Wednesday • November 29, 1995
Sports
Page 9 • The Battalion
Cowboys to scrap
artificial turf
Baseball
salaries dip
in 1995
□ Jerry Jones said
Texas Stadium would
be grass by 1997.
IRVING (AP) — Emmitt
Smith should be running on
grass in Texas Stadium by 1997
if he can escape being injured
again until then.
At least that’s what Dallas
owner Jerry Jones promised on
Tuesday, saying, “there will be
grass, make no
mistake about
it.”
The NFL’s
leading rusher
was injured try
ing to make a
cut on the slick
artificial Texas
Stadium turf in
the third quar
ter of a 24-12
victory over
Kansas City on Thanksgiving
Day. Smith suffered a sprained
left knee and could play on Sun
day against the Washington Red
skins.
The near miss sent shud
ders through the Cowboys or
ganization.
“There is a concern (about
the tmT) because we don’t have
the traction that should be out
there,” Jones said. “The turf is
worn out enough that we’re
pushing the envelope. The turf
is too slick.”
However, Jones said he did
n’t think the turf caused
Smith’s injury.
“I don’t think it’s an issue
with Emmitt’s injury,” Jones
said.
Smith didn’t blame the turf
but did say the injury probably
wouldn’t have happened on
grass.
“I think grass would have giv
en when I planted my foot,”
Smith said.
Smith played all of the 1994
season battling hamstring prob
lems which were aggravated by
the artificial surface.
Jones said he hoped construc
tion would begin at the end of the
1996 season to low
er the field by 15
feet and plant
grass. He also
wants the roof of
the stadium closed.
The Cowboys
would have to find
a strain of grass
that grows indoors
or put grass in for
every game and re
move it.
“I think grass is safer and I
like the aura of it,” Jones said.
“You go to ice hockey games to
see play on an artificial surface.
You go to a football game to see a
game on grass. We want it
(grass) in there and I hope we’ll
have the grass surface ready to
go by 1997.”
Jones put a price tag of about
$35 million on getting a roof over
the doughnut hole in Texas Sta
dium, lowering the field 15 feet,
putting in grass, and renovating
some lower level seating. He said
the funds would come from his
own pocket, an Irving bond issue,
and business partners.
□ The average major-
league salary was
$1,110,766 last season.
NEW YORK (AP) — The av
erage baseball salary went
down by nearly $58,000 this
year, the first substantial de
cline in 30 years.
The average salary was
$1,110,766, according to final
figures released Tuesday by
the Major League Baseball
Players Association at its an
nual meeting in Aventura, Fla.
That was a 5 percent drop from
the 1994 average of $1,168,263.
Clubs spent more money on
players this year — about $924
million, an increase of $15 mil
lion. And the New York Yan
kees became the first club with
an average to top $2 million —
$2,000,271.
But the average declined be
cause there were far more play
ers in the majors on Aug. 31,
the last day before rosters ex
panded. While there were 762
players in the majors in Aug.
31, 1994, there were 824 on
Aug. 31 this year. The increase
was caused by more players on
the disabled list.
This year’s decline also was
due to the huge increase in
rookies, caused by the teams’
desire to reduce payrolls fol
lowing the 232-day strike.
There were 238 players with
less than one year of major
league service on Aug. 31 ma
jor-league rosters, an increase
of 100 from 1994.
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