisco and were
then ousted from the playoffs by the
Los Angeles Rams.
It marked the first time in the
leam’s history it had lost the last
three games of a season.
Then came a rash of retirements
— offensive tackle Pat Donovan, de
fensive end Harvey Marlin, tight
end Billy Joe DuPree, fullback Rob
ert Newhouse and wide receiver
Drew Pearson. With the trade of re
ceiver Butch Johnson to Houston,
the Cowboys have lost 62 years of
pro football experience.
In addition the Cowboys changed
hands. Clint Murchison, in failing
health and wanting to settle his es
tate, sold the club for $80 million to
an assortment of businessmen
headed by Texas A&M board of re
gents chairman H.R. “Bum” Bright.
Finally there is the matter of
Danny White vs. Gary Hogeboom,
an old fashioned quarterback con-
flict which will be dealt with during
training camp and the exhibiton
games.
A Dallas newspaper polled the
club’s players during the offseason
and a majority of them, under the
cloak of anonymity, said they
thought Hogeboom should be the
Cowboys’ quarterback.
With all of that as a background,
the Cowboys reconvened on the
campus of California Lutheran Col
lege in hopes of once again fighting
off the inevitable.
It is their 25th anniversary season
and for the last 19 of those years
they have had a winning record.
And in 18 of those 19 years Dallas
has been in the playoffs.
But is it all coming to an end?
“It is certainly a very important
year for us,” said Schramm. “But
you would like to come through this
year because it is in situations like
this that everybody questions you.
We would like to answer those ques
tions in a positive manner.”
The man chiefly responsible for
keeping the Cowboys a winner has
approached this year’s training
camp in a relaxed manner, at least
relatively speaking. Coach Tom
Landry, it seems, thrives under ad
versity.
“I sense the same determination
in Tom he had in 1980,” said
Schramm. “That was the year Roger
(Staubach) retired and a lot of peo
ple were saying we would drop
down. He rises to the challenge like a
lot of people do. He enjoys it.
“It seems in the most stressful
times he displays a certain looseness.
I think I see some of those signs
now.
“As long as he sees it as a chal
lenge he will want to continue to
coach and this year will be a chal
lenge.”
It has been a trying year for
Schramm. He supervised the sale of
the club, insuring the survival of the
unique structure of the Cowboys —
in which the owner spends the
money and stays out of the way.
TANK MCNAMARA 1
by Jeff Miliar & Bill Hinds
Monitoring Olympic athletes
Doctor fights drug use
United Press International
LOS ANGELES — In as many
languages as will be represented at
the Olympic Games, the message is
coining across simply and clearly.
“We’d like every athlete to receive
our message,” said Dr. Anthony
Daly, medical director of Olympic
Health Services. “Don’t come and try
to test our system.”
Daly is a man with a missionary’s
zeal, and his long-range objective is
to leave a legacy for future athletes.
Of immediate concern is to ensure
that no one beats what he considers
to be a fool-proof doping system
once the Games begin on Sunday.
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what the athletes want to know, is
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against is not trying to gain an unfair
advantage.”
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Games — and during the two weeks
of competition more than 1,500 ath
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of the contestants, will be tested for
drugs. The lop four finishers in each
individual event, plus others selected
at random, will be asked for urine
specimens, with the tests completed
within 24 hours.
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Carl Lewis, a candidate for four
medals, conceivably could be tested
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“This year has taken a certain
toll,” he said. “When you have been
doing business with someone for 24
years and have to change and go
through all of this, well, it’s not
easy.”
It is times like these that brings
out the historian in Schramm. He
likes to recount history, naturally,
because history has been kind to his
efforts.
“This all reminds me a of 1980,”
he said. “We had seen the end of the
era with Staubach gone. We had lost
in the playoffs to the Rams in 1979,
but we had a lot of enthusiasm and
there was a challenge in that camp.
“We played well, but the loss to
San Francisco (in the NFC title
game) was very disappointing.
“I’m not sure that 1975 isn’t a bet
ter parallel. We didn’t make the
playoffs the year before and we had
the 12 rookies who made that squad.
They seemed to bring new enthu
siasm.
“I hope that is the case this year
because there will be a lot of rookies
make this team.
It is not difficult to imagine a
down year for Dallas in 1984. The
Cowboys pulled off some amazing
victories during the first half of last
season and without those comebacks
they might well have been looking at
a breakeven record.
And what would fan reaction be if
Tex Schramm
the Cowboys do finally tumble.
“We would get a strong reaction
from the fans,” Schramm said. “We
have very emotional fans. I always
think of that song, ‘You always hurt
the one you love.’
“That’s the way it is when people
are used to winning. They tend to
make very critical statements about a
team because it hurts them when
they lose.
“Of course we dug our own hole
with our success. But that’s a lot bet
ter than having it the other way.”
Superstation
gets CFA
TV contract
United Press International
AUSTIN — Turner Broadcasting
System and the College Football As-
socialion have reached an
agreement to televise 15 Saturday
night games this fall, it was reported
Monday.
The Austin American-Statesman
said the agreement, negotiated over
the weekend, calls for the Atlanta-
based TBS to have second pick of
games that are televised in the af
ternoons by ABC and CBS.
The games will have a 7:05 p.m.
starting time on WTBS, which is car
ried nationally on most cable outlets,
the newspaper said.
University of Texas Athletic Di
rector DeLoss Dodds, who helped
negotiate the contract for the 63-
member group of major college
football powers, declined to disclose
the figures for the TBS deal.
But he said it exceeded the $8 mil
lion that CBS will pay the Big Ten
Conference and the Pacific 10 Con
ference for 14 games over 10 week
ends.
Despite TBS’ second choice of
games, Dodds said “that still leaves
some good ones.”
Lockhart outshines Cannon
at Cowboys’ rookie camp
as many as four times.
Each athlete tested will give two
specimens, and these will be rushed
by special couriers in cars to doping
control. If the first specimen proves
positive, the athlete involved will be
permitted to have a representative
present when the second specimen is
tested.
“We will bend over backwards to
be sure an athlete is positive before
we report him positive,” Daly said.
“We would like not to see any posi
tives.”
As for the possibility of accused
athletes taking legal action, Daly
said, “This was of some concern to
us in the past, but now we think we
have scientific facts to back us up.”
United Press International
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — On
draft day, with the Dallas Cowboys
obviously in need of linebackers,
that team made Billy Cannon of
Texas A&M its surprise opening
pick.
The coaches said they were tired
of drafting projects and wanted to
make sure that with this No. 1 they
acquired somebody who would help
them in a hurry.
But Billy Cannon, who played
linebacker only during his senior
year at Texas A&M, has not exactly
been the star of the Cowboys’ rookie
crop this year. Instead, most of the
talk has been about another young
linebacker — Eugene “The Hitting
Machine” Lockhart.
He is a sixth-round draft choice
from the University of Houston and
he quickly gained the reputation of
being a violent football player.
“When we had our first meeting,”
said Lockhart, “coach (Tom) Landry
told us the best way to make this ball
club was to hit. That was music to my
ears. That’s what I love to do.
“I’ve always enjoyed hitting be
cause that’s what football is all about.
When I go out on the field I expect
to hit and I expect to be hit.”
One of the Cowboys’ chief weak
nesses of late has been its lineback
ing play, so the showing of Lockhart
in the early days of training camp
makes it likely he will win a place on
the team.
The Cowboys cut three
free agent rookies Mon
day to trim their roster to
120 players.
Running back Lionel Wil
son of Houston, defensive
lineman Reese Freeman
of Northern Colorado
and wide receiver Michael
Gray of Bishop College
were placed on waivers.
The cuts left the Cowboys
with 76 rookies.
“That’s what I want to do more
than anything,”he said. “But I know
it is not a certainty.
“I moved from Houston to Dallas
during the summer so I could work
at the practice field every day. I
knew how important it was to get re
ady for this camp.
“I think I was mentally prepared
when I got here. Some players may
not come to camp in the right physi
cal or mental condition and when
they get a little tired they get lacka-
dasical.
“That might give me a little ad
vantage. I don’t even think about
getting tired.”
The injury rate at the Cowboys
camp this year has been high this
year, chiefly because the answer to
Landry’s call for more hitting.
At the end of one afternoon of
work there were 20 new names on
the injured list.
But Lockhart, other than a slight
sting from a hit on his elbow, has
sailed through in fine fasion.
“I believe that if you keep hitting
the other guy as hard as you can, you
are less likely to get hurt yourself,”
said Lockhart. “You cannot afford to
let up one play because if you do that
is the play that you will get hurt.
“So I go all out every play.”
In the opening days of training
camp Landry strolls around from
one area of the other to watch play
ers working with their particular as
sistant coaches.
And at the end of the first week of
camp Lockhart was the one who had
caught his eye the most.
“There are so many players out
there (the Cowboys brought in well
over 100 rookies to their camp) that
it is hard to get a good look,” Landry
said.
“But, of course, there is Lockhart.
He has stood out some.”
Lockhart earned his business de
gree at Houston and if he just as
mentally prepared for another ca
reer as he is for pro football.
“I would just go back to Houston
and get a job,” said Lockhart. “But
this is what I want to do.”
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