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Landry under pressure — Schramm
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IRVING (AP) — Dallas Cowboys
President Tex Schramm said Coach
Tom Landry faces more heat now
than at any time in Schramm’s 38-
year career, but he’s confident the
coach can handle the pressure.
“I still have confidence in Tom,
but there is a lot to look at, if not
now, then at the end of the season,”
Schramm said. “Tom has always
been timely and innovative through
out his career. I still believe in him.”
After a 21-10 loss to the 2-9 At
lanta Falcons on Sunday which all
but knocked Dallas out of the play
offs, new owner Bum Bright came
down hard on Landry.
“Like virtually all Dallas Cowboys
fans I have been most disappointed
and frustrated with the team results
of the last couple of seasons,” he
said. Bright called Schramm the best
chief executive officer in profes
sional sports and said all personnel
decisions will be made by the club
president.
struggling. Landry signed a three-
year contract before this summer’s
training camp.
Monday, Landry said he intended
to honor his three-year commitment
to rebuild the team.
Bright told the Dallas Morning
News Sunday he was “horrified” at
some of the play calling in the At
lanta game and criticized Landry’s
failure to make greater use of de
fensive lineman Danny Noonan, the
team’s first-round draft choice, and
of running back Herschel Walker.
Monday, Bright did not return
phone calls made by the Associated
Press, but he did release a statement
saying he has no intention of getting
involved in team operations, includ
ing coaching.
Monday, Schramm and Landry
credited Bright’s remarks to frustra
tion.
“At least he didn’t give me a vote
of confidence,” Landry joked at a
news conference. “We’re all human
and he’s the owner of the team and
he has a right to say what he wants
to. We’re all frustrated with the sea
son,” Landry said.
“I could step down tomorrow and
not go hungry, but I’ve made a com
mitment to bring this team back up
and I’d like to step out that way,”
Landry said.
He said that he had never had any
front office interference in 27 years
as the Cowboys coach.
Schramm said “times change. It de
pends on whose eyes you’re looking
through. Obviously, there is some
basis of criticism all around in them-
ganization.”
Schramm said he, too, was disap
pointed with the situtation.
“I told my wife this is the lo*
point of 38 years. When we were an
expansion team it was at least excit
ing. This is the worst.”
Schramm said Landry has never
faced this kind of pressure before.
“What happened in the mid-
1960s was a mere trickle compared
to now,” Schramm said. “Not many
people cared one way or the other
back in those days.”
Landry was given a 10-year con
tract by the late Clint Murchison
when the expansion Cowboys were
Bright’s outburst was his first crit
icism in print of the Cowboys. He
told the News he would not buy the
team if he had to do it all over again.
In his statement, Bright clarified
the remark.
“Last night, I was asked if I would
purchase the Dallas Cowboys today
if I had it to do over. I responded,
‘probably not.’ That answer was
based on the current economic prob
lems of Texas, nothing else," he said.
Bright said he is not looking for
potential buyers.
Although Landry has never been
criticized by an owner before,
He said Sunday’s attendance ol
40,165 fans was shocking. It was Dal
las’ smallest home crowd since 1965
in the Cotton Bowl and the smallest
in the 17 years the team has played
at Texas Stadium.
“This is ridiculous,” Schramm
said. “We have to get our fans ex
cited again. We are getting back to
the early 1960s with our negativeit-
cords.”
Schramm said there would beat)
off-season shakeup but added
couldn’t be a big one.
“That’s the most discouraging
part of this season,” Schramm said
“We did a lot of things in the last off
season that I was excited about. We
did a lot after last year.”
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Injuries reached the crisis stage
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“I think practice will be totally dif
ferent this week because the (injury)
list just goes on and on,” Glanville
said. “Our practice will depend on
who’s there.”
Linebacker Johnny Meads had to
shift to a blitzing safety in Sunday’s
game when starter Jeff Donaldson
suffered an injury and Kenny John
son was ejected from the game.
The Oilers reacquired replace
ment cornerback Tony Newsom last
week to compensate for injuries to
Steve Brown and Richard Johnson.
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Oiler coaches were drawing plays
for Newsom on the sidelines during
the game.
Bruce Matthews started the game
at guard but had to shift to tackle in
the second half to help out Dean
Steinkuhler, suffering from an arch
injury.
Quarterback Warren Moon ig
nored a sore shoulder to play in the
game and running back Mike Rozier
The Oilers’ victory over the
Chargers ended a four-game losing
streak, and sets up a battle in the Su-
g erdome Sunday against playoff
ound New Orleans.
“It’s going to take a hell of a team
to v cool this fire,” Oiler cornerback
Patrick Allen said. “We control our
own destiny and that’s all you can
ask for in this business. This is like
life after death for us.”
Glanville said center Jay Pennison
suffered a foot sprain, Meads had a
turf toe, Donaldson suffered a knee
contusion and “Rozier has a little bit
of everything.”
Rookie first round draft pick
Alonzo Highsmith was a bright spot
amid the injuries, getting his most
extensive playing time. He gained 32
yards on 10 carries.
Oklahoma to investigate
allegations of violations
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — The
University of Oklahoma will con
duct its own investigation into a
Dallas newspaper’s report that
some athletes were paid large
sums in a job for which they did
little or no work, Athletic Direc
tor Donnie Duncan said Monday.
The Dallas Morning News, in a
copyright story Sunday, said pay
roll records of Howard Thomas
Johnson list a varsity trainer and
eight people who were then Okla
homa athletes as employees on
landscape projects awarded by
Oklahoma.
Acquaintances and former
business partners know Johnson
simply as “Moose,” the man to see
for tickets to always-sold-out
Sooner football games, the news
paper said.
The newspaper said it talked to
four star players not on the pay
roll lists who said they were given
jobs working for a man they knew
only as “Moose.”
Duncan said there appeared to
be conflicting statements by John
son and the newspaper.
“I think time and the process
of investigation on our part will
give us a clearer picture,” Duncan
said.
“I already have one report
from one young man who . . . was
employed who stated that he
worked very hard and he only got
paid for what he worked,” Dun
can said. Duncan said the man
told him others worked for their
pay, also.
To the claims by student-ath
letes that he supplied “no-show”
summer jobs, Johnson said,
“That’s just a flat-blank lie.”
In 1983, tax withholding forms
for Johnson’s Texas 8c Oklahoma
Tree Farms Inc. list eight Okla
homa players and a team trainer
as having received $7,059 in
wages, the newspaper said.
Two of the four who said they
were given jobs by a man called
“Moose” said they were paid $350
to $450 a week while showing up
for only a handful of workdays,
the newspaper said. NCAA rules
forbid student-athletes from re
ceiving any benefits not available
to other college students. No
other college students were listed
on the Johnson payrolls.
“You’d go to Moose and all
he’d ask was how many days you
worked,” said one player. “You'd
say ‘four or five,’ and he’d just
write out the check. He already
knew how much you needed.”
Said another: “Moose took care
of us. He didn’t ask if you showed
up. He just paid you.”
Both players, who asked not to
be identified, said their checks
were written on Johnson’s per
sonal account, not on the payroll
account of Texas & Oklahoma
Tree Farms or Twam Nursery,
another Johnson venture.
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