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On September 4th, 1978, the Baltimore Colts faced the Dallas Cowboys at Texas Stadium for the first Monday Night Football Game of the Year.
Baltimore was coached by Ted Marchabrota and they had won the AFC East Division Championship for three straight seasons.
But Marchabrota's success stopped there, as the team had not won a single playoff game in any of those three seasons.
The Cowboys were the defending Super Bowl champs and were coached by Tom Landry in his 19th season with the team.
This audio recording is from the CBS Radio broadcast featuring announcers Jack Buck and Hank Stram.
The left tackle was Mike Barne, the right tackle was Joe Erman, number 76.
The right end was John Dutton, number 78.
The left tackle was Mike Barne, number 78.
The right tackle was Mike Barne, number 78.
The left tackle was Mike Barne, number 78.
The right tackle was Joe Erman, number 76.
The right end was John Dutton, number 78.
The left linebacker was Darryl Luce, the middle linebacker at Stiminini.
The right linebacker was Stan White, number 53.
The left corner was Norm Thompson, the right corner was Doug Nettles, who was starting that position for the first time.
Strong safety was Butch Laird and pre-safety was Lyle Blackwood.
These cowboys are very shortly will be coming out of the field here at Dallas.
Their offense is anchored by Roger Stompach and they have a new starter at the wide receiver position.
Yes, the great young receiver from Stanford, number 80 will start at that position.
The left tackle will be Pat Donovan, number 67.
The left guard, Herbert Scott, 68.
Senator John Fitzgerald, the oldest member of that offensive line, number 62.
The right guard, Tom Rafferty, number 64, right tackle, Andy Frederick, number 71.
Tight end, 89. Billy Joe Dupre from Michigan State University.
Wingback, Drew Pearson, number 88.
Quarterback, Roger Stompach, number 12.
And running back, Tony Dorsett, number 33, along with Proback, Robert Newhouse, house number 44.
The defensive personality of this team, left end Ed Tutel Jones, number 72.
Left tackle, Jeff Rowe Pugh, number 75.
Right tackle, Randy White, 54.
Right end, Harvey Martin, number 79.
Left linebacker, 56. Tom Hennerson, middle linebacker, Bob Brunig, the right linebacker, number 50.
Dee Dee Lewis, the left corner, number 31. Vinnie Barnes, the right cornerback, number 25.
Aaron Kyle, strong safety, 41. Charlie Waters, and the free safety, number 43, Cliff Harris.
With regard to the Baltimore Colts, without Bert Jones and Michael Mitchell tonight,
the Colts are without 82% of their 1977 offense, in that last year,
Jones passes for more than 2,600 yards, and he ran for 146.
While Mitchell gained more than 1,100 yards on the ground, the Colts as a team gained 4,588 yards.
And we know that the Colts are counting on Don McCauley and Ron Lee to pick up the slack,
and it'll be interesting to see the approach of the Baltimore Colts tonight,
whether they play it close to the vaster, try to open it up and steal one from the Cowboy.
No, I don't think they'll try to do that. I think that Mike Kirkland will have every opportunity in the world
to use the tools and the skills that they would normally use with Bert Jones at the quarterback position.
They're going to try very carefully not to reduce the size of the field for the Dallas Cowboys.
They're going to try to make them go the full distance anytime they get possession of the ball.
The biggest problem that you have when a young quarterback plays is that you don't want to put your team
in a position where you create a combo or you throw an interception,
make some kind of a mental mistake where the Dallas Cowboys would have possession
and only have 30, 40, or 25 yards to go for a touchdown.
That's the one thing that they want to eliminate.
You know, there's three phases. As you know, Jack, of the professional football and off-football,
there's the offense, the defense, and the specialty teams.
And I've always felt very firm with two out of the three.
Then you've always got a chance to win the football game.
And so the Baltimore Colts could realistically not win the game offensively,
but win the other two and could come out the winner.
And along those lines, I know that some people look at the specialty teams of the Baltimore Colts
in a rather suspicious fashion, and they were hurt frequently in that department last year.
I had the pleasure of watching them play an off-standing football team.
They were burned with the specialty teams of other clubs in the past,
and they'd better be good tonight in order to compete.
Peter, he indicated that they worked as way to get them.
He's been covering kicks and presenting teams from blocking kicks.
So I'm sure that they'll work very well. They were very well prepared in that area.
Plus the fact that they know that they just can't afford to do a poor job in a specialty team area
where their offense is in such a way to make it is and expect to win.
The Cowboys in the preseason were winners over the 49ers, Denver and Pittsburgh,
and they lost to their state neighbor, Houston.
Baltimore's only victory was against Detroit, and that was their last time out.
They lost to Pittsburgh, they lost to Tampa, and they lost to Washington.
But all three of those games that they lost in the preseason,
they were either ahead in two of them at half-time, and they were tied at half-time of the other.
Then they played the additional people that they had to play in order to pair this quad down
to the 45-man player limit, and they ended up losing it.
But they've been saving something for the Cowboys, and we'll see it very shortly.
Both teams are on the field, and we'll soon have the opening kickoff.
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The Dallas Cowboys have won the toss, and I almost have the feeling that Baltimore would almost prefer it that way
to let their defensive unit, which is very, very good, try to set the tempo for this game.
Yes, I think that's a good feeling when you're going to a game like the Baltimore Coast are going into this one.
I think if they feel they can make the Dallas Cowboys travel 75 or 80 yards,
why they've got a good chance possibly to get possession of the ball somewhere along the line,
get good field position, and get it in a position to strike quickly in this game.
Tony Linnard, the veteran from Austria who kicks the field goals, also is the kickoff man,
so the ball will be teed up on the 35-yard line, and as you tune us in here on CBS,
the Colts will be going from our right to our left, and the deep men for the Cowboys are going to be putsch Johnson.
He'll be back inside the five-yard line, and he'll soon be joined now by Dennis Thurman.
And Thurman for the Cowboys is one of the few rookies, only five who have made the grade with the Cowboys this year.
Jack, it's interesting to note that five young people made this Dallas Cowboys team again, Larry Bethea,
their number one draft choice from Michigan State, although it's Blackwell from Houston,
number four, Tom Randall, number seven from Iowa State, Dennis Thurman, number 11, Leavenpick,
number 32, and Rapheel Septiana, free agent kicker that we drafted in New Orleans, number 10, just a year ago.
Okay, we have putsch Johnson back there with Dennis Thurman, and a deep kick goes into the end zone.
It's taken by Johnson after the 10-15. He bundles the ball near the 25-yard line, and Baltimore has the football.
Butch Johnson caught it three yards deep in the end zone. He came out, he was hit at the 20.
He went down at the 25, and the rookie, Reese McCall, a tight end from Auburn, fell on it,
and it is Baltimore's ball first and 10 to go on the Dallas 25.
You know, an interesting thing about that return, number one, it was a left return,
and Butch Johnson was carrying the ball in his right arm. The inside pressure got a piece of it.
He fumbled, they recovered, and Baltimore has possession. Time for a big play.
And now he goes to the right side. Roger Carr is split left. Mike Kirkland is the quarterback in the I formation.
He has leaps to pull back up close, gives it to Leakes, and he drives over the left yard position for only a couple of yards.
He's in the backfield, along with John McCauley, who along with Ron Lee will try to take the place of the departed.
Lydell Mitchell and Harvey Martin made the first tackle, and a pick up on the play of three yards,
it's second down and seven for the Coles, going from our right to our left on the 22 yard line of the Cowboys.
Up front the Cowboys, that's Jones, Jester O'Pew, Randy White, and Harvey Martin.
Roger Carr is to this side with Glenn Dowdy's, flank right. Out of the I formation again, Kirkland a quarterback,
hands off to McCauley, he's hit at the line of scrimmage, he gained the yard, it's going to be third down and sixth, and Randy White took him down.
Yes he did, and they're trying to run, they ran from an I formation that time, they're trying to run to the flex defense,
the tackle or the end, who is off the line of scrimmage, they're trying to attack that area.
That time they didn't attack it very well, their people, their left side just did not blow the people off the line of scrimmage,
Robert Prett, and just did not get the surge that you have to have to make yardies in that play.
Thomas Henderson, Bob Bruning, and D.D. Lewis are the linebackers for the Cowboys, and Mike Kirkland might throw the ball for the first time.
It's on the 21-yard line of the Cowboys, and Kirkland on a draw play, gives it to Leakes,
his tackle at the 20-yard line, and it'll be fourth down as Guffro Piero made the tackle,
along with the linebacker Henderson, first Martin made the tackle, then White made the tackle,
and now Pugh has made a tackle, and Tony Linnhart, who kicked off only moments ago, about a minute and 40 seconds ago,
will try a 27-yard field goal to put the colts on top, here in the early goal.
You know, one thing about the Dallas defense, they read when they act pursuant tackle as well as anybody in the league,
and in this situation, I thought perhaps they might try to throw a play action pass early,
because that's something that you have to do especially on early downs.
Linnhart will spot it, Linnhart will kick it, we wait for the snap, and for it's blue, there's the snap, the set, the kick,
it's got a chance, and it is covered!
Move it off to the right, so the Colts will follow the ball, and early off the cut of it,
they recover the fumble, and they missed the 27-yard field goal with a score, nothing, nothing, let's take the time out.
The day is done, it's time to let it go, it's the moment to unwind, so just say goodbye,
and for the King of the earth, and settle back, and to be yourself, no matter what you do,
no matter when or where, you know a glass of blood is like an easy chip,
when you say bird, wild, you said it all, and I the bush say good.
The Colts get the ball with their own 20-yard line, as a result of the miss field goal, we have 12-49 remaining in the first quarter, no score,
and Roger Stubbock will bring Dorsett and Newhouse as they set back out in the I-formation,
Drew Pearson comes to the right side, and Tony Hill, they have two tight ends with Sal de N Dupree running from the two tight ends,
Newhouse, back for five, six, seven yards, over the left side, and the two tight ends, appears to be something that the Colts are going to have to deal with early.
Well they're trying to neutralize the weak linebacker, the linebacker away from the tight end side, Stan White,
they ran a misdirection play, a counter play, and handled very well, Newhouse picked up a thick chunk on first down.
And it is second down and free as a result from the down as 27-yard line, in the I-formation, this is Dorsett got outside,
got a first down across the 30-yard line, and tackled in the vicinity of the 32s, so the Cowboys get the first first down of the night,
holding across the 30-yard line, first Newhouse and then Dorsett, and that tackle was made by Doug Nettles the cornerback,
and a good tackle it was, the Cowboys will go from their own 31-yard line, as they try to take it to them early,
they have John Fitzgerald at the center spot with Scott and Lawless at the guard,
Donovan and Frederick at the tackle positions, Dupree at the tight end along with Jay Salde,
Tony Hill is to the left and Drew Pearson is flanked to the right, it's first down from the 31,
and Dorsett gets only about the yard as he was hit in a hurry by Joe Ehrman, who by the way overcame a broken hand during the preseason play
to get back in the lineup for the Colts.
You know the great thing about Tony Dorsett, he is an exceptionally good runner from the I-formation,
and the great thing about the I-formation is the fact that a back with his quickness and speed can start at one side of the line of scrimmage
and wind up over on the other side because it's a formation where he can see very well and his shoulders are always squared
to the line of scrimmage and he can change directions extremely well.
The Cowboys shift into the pro set and now they go to a wing formation and on second down to nine,
Stubbock will throw for the first time.
From the pocket he throws it short and complete across the 36.
A flag is down as Dorsett caught the ball thrown by Stubbock and Stan White,
the linebacker from Ohio State made the tackle and the officials talk it over.
That kind of a play is an option play with a left half back running inside or outside on the linebacker.
In this case it was Stan White, he made the inside move and of course made the catch but there's a penalty on the play.
And the penalty is against the Colts, moving the ball out to the 37.
Inhealable shot defense, first down.
Penalty against the Baltimore Colts.
And a first down, the second of the night for the Cowboys now at their 37 yard line.
Gerson and Hill both go to the same side for the first time this evening
and Dupree the tight end will split out as the officials call time to get the sideline markers squared away.
10.57 left in the first quarter, no score.
You know Tom Landry indicated during the course of the week that he was a little concerned about the running game.
He didn't feel that they ran well enough in preseason and he was concerned about it.
He felt that the passing was farther along than a running but they're running good tonight so far.
Hill and Dupree are, Hill and Gerson are both to the left with Dupree on the tight end position.
And they go into the wing T formation, the Cowboys shift and on first down, the inside hand off the new house
and he gets only a couple of these Colts that's tough to run against and it was John Dutton, the defensive end who got to them first.
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Second to nine for the Cowboys from their own 38.
They go from our left to our right with 10.5 left in the first quarter, no score.
And they use the full house backfield, shipped into a high formation and with a man in motion they had Stubbock back to throw his right.
He throws and it is picked off.
It is intercepted at the 45 yard line by the cornerback Norm Thompson and he is tackled at the 40 yard line of Dallas and the Cowboys and other turnover.
First to fumbles, now an interceptionist, Pat Gutterbott, made the tackle on Norm Thompson who picked it off and Stubbock was back on his heels when he threw it.
Yes, he threw the ball off balance or something that you don't see him do very well.
He just threw the ball up for grad.
Joe Erman put a lot of pressure on him from the inside, number 76, and Mike Barnes also was in on the play number 63 that provided the pressure to make him throw the ball when he really didn't want to.
Oh, the ball, is that the Dallas 40 yard line?
First time the Colts had it, they had it at the 25 yard line of Dallas and now they have it at the Dallas 40 and they have the rookie quarterback Mike Kirkland in there.
What a night this must be for him, Hank.
Oh, it's a great opportunity but of course Mike has been a big league performer, played at the University of Arkansas, he's been involved in a lot of pressure situations and I think he's going to respond very well tonight.
It's going to be interesting to see what they do on this first down position.
They were very conservative in the first opportunity, they ran the ball three times and then kicked the field goal and missed.
I wouldn't be a bit surprised to see them open up here with a play action pass and try to get a big play and get the ball down the field and try to get a lead in this game.
Did you know that Mike Kirkland is the first fun pass and kick champion to ever make it to the National Football League?
He was a champion at age 13 in area.
No, I didn't know that.
And let's see what he can do. He's getting plenty of advice down there from Bert Jones wearing a shoulder harness, sees in civvies and on the sideline along with Bill Truefile whom I understand could play tonight if he had to.
Yes, they indicated that he might be able to play.
He's got very much the same kind of an injury as Bert Jones. It's not quite as severe but in the event that he had to play they could press him into action and I can think he could perform admirably.
And if they all go down including Mike Kirkland, well then Don McCauley would take over the quarterbacking chores.
It's the first down for the Colts at the 40 yard line of the Cowboys.
Roger Carr comes to the left with Glenn Dowdy flanked to the right.
And on first down, Kirkland with Leeks in the backfield, hands to the full back. He drives for three and a little bit more as he goes over the left side and Bob Bruning, the middle linebacker, got him.
Ken Mendenhall is the center for the Colts with Robert Cratt and Ken Huff playing the guard.
Wade Griffin at the left tackle and George Cones at the right tackle and Wadah Chor, Wade Griffin is tonight.
You know, as interesting a note on that play, Dede Lewis went over the split in, Roger Carr number 81, they too must have anticipated the fact that he might throw a play action pass or a pass on first down.
Doddy and Carr are both to the left side on second down and seven. Here's the gift to McCauley and Leeks couldn't get out of his way.
And he has stopped right at the line of spin. Harvey Martin covered him as Roosevelt Leeks failed to clear out and McCauley ran up his back.
It'll be third down and seven for the Colts who haven't thrown the ball yet.
We have 9-20 remaining in the first quarter. There is no score.
Earlier Tony Linnhart missed a 27 yard field goal attempt for the Colts. Bill Goose eggs on the scoreboard.
Leeks is out and Marshall Johnson, a third year man from Houston, is into the game now and they are using free wide receivers.
And the first pass from Kirkland over the middle and over Throne and in complete.
It was intended for Marshall Johnson. He was covered by Benny Barnes coming off the corner and it's fourth down.
And it is going to be, are they going to punt it or try another field goal? Looks like a punning situation for David Leeks.
It's going to be a very depressing thing for a team like Baltimore to have the opportunity.
I'm sure they win another game thinking, well we've got to get a good break and get good field position.
They've had it twice and couldn't capitalize on the opportunity that was presented. This has got to be demoralizing.
And they've got to really hang in their tough and not get their rubber down if they hope to do a good job offensively the rest of the way.
David Leeks stands at midfield but Johnson is the single safety. Leeks will probably try to kick it out of bounds.
Cowboys show a nine man, ten man rush. There's the snap. Well handled. Leeks angles it for the sideline.
It's high in the air. A fair catch is called for. It bounces into the end zone, out of the end zone and the Cowboys will take over for the second time tonight on their own 20 yard line.
847 remaining in the first period and the Cowboys get the ball back at their own 20.
How would you think so far in addition to the demoralizing aspects for Baltimore, Hank?
We'll ask you that question when we come back. A timeout on the field with a score. Baltimore nothing in Dallas.
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Cowboys ball, they show the same offensive unit. First and 10 at their own 20 yard line going from our left to our right and they send Drew Pearson to the left side.
Split Billy Joe DePree. Now he's in tight at the tight end position. Tony Hill is in motion. He sets up on a wing and Stalbock at quarterback gives to Newhouse.
He has slowed down and tackled for a one yard loss. First thing through first of all was Mike Barnes who was the defensive lineman of the year last year in the NFL.
He got good penetration on that play and evidently the Cowboys are concerned about the quickness and the recovery speed of the Baltimore Coast.
They've run a lot of counter plays so far in this game and that was a counter play there that didn't succeed because of the aggressive play of Mike Barnes number 63.
Tom Landry continues to call a place for the Cowboys alternating his guard, Graffity and Lawless here second and 11 and Dorsett gets back to the original line of scrimmage and only two yards more before Mike Barnes tackled him again.
On the previous play, Mark Barnes slowed him down and Joe Ehrman combined to make the tackle and this time it was Barnes once more and third down and long, third and eight for the Cowboys from their own 22.
Now, the Cowboys are out and into the backfield now is Preston Pearson. So we have Drew Pearson and Preston Pearson both in the lineup.
Hill to the left, Preston Pearson to the right on third and eight for the Cowboys from their own 22 and they get into the shotgun formation with the double wing and back to throw a stop block.
He has a lot of time and dumps it off for the first down to Preston Pearson at the 35 to the 40 to the 42 yard line and Pearson was all by himself and the Cowboys get their second first down of the night and Darrell Lewis, the linebacker finally caught up with it.
Great illustration of great boys on the part of Roger Stabot. He was trying to hit the crossing pattern with his tight end coming across. He was covered, didn't see him and as a result he dumped the ball off to Preston Pearson who last year incidentally caught 46 passes for 535 yards.
Now the two tight ends, Billy Joe Dupree and Jay Salty are both in there out of the I formation first down from their own 42 back into a post set and here is the give the new house over the right side tackle.
He got only about a yard as he was tripped up right at the line of scrimmage Darrell Lewis, the linebacker cracked in and Fred Cook, the defensive end wouldn't give ground.
The second to nine for Dallas from their own 43 and Tony Hill comes back in and Jay Salty goes out and Dallas continues to try to confuse the defensive unit.
They use a lot of variety offensively as you know, man in motion, they create formation, they double shift and they try to create a moment of indecision and they do a good job of it because they make people move around and jump around a lot a lot.
Tony Hill is back in there the tail back door set goes over the right side gets a little bit down to the 46 drive line of Baltimore for another first down door set,
sliding over the right side using his blocking very well stopped by Thompson and Blackwood, but didn't he use that interference?
Yes, he did and Tom Rafferty did a good job along with Andrew Frederick and Tony Hill did a good job of blocking on the cornerback and provided Tony door set with the opportunity to pick up that nice game in the first down.
Well, that was a big burst for door set down to the Baltimore 41 and the first time that the Cowboys have been into enemy territory.
Dupree sets up on the left side and both Pearson and Hill are to the right now for the Cowboys.
First down at the 41 yard line, motion by Pearson and back to throwing first down Stubbock.
They short those long, Hill cannot get there incomplete overthrown out of bounds and Stubbock saw the danger there threw it away and he was jacked when he unloaded.
Norm Thompson was the primary coverage man.
That was a bootleg. The backs went to Rogers left and of course Roger went to the right.
He tried to hit Tony Hill on an up and outside move and then an up move, but he was covered very well and of course Roger very wisely threw it over the top so it wouldn't be an intersection.
And Fred Cook got a whack in at Stubbock who ended up on the deck at second down and 10.
This is when Tom Landry shows a lot of imagination. You think he's committed to a passing series and he'll come up with something else like the draw for example.
They're into the process and on second down and 10 Stubbock is back to throw rush hit throws the screen incomplete.
He wanted to get at the new house but the pressure from Cook was too much and Stubbock had to get rid of it. It'll be third down in 10.
That was incredible. He was full speed.
He really was. He looked like he was in the starting block and ready to come off the ball before the ball was snapped.
Andy Frederick tried to cut him and he missed him. He went right over the top of it.
Well they try to cut him too low and that's what happens if you try to throw too low on that defensive end especially as agile as Cook is.
He'll jump right over the top and still get to the quarterback.
Preston Pearson is back in there as Robert Newhouse is out of the lineup into the shotgun on third and 10 from the Baltimore 41 Stubbock back to throw looks and throws over the middle and it is caught.
And it is going to be a first down inside the 30.
Now let's see a whistle brings it back. A whistle brings it back but it still will be a first down at the Baltimore 31 yard line.
Let's check out what the officials saw to cause the play to be there. Ray Oldham was in there and got a hand on the receiver who was Preston Pearson once again.
At that time they had five backs in the game number 25 Ray Oldham was covering man for man on Tony on Preston Pearson.
He just went right down, drove him back, cut to the outside.
The ball was right on the numbers of beautifully thrown ball by Roger Stubbock but that's a great illustration.
They had three receivers on the left side of the ball and two on the right side, a triple double wing formation which was very effective.
Now they do not give the Cowboys the forward progress that they thought they had and it's going to be fourth down and about a foot.
It looks like they're going to go for the first down attempt.
Ray Oldham kicked the receiver, Preston Pearson in the back inadvertently but any touching when the man is down means that the play is dead.
So they're going to go for it with Newhouse and Dorsett and the two tight ends in there.
The Cowboys need less than a yard from the 36 of Baltimore.
First down, a flag is down, Newhouse gets to the 30.
That'll be a first down unless the infraction was against the Cowboys and I do not believe it was.
No, I don't think it was. I think it was against the Baltimore Colts.
Roger evidently changed the rhythm of the count or changed the inflection in his voice and it made them jump and of course they got a cheap first down.
And now it's first in 10 on the 30.
Finally, he's going to be the first down.
Oh, it's by this. We'll be taken to the 30 yard line of the Colts.
And the Cowboys, though, are suffering a little bit or on the move.
Five and a half left in the first quarter, no score.
Wouldn't be a bit surprised to see him throw some kind of a play action pass on his first down in this particular area of the field.
Michael and Pearson are both to the left side. Now he'll come to motion back to the right. I formation to give the door set.
He's trying to get outside. He is in trouble.
Cut it back, gains a couple of yards and made a pretty good run out of it.
Brought down by Fred Cook who came from the other side of the field.
That was another counterplay at this time from the I formation and the defensive unit of the Baltimore Colts played it extremely well.
Door set, made it on his own, got down to the 27 yard line of the Colts.
Where it'll be second down and seventh with five minutes left in the quarter.
Sanders-Shiver is in. Darryl Loose out at the left linebacker spot for the Colts who show the normal 4-3 defense.
They're showing actually a six man front, but then the linebackers drop off on second down and sixth.
Stubbock gives the ball to door set and an end around to Tony Hill. He throws the ball and it is incomplete in the end zone.
Incomplete.
Karn near a Dallas touchdown.
As Belly Joe DePree went diving for it down there, Drew Pearson right at the end line almost caught that ball.
Laird and Nuttles were both covering and Dallas almost made the pass play from the flanker position fail.
Yes, they use a lot of gimmick plays and I, that's why I alluded to that a minute ago.
I thought maybe they would do something like that on first down, but they like reverses. They like screens. They like quick screens.
A lot of people on their football team can throw the option fast.
It was an illustration of Tony Hill throwing it and they almost got away with the touchdown.
Preston Pearson is back in the lineup for the Cowboys.
They're going to the shotgun formation on third down and sixth from the 26.
I'll call them all stop back to throw looks and throws and it is caught for a first down at the 11 yard line.
A brilliant catch by Drew Pearson who was undressed by Norm Thompson, but held the ball and Drew Pearson is not going to get up right away.
We're coming down for 16.
And the first quarter Pearson is up on his feet. He's okay. And there is the timeout.
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Thanks for having Jack Buck with you from Dallas. The Cowboys had a first down at the 15 yard line of the Baltimore coast.
Dorset carried down to the 12 and it's second down and seven coming up.
Hill goes to the left. Drew Pearson to the right. Two tight ends are in there. Dupree and Salty.
Now Butch Johnson is a wide receiver. Here's a good new house on a slant inside the 10 drive.
He has close to a first down. It is the first down for the Cowboys.
It'll be first and goal to go, Mr. Strand.
They had a double tight, a double wing formation with only one back in the backfield.
Bobby Newhouse, number 44. There ran an off tackle play to the left with Herbert Scott pulling on the defensive linebacker, Stan White.
The tight end did a good job of blocking down. They had a good cavity and as a result,
they had a down to the five yard line of big play and a good game.
Cowboys started from their own 20 yard line after David Lee booted it into the end zone.
They've gone 75. It's first and goal at the five yard line.
It's Dorset and Newhouse in the backfield. Again, the two tight ends as the Cowboys try to get the first score of the night.
Stalbock takes it, hands it off to Dorset. He goes deep to get away from one tackle, two tackles, but not the third.
And he loses on the play back to the ten yard line and it'll be second and goal from the ten.
Wow, Blackwood wouldn't turn a loose.
That play was designed initially to go inside, kind of an off tackle play, but it was plugged.
So Tony Dorset ran outside and of course wasn't able to break the turn.
Number 44, Blackwood made the play.
Newhouse and Dorset are the setbacks.
We have 145 remaining in the first quarter, no score.
Hill goes to the left, Drew Pearson to the right side.
Two tight ends, Salty and Dupree.
Stalbock back to the throw.
Jumps and throws the screen. It's caught by Newhouse. He is back to the five, to the four.
Through the one yard line and cover there.
It'll be third and goal from the one and Newhouse showing tremendous talent.
He's made an excellent play on the screen.
He's built very low to the ground, as you know, and terrific balance.
And he got that strictly on his own because they got a shot at him.
It was Laird who tripped him up, I think, and then he was covered by Simonini, the middle linebacker.
Yes, but Bruce Laird made the tackle. Number 40.
Oh, it's third and goal from the one.
Shotted out first and goal from the five. Newhouse and Dorset in the backfield.
Stalbock on third down.
Takes a snap and keeps the ball and throws, and it is incomplete as the Wurthy receiver stumbles and fell in the end zone.
And are the Cowboys going to try? Gamble on fourth down or go for three?
Jay Salty would have been all along in the end zone, but he tripped and fell, and no one was there for Stalbock.
He looked like he ran right out of the bleachers, the play-action pass.
This is something that they do an awful lot in this situation, and it's surprising that Bollemore was caught so surprised because he was wide open.
And fortunately for the Bollemore Colts, he stumbled and fell because he was wide open.
With Charlie Waters holding, Raphael, 70 in, played nice here for the Rams, tries to get his first Dallas point.
He'll kick it from the nine yard line.
The snap is good, the set is good, the kick is good. No good!
70 in misses. They call it a chip shot. It's never easy, but he missed from nine yards away.
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36 seconds remaining in the first quarter here and no score. What about step-in on that last kick, Hank?
We drafted him number 10 when I was in New Orleans two years ago.
He's got a great leg, but he has a tendency to try to kick easy in the scoring area.
Instead of attacking the ball, he kind of tries to chip it. That was a good illustration of it.
He tried to pop it up and he brought his head up a little bit too soon as a result of Mr. Kick.
Dallas went 79 yards, kept the ball for more than eight minutes, but came up short.
And now Mike Kirkman, a quarterback, gives to his running back.
Roosevelt leaps the full back off the right side and he got one and Bob Bruning stopped him there.
They're giving forward progress out to the 22-yard line.
And incredibly, it would appear we're going to have a scoreless first quarter here in Dallas with the Cowboys having gone in as a top heavy favorite in this game.
But they've made two turnovers and they've missed a field goal.
And that could help the Baltimore Colts an awful lot because I'm sure they felt badly about the fact they blew two scoring opportunities themselves.
Now they have possession of score still 0-0.
Doughty is to the left, Roger Carr is flanked right, and here is a give to the second man through, and that's the tail back down McCauley.
He ran into a stone wall, got out near the 24-yard line. It'll be second down and sixth for Baltimore there.
The gun sounds, the end of the first quarter with a score of Baltimore nothing, and Dallas nothing.
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Interesting thing Jack, Drew Pearson has caught 46 straight games, caught passes in 46 straight games, and that surpasses his own record.
What a great accomplishment for this great receiver, Drew Pearson. He paid for the one he caught tonight, didn't he? Yes he did.
He certainly did, but he bounced right back up, he came right back into the ball game, but he's tough and he makes, catches inside, outside, going away, and that's what makes him such a premier receiver in the National Football League.
This game started with Butch Johnson fumbling the opening kickoff, was covered by McCall, Reese McCall, the rookie of Baltimore.
McCall couldn't move it, Lenhard missed the 27 yard field goal attempt, and there was an interception by Norm Thompson with 10 minutes left in the quarter, that stopped the Dallas drive.
Then Dallas went 79 yards, kept the ball for 8 minutes and 11 seconds, and Raphael kept the end missed a 9 yard field goal, hence were scoreless, going into the second quarter.
Interesting thing, time possession wise, Jack, Dallas has had it for 11 minutes and 51 seconds, Baltimore 3 and 9 seconds, and the score is still remarkable, just a remarkable stat, 0-0.
Roosevelt leaps goes out, and Marshall Johnson is the other running back with Don McCauley now for the Colts. On third down and seventh, and here is a gift to McCauley, he almost broke the play, but he was tackled and got only to the 25, and David Lee will have to kick it again.
Kyle came up from the corner, he was so sure that Kirkland wasn't going to throw the ball, he stuck his nose in the backfield and made the defense.
Yes, they come up a lot more aggressively because they know that the Baltimore Colts team seemingly is going to play it very close to the vest, very conservative, and Baltimore so far is 0-3 on third down confersions.
He stands at the 10, he'll kick it from about the 15, and Butch Johnson is the single safety inside his 35 yard line. We're at Texas Stadium in Dallas, CBS Radio, Ankstram and Jack Buck, scoreless here in the second quarter, and a whistle stops play, and that is too much time against Baltimore, and that will send David Lee back to his 5 yard line to wait for the snap.
That'll make it fourth down at about 12.
And the thing, Dallas jumps around an awful lot on punting situations, they want to create problems as far as blocking responsibilities are concerned.
Evidently they created a problem that time, and too much delay, and they get a 5 yard penalty.
The layup game costs the Colts 5. So David Lee stands at his 5, he'll kick it away from the 10, Butch Johnson moves up to his 40.
He'll kick the snap, not much pressure. Lee's kick is pretty good, and it's going to be taken by Johnson at the sideline, goes down the sideline, 45 midfield, down to the 45 yard line of Baltimore, before Robert Pratt got to him and stopped him there.
The Cowboys take over on the Baltimore, 45 yard line, first and 10.
That kind of a play is very deceptive, because a lot of the time when you're that close to the sideline, they think possibly that you're going to let it go out of bounds, and maybe you are out of bounds, and they kind of relax a little bit.
And as a result, Butch Johnson was able to bring the ball back in good shape. The hang time for that kick that time was 4 seconds.
With the ball at the Baltimore, 45 yard line, Drew Pearson goes to the right, and Tony Hill splits left in the I formation stop-on, gets to the tailback, Dorsett over the right side for 5, over for 9.
He got a 10 yard, and very close to a first now. Dorsett with his best first of the night, Darryl Luce, and Bruce Blair came up and got him.
The great thing about the I formation, as I mentioned earlier, that play was designed to go to the left, but it was plugged up there. He saw some running room to the right side, scampered off to the cavity to the right side, and made at least 9 yards, and possibly 10 and up for a first now.
We'll wait for the measurement.
A measure, and the Cowboys are an inch short. Second down and one, this is a beautiful gambling down, Mr. Stram.
Yes it is, and of course the Baltimore coast know that too, so it's going to be interesting to see what they'll do and how they'll respond, and whether Roger Stabach will try something big on this waist down of second and one.
We're early in the second quarter, 1350 remaining in the half. From the Baltimore 35, it's second down and two tight ends in there again for the Cowboys.
Stabach has it, gives it new house first down, and if he squirts to the 37 yard line of the coast.
Well the Cowboys, played it straight, got the first down, Joe Ehrman made the tackle.
An off tackle, a basic simple vanilla play off tackle with the right guard Burton Lullis pulling to the right. It was supposed to be off tackle, off the block of the tight end, but there was running room inside.
He took advantage of it, ran inside and got the necessary yardage for the first down.
The two tight ends stay in there, do free and saldy for the Cowboys, and that presents problems for the safety men of the coast.
Yes it does, and here again with double tight, you expect him to run, he might throw some kind of a play action pass in his first down.
Here it is.
Here is the play action pass, Stabach backs it through, and he throws over the middle, and it is off the fingertips of Pearson.
Drew Pearson couldn't handle it, Bruce Laird was trying to stay with him, but Pearson had position, went up high, the ball went off his hands incomplete.
And he got some pressure on the inside from Joe Ehrman, but it was a good play that time, they tried to create the impression they were going to try to stick the ball in from that double tight end formation, but threw a play action pass on first down, it would have been a good completion, he just didn't catch it.
And the pass was just a bit overthrown, thrown high at second down and ten from the Baltimore 32.
Tony Hill is back in there, as saldy is out.
Drew Pearson comes left with Hill to the right, second down and ten, do free the tight end, Stabach straight backs, and a screen pass caught by Newhouse, tackled for a loss on the play.
Carol Luce, the linebacker, stayed right with him and did not miss, he got the help he needed from Joe Ehrman.
Boy did he respond greatly on that play, it was a quick screen, and Luce, number 58, read it all the way, came up on the run, made a perfect tackle, and no gain on the play.
And the ball game comes Lloyd Mumpert, the ten year veteran, he is the extra defensive back for Baltimore, on third down and 12 from the Baltimore 35.
Ed Simonini is out, shipped into the shotgun, Stabach stands at his 40 yard line and waits for the snap, gets it dropped back to the ball, again pressure, he is hit, gets away, he throws and it is intercepted.
The ball is at the 15 and dead there, and Norm Thompson gets his second of the night.
The pressure was avoided by Stabach, and he stepped up into the pocket through it, and the pass was intercepted by Thompson, as Mumpert was flitzing out of the defensive secondary.
Yes he was, number 42 was flitzing on the play, I don't think they anticipated it, they didn't pick it up, and as a result he made him throw the ball before he was ready, and of course it was an interception.
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We have 12-01 remaining in the half, and we just witnessed the third Dallas turnover of the evening, two interceptions and a fumble.
I'm corrected earlier, I was talking about a miss by Tony Linnard on a field goal attempt, it was 37 yards, not 27, and then the field goal miss by 17 was of 19 yards, and now the Colts get it at their own 15, first down.
Another interesting stat, Baltimore is without a first down so far in the contest.
Mike Kirkman at the quarterback spot, and as Marshall Johnson in the backfield with him, along with McAuley, when Doughty goes in motion here, the pitch to McAuley couldn't get the block in time.
Well, there was nothing there for him.
Couldn't clear out of the line, whoever had the pull and get out in front of him just wasn't there.
No, it looked like they put up a fence as he tried to get outside, and interesting enough, there was a first time in this game that Baltimore has tried to run anything other than something inside between the tackles.
They tried to get outside, but they didn't succeed in getting any kind of a sizable game.
Well, remind you that the Colts are playing without Bert Jones, Bill Troup is available, but Mike Kirkland is the quarterback and has been all evening.
When Doughty planks to the right, Roger Carr splits left, and on second down and nine, the Cowboys show the Blitz play it straight, Roosevelt Leakes gets on a yard or two over the left side, just for a few, got two.
They're playing a little stunting game as Pugh came from the left side to the right, and he wrapped up Roosevelt Leakes.
The other interesting thing, they were in the flex that time, and the defensive end, Harvey Martin, number 79, was off the line of scrimmage, and this is where they like to run, they like to get a good push with their left tackle, Wade Griffin on Harvey Martin, but they didn't do it that time, and of course, it didn't make any kind of yardage.
Balls at the 18 yard line of the Colts, Randy Hughes and Mark Washington are both in there as extra defensive backs.
Kirkland on third down and seven is back to throw, looks to the right, a scrim pass, and it's gonna go for a first down.
Macaulay caught it, a flag is down, so is Macaulay across the 30 yard line.
Charlie Waters made the tackle, and evidently there was some kind of an infraction back in the backfield, and it's going to be against Baltimore.
That's gonna nullify their first, first down of the night.
Yes, that was a quick screen to the right side, and Tom Henderson evidently was penalized, was blocked improperly on the play, and he brought it to the attention of the official, however he saw it anyhow, and there's a penalty on the play.
And we'll pick up the call from the referee, Jim Tunney, after he sets the ball and marks off the yardage against Baltimore.
We'll put the ball back at the nine yard line of the Colts.
Illegal use of the hands, offense number 75 during the run, half the distance is a goal line, third down still.
George Coons of the Baltimore Colts was caught holding back there as he was pass blocking on the spray in which went but then was nullified, and so it is third down and 15 from the Baltimore 10.
Hughes and Washington stay in there as extra defensive backs.
Marshall Johnson's in the backfield for Baltimore.
Ian Don McCauley, the give to McCauley over the left side, gets across the 15 to the 20, not enough for a first down.
Tackle at the 21, like Cliff Harris, and the Colts will have to kick it away.
Another punch coming up by David Lee.
10-21 remaining in the first half.
And Butch Johnson will be back to try to handle this pump. He stands on his 40.
They're leaving busy this evening. Yes, he has. They're doing a lot of work on their specialty teams tonight, especially their punting game, but they're still in this game.
Randy Hughes almost got to the pot. It's kicked away to put Johnson. He's corralled at the 45 but slides forward near midfield before he was tackled by Tim Baylor, a defensive back who got down there to put the final stop on the play.
Randy Hughes came within an inch of blocking the David Lee pun. 9.57 left in the half, a timeout on the field with a score.
Dallas nothing, Baltimore nothing.
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He has a leg. He really has except that he hasn't disciplined himself well enough yet to be able to keep his head down and kick the big kicks.
Balls in the midfield for the Dallas Cowboys. First and 10. They shift out of the eye into the pro set, back into the eye.
The Colts shift on defense, motion by Drew Pearson. And Stompach back to throw on first down to the sideline and it is caught.
Tony Hill, a boy from McRae, 35-30. 10-15, 10-5. He's back with the goal line.
Kyle Blackwood caught up with Tony Hill. It'll be first and goal for the Cowboys on a stunning first down play and finally running by Tony Hill.
That was a great play by Tony Hill and the thing that happened really was the fact that Doug Nettled, the right corner, played him so soft he's concerned about his deep speed that they threw in front of him and then he wasn't in a good position to make the tackle.
He ran back to the inside of the field and now the ball's in a one yard line. But it was a great run, a great reception by Tony Hill, number 80.
Doug Denison is in the backfield as they run with a full house backfield. Two tight ends and first and goal for the Cowboys and they give us the Denison. He's got a touchdown.
The first goal of the night. One yard out for Doug Denison. Oh, the youngster, comparatively, was favored with a call and he held on to it and got in from one yard away.
Now it's the Cowboys. First down the board, 6-0 with 8.57 remaining in the hand. Charlie Waters will hold it and Raphael Septian will try for the extra point.
Ball will have to travel 20 yards to make it 7-0. Waters gets it down. This kick is good. It's 7-0 in favor of the Dallas Cowboys.
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Well here we go after that 7-point lead for the Dallas Cowboys. They're going to be kicking off here with Raphael Septian. And as I mentioned, he's got a very strong leg. He's capable of kicking the ball deep into the end zone. It'll be interesting to see what he does.
He likes to kick on synthetic turf much, much better than he does on natural turf. He had a problem with that last year with the Los Angeles Rams, and I think that's why they kind of gave up on him. But I think that he feels much, much better and more comfortable on synthetic turf, which both kickers do.
Septian will do the kicking Joe Washington makes an appearance for the Baltimore Colts. He's back with Marshall Johnson and Don McCauley. Three deep men in the vicinity of the five-yard line with the Cowboys on top, seven to nothing.
Septian who wears number one trying to fill the shoes of Herrera for the Cowboys. You know he's made 20 commercials I think in Mexico and made a movie.
He's a popular man. His side fashion kick goes down to the one-yard line. It's taken one yard deep by Marshall Johnson. He's out to the 20, the 25, the 30, the 35, the 40 midfield, inside the 45 yard line of the Dallas Cowboys. And Septian who kicked the ball made the tackle.
Another illustration, you see, he made a great run, really a great run, but he had the ball in his right arm again, you see. And had he had it in the left arm away from pressure, he could have used it to ward off Septian and might have gone all the way.
But it's a great illustration of how important it is for the young backs and young people to carry the ball away from pressure along the sideline.
Marshall Johnson really did a job showing his speed. He's a third year man from Houston, 6'1", and 195 pounds. He flew down to the Dallas 44 yard line and the Colts have a chance to move the ball.
Glenn Doughty is wide along with Roger Carr. McCauley and Leakes are in the backfield. Back to throw as Kirk Moneys passes incomplete. Tended for Doughty on a slanted pattern and he was covered by Benny Barnes on the corner.
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Dallas guests right on that last play. They double the outside receiver. Didi Lewis, Lewis went over to double cover. Roger Carr on the split inside. They rotated to the strong side. And I'm surprised they threw the ball into coverage.
Doughty and Carr are the wide receivers once again. Mike Kirkman on second down has Doughty in motion. He tosses it to McCauley. McCauley gets a block, moves down to the 40, moves down to the 37 yard line.
And it'll be third down and about four coming up. Bob Bruning made that tackle. Let's pause five seconds for stations to identify themselves on the CBS Radio Network.
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Third and fourth for Baltimore. They've moved to the 37 yard line of the Cowboys and they have Marshall Johnson in there as the setback.
Glenn Doughty, number 35, made a fine block above the waist on Tom Henderson and that's why that play was successful.
And McCauley took it to the 37 yard line. Kirkman now has to move four yards trying to get the first first down of the night for the Cowboys. As McCauley is the lone setback, he's back to throw.
Kirkman passes all over the head of the would-be receiver, Marshall Johnson. So it's fourth down for Baltimore and Kirkman has not been on target.
You know, the only thing they've done so far, really, from a passing standpoint is try to throw the ball inside on Slantz. They haven't really tried to throw the ball outside at all.
The defensive backs of the Dallas Cowboys are playing somewhat loose and we can look for, as we go along the game, maybe the possibility of throwing outside instead of just throwing inside, which is all they've done so far from a double-wing formation.
And Mike Kirkman, the quarterback of the Colts, is one for four for one yard. Here's the punt by David Lee, angling for the sideline. He's got a pretty good chance of getting it. It's out of bounds at the two-yard line of the Dallas Cowboys.
David Lee from Shreveport, Louisiana puts the Cowboys back to their own goal.
You know, Jack Buck, it's interesting to know here that he's kicking, he's a right-footed kicker and he's kicking the ball to his left, which is very important to do because if you kick the ball to your left when you're a right-footed kicker and you squib the ball,
it's sliding off the right side of your foot, it's going to go right down the middle and you still got a chance to make a big play.
If you try to kick it to the right, you shank it, it's out of bounds after going about ten yards.
Exactly right. So it's very intelligent for him to try to kick the ball to his left and he did a great job in that situation.
If you kick the ball right outside the Dallas one-yard line, we'll call it the one, 740 left in the half, and the Cowboys have turned the ball over three times tonight.
Canilla forward and a poor ball handling down here. Newhouse and Dorsett are in the backfield with Dorsett on a wing.
They shift into a pro set. Stubbock is a quarterback. And on first down, he's back to throw. He throws it out to Dorsett. He's at the five. He is tackled at the ten-yard line.
A play-action pass, very well-conceived play, taking inside and then throwing into the left flat a very high percentage play, the ball being thrown to Tony Dorsett.
And the tackle was made by Duck Nettles, and that takes the Cowboys out to the point where they have some operating room from their ten-yard line.
It is second down and one. And Pearson goes to the right. Tony Hill to the left.
I wouldn't be a bit surprised to see him throw again on this second and one situation from this part of the field.
Baltimore with that good rush of theirs. Here's a handoff and a loss on the play.
And good defensive play by Mike Barnes once again. And he has distinguished himself tonight as he got in a wrapped-up Dorsett as soon as he got the ball.
That defensive line of the Baltimore Colts is very impressive. John Dutton, Joe Orman, Mike Barnes and Fred Cook, they're big and they're strong, and they really make you earn every inch that you get.
Incidentally, Roger Stabach is 7-13 for 102 yards. No touchdowns and two interceptions.
Stan White is out of the lineup at that right linebacker spot, and Sanders Schubert is in there replacing him.
For Baltimore, we'll learn more about the injury here as third down and four. And Stabach throws, and this one is caught at the 15.
It is a first down. Dorsett breaks the tackle, breaks loose down the sideline, cuts it back at the 45. He's going to score a touchdown. He's to the 40. He's got a big escort.
He gets outside to the sideline. He cruises into the end zone, and Dallas has their second score of the night. Dorsett this time.
Boy, you talk about an incredible play. Stabach back to throw. See what happens. The ball is deflected by Simonini, number 56.
Burry alert. There's a great illustration of the tipping drill. The ball was tipped, but he maintained concentration, followed it all the way.
Even though it was tipped by Simonini, he was able to take possession and go all the way for the touchdown. And of course, he's a great athlete.
At that kind of speed, he can gin any time he gets his hands on a football. The linebacker we had just mentioned,
Sanders-Shiver, missed the tackle at about the 30-yard line, and after that it was goodbye.
Except the end tries to make it 14-0. The ball is spotted by Waters. It is good, and it's 14-0. 6-0-5 remaining in the hand.
A pause in the action with the score, Dallas 14. All of them are nothing, and let's take time out.
The day is done. It's time to let it go. It's the moment to unwind.
So just say, oh, but this day by day, and for the King of Beings, can settle back and please yourself.
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Tony Dorsett, the great performer from the University of Pittsburgh, illustrated his fantastic speed and overall athletic ability.
That was a remarkable play, and he stretched the short game ready into a 91-yard touchdown reception.
It was a song that's second-longest play in the history of the Dallas Cowboys.
Well, it seems strange not to see Howard Stevens back there for Baltimore, but instead it's Joe Washington, Marshall Johnson, and Don McCauley waiting for the kickoff.
And as the Colts trail about the score of 14-0, 6-0-5 left in the half.
Septien pumps it, and this ball will be taken by McCauley on the 5.
He's to the 10 going down the left side of the 15-20 to the 25-yard line and down short of the 30.
Mike Kirkman and Copper will have a long way to go.
The Dallas tackle was made by Jay Salty along with Guy Brown, tied in and linebacker, respectively.
Interesting on kickoff returns, normally every team has three returns, a right, a middle, and a left return,
and sometimes you might call for a right return, but if the ball is kicked to the left, you'd automatically bring it back on the left side.
I thought that time the play was designed initially to go off the middle, but the ball was kicked to the left, and he ran it to the left very wisely.
The ball is at the 29-yard line.
Glenn Dowdy is to the right.
Roger Carter to the left, first down for the Colts.
Kirkman a quarter bank gives to McCauley over the left side, and he got only a couple.
His forward progress might have given him three yards, but the Colts are very conservative at this point.
Thanks, Grant.
Yeah, they have to do something.
They have to try to make something happen, being behind on the ball game by 14 points.
Interesting stat which confirms what you just said, Jack.
Dallas has 250 yards of total offense, Baltimore 34.
And they're still looking for their first down, it's second down and seven from the Colts 32-yard line.
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Dowdy and Carter both to the left, and Kirkman is back to throw.
He throws a screen, and it is incomplete, a perfectly timed tackle evidently by the linebacker Thomas Henderson.
Although I thought he got there a little too quickly, Hank.
No, I thought he made it a great play, Jack.
He really did.
He anticipated it and read it real well.
It was close, but I thought he made a great play on that ball.
Oh, the screen pass attempt is to no avail, and it's third down and seven for the Colts.
Thomas Henderson overcame about with hepatitis during the summertime back in the lineup.
Jeff Drowfew is out, Dave Stahl is in there, Randy Hughes and Mark Washington extra defensive backs for the Cowboys.
When Dowdy goes right, Roger Carr splits left.
They're tied in as Mac Austin.
From the snap, Kirkman rolls left to avoid the pressure, runs with the ball, gets the first down to the 40, to the 45,
and scoots out of bounds at the 46-yard line of Baltimore.
They're first, first down of the night.
Kirkman, you know, I didn't know whether he could run very well, and talking to Bert Jones before the game,
he indicated that he was a great athlete, and he ran extremely well.
There was an illustration of how well he did run.
Actually, the back went one way.
He was rolling out to his left with the anticipation of throwing a ball, it looked like, but everybody dropped off.
They were concerned with coverage, and he ran the ball for the first down.
The thing about putting those extra defensive backs in there, they all want that football, Hank,
and they don't like to force the run.
They want to sit back, lay back, and hope that somebody throws the ball into their arms.
Yes, exactly right.
The ball is at the ball of over 46.
Car left, dowdy right, first down.
Kirkman with leaks and McCauley in the backfield, and a whistle.
Perhaps too much time, delay of game again.
You know what it is, that'll make it first in 15, and that's another problem with the inexperienced quarterback.
Well, I think they're trying to read the defense, and I think anytime they see a defensive tackle or defensive end
playing loose off the ball, that time Harvey Martin was playing soft,
and evidently he tried to change the play at the line of scrimmage, took too much time,
and as a result, there was a penalty.
The ball is back to the 41-yard line of the Colts, first in 15.
Jim Tunney is the referee here tonight,
and they haven't had any extreme problems in running this game.
You know, I'm surprised that they haven't tried to throw the ball on first down more than they have.
They've been very, very conservative, and they haven't done that at all.
Well, they have a chance now on first in 15, and Kirkman dropped straight back, and he is smothered.
Maybe that's why they haven't tried to throw the ball more.
They were really run over by D.D. Lewis and Thomas Henderson.
Both linebackers got through there.
It was a blitz, and they just didn't pick him up, it's very obvious.
But it's tough to throw against Dallas when they expect you to throw.
You have to throw against them when they think possibly you're going to run, or pass, or screen,
but when they know that you're going to throw the ball and anticipate it from a yardage standpoint, down a distance,
they're going to flap those ears back and come after you, and boy, they make it tough.
When they have Barnes and Kyle and Harrison Waters in there,
they're going to pour a blitz a little bit more than some other clubs,
and now the Cowboys put Randy Hughes and Mark Washington in his extra defensive backs,
and Dave Stahls will try to apply pressure up front in the second down and 24,
and here is the running play, and it moves across the 35-yard line,
and Roosevelt Leakes was really upended at that point.
He was hit hard by Harvey Martin and Cliff Harris.
Didn't he get a shot there by Harvey Martin, number 79?
Boy, he really crushed him.
Now it is third down and 18 from the Baltimore 38.
Kirkman's going to have to pull something out of the hat here with 4-0-5 remaining in the hat.
Dallas leading Baltimore, 14-0-3.
Thomas Henderson is a flanker.
Carr and Dowdy are both wide.
Better protection for Kirkman now, and he's tackled again for another loss on the plays.
He couldn't clear the pocket and spot a receiver.
Dave Stahls, who was just into the game, got two of them along with Larry Cole.
And the defensive backs really did a good job of covering the receivers.
There wasn't anybody open.
He just didn't have a chance to throw the ball because everybody was covered,
plus the fact that he got the leakage inside.
Well, it's punting time again for David Lee, who's been the busiest person here tonight.
And Butch Johnson stands back at his 25-yard line, waiting for this putt.
The pressure by the Cowboys, Lee gets it away.
It's a dandy kick with good hang time.
Drives Johnson back to the 19.
East to the 20, back to the 25, 26, and that's all.
Baltimore with good coverage and a fine button.
Michael Zdowski, who is a second-year man now from Virginia, was downfield to make the tackle.
Good hang time that time, Jack.
And for 4.3, he put it up there pretty good.
And a 57-yard punt for David Lee.
And a six-yard return for Butch Johnson out to the Dallas 25.
The Cowboys going from our right to our left here in the second quarter, 325 left in the half.
Dallas leading 14-0.
Dwight Harrison is in the defensive backfield now for Baltimore.
And Stobach on first down gives it to Dorsett.
He blinks it over to 30, 35, 40 down the sideline midfield, down to the 40, 35, and out of bounds.
Out of bounds at the 28.
And Dwight Harrison finally stopped it.
Dorsett blew it open again.
Well, he is something.
They use that from the eye formation again.
That play was supposed to be.
One of the high-diddle-dills right up the middle, but he saw the opening on the right side.
And that's the great thing about the eye formation.
You see, you can start with it, and you can go anyway.
Especially with Dorsett's speed, he broke it to the outside, and boy, he's lightning.
He went 25, 35, 47 yards on that run.
Dorsett comes out for a breather, and Doug Tennyson replaces him.
First down is the 28-yard line up all the more.
He looks like he was put together by Lockheed, doesn't he?
Boy, he can move.
Here's the first down for the Cowboys.
And Stobach is back to throw.
He is rushed.
He throws a screen.
It is caught by Billy Joe Dupree, the tight end, and he gained three, and he was crunched down by Joe Ehrman.
You know, that time they flooded the back to the weak side.
They had three people out in the pattern to the weak side to bring the middle linebacker to that side
and threw a screen to their tight end.
Billy Joe Dupree didn't make much yardage on a play.
They responded well to that screen.
John Dutton put some pressure on Roger Stobach on the play.
2.50 remaining in the half, and it's evident that the Cowboys, Stobach, wants another score
from the play calling that we are witnessing.
The ball is to the 25 of Baltimore, second down and seven.
Stobach is back to throw after faking the handoff to Tennyson.
Moves up into the pocket, and he throws it to Tony Hill,
and it is complete with a diving catch inside the 20, very close to a first down, short by about a foot.
And it will be third down and about a yard with Lyle Blackwood making the defensive play.
Play action passed. They simulated the sweep action, faking the ball to Tennyson.
It looked like he might run to the left, threw the ball back to Tony Hill, and a great, great catch.
Short of the first down, however.
Part of the campaign last year, there was no doubt that Stobach was struggling with a tender throwing arm,
but he is throwing like a fastball pitcher now.
Oh, and you know the other thing, they've got so many plays and so much variety in their arsenal of offensive weapons
that when they get in this with so many things and they really keep you off balance and keep you guessing,
and boy, they're tough to stop in this kind of a situation, especially when they got you down 14 to nothing.
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Now with all that's happened, I'm pretty sure that the Colts would be happy to get into the locker room at a half-time,
trailing only 14 to nothing, but that's not the way Dallas wants it.
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Third and less than a yard for the Cowboys, inside the 20-year Baltimore,
star-blocked a new house and a first down to the 15, down to the 10, and inside the 10, first and goal Cowboys.
Doug Nettles and Lionel Blackwood tried all they could, but it was tough to bring Robert Newhouse to the turf, first and goal from the 9.
They ran a play against the trend of that formation. Normally when they're in that formation, they like to run to the left that time.
They were in a strong, they were in a formation that indicated they might run to the left, but they gave it to Robert Newhouse in a straight-ahead shot over the right side.
Andy Fedrick did a great job along with Tom Rafferty, and he picked up a nice game.
Tony Hill and Drew Pearson are in as wide receivers with Newhouse and Dorsett in the I formation, Dorsett again over the middle,
and he gets to the 7, broke one tackle, but was dropped soon thereafter. He picked up a couple.
Bruce Laird finally got him along with Fred Cook. It'll be second down, and goal from the Baltimore 7 with 1-10 remaining in the half.
Time called by the Cowboys. Stabock to the sideline to try to determine how he's going to try to negotiate the final eight yards for the score.
You know, one thing about the I formation against a team that runs a 4-3 defense like the Baltimore Colts are running,
Simonini is a very active middle linebacker. He doesn't have great size, but he's very active and reads and reacts extremely well,
and as a result they're making sure they block him. They get him going one way and cut behind him,
and of course Tony Dorsett has such fantastic reactions and quickness, and he reads that block and goes to the opposite side away from him,
and he's made some big plays.
Dorsett has piled up some yardage. The halftime statistic will be very interesting.
A lot of people continue to pick on Simonini. He continues to hold his own in there, though. He's a tough customer, Anxtram.
Well, he is. There's no question about that, but I think the point that I'm trying to make here, Jack, is the fact that that's why so many teams
at the National Football League are using the 3-4 defense or the Oklahoma defense because they get the extra linebacker,
and they're more apt to be able to pick up that flow because of the extra linebacker on the inside.
Cowboys have been very big in winning their opening games, and last year they started off with a string of 11 victories in a row.
Well, Baltimore did the same. They won 7 in a row, got off to a flying start.
It's second in goal from... Well, they have it marked at the 7-yard line for the Cowboys. They're in a very tight formation with Newhouse and Stubbock.
And Dorsett, Stubbock's back to throw into the end zone. Touchdown! That was easy.
Billy Joe the free caught that rifle shot for 7 yards and a touchdown to make it far into nothing.
And they have Simonini trying to cover him on that play, Jack. I don't know what happened, what the coverage was,
the guy he licked with Simonini, it looked like he was a little concerned as to whether that was supposed to be his coverage.
But anyway, it was a mismatch, a touchdown, and now they're lining up to kick the extra point.
If Septien makes it, it'll be a 21-0 game going in before the half.
We have 1-06 remaining in the half.
Simonini was trying to cover him, and Billy Joe the free got field position on him, and Stubbock didn't miss him.
The extra point attempt is good. That makes it 21-0 with 1-06 remaining in the half.
Well, we had a scoreless first quarter, but it's long wide open now, and who knows what the second half is going to be like.
Yeah, if they keep up like this, and Baltimore has to be a little discouraged because they played well enough defensively,
and I'm sure that they're disappointed that they had opportunities earning the game to get some points on the board,
but it looks like it's going to be a long, long evening for the Baltimore Colts.
Incidentally, Jack Buck, you'll be interested to know that the Dallas Cowboys last year averaged 24.6 points per game,
and the Baltimore Colts averaged 21.1.
So these teams, when both teams are healthy, are very much alike from an offensive viewpoint.
Last drive went for 74 yards, 6 plays with Dorsett carrying for 47 of them in 2 minutes and 19 seconds.
Marshall Johnson, Joe Washington, and Don McCauley are back, waiting for this kickoff from the 70 end of the Cowboys.
The Cowboys burned earlier on a kickoff return. We'll be bearing down on this one.
There's the kick high in the air, and it's taken by Johnson on the 8-yard line.
He's to the 15-20, trying to go down the left sideline.
Hurdles the man, gets out to the 30, and he is finally driven back after his forward progress was to the Baltimore 29.
And Larry Bethea was the tackler.
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Interesting the ball care at that time, Hurdle, this is a new rule this year that you can do that and not be penalized.
Mike Kirkland at the quarterback spot, trying to make good use of the final minute of this first half, is back to throw.
Screens it out here in complete to Marshall Johnson.
Ball was overthrown to Marshall Johnson, and Kirkland is not having a good night at all putting the ball in the air.
And what it does more than anything, at least to me, Hank Scram, is make you appreciate the ability of a Bert Jones and other Roger Stobach and the others who can get the ball to the receiver.
Not only the athletic ability and the artistic skill, but in conjunction with that, the great leader qualities that he has.
You know, the other thing that's interesting tonight is the fact that the Dallas Cowboys are really doing a good job of guessing on first down,
they're moving linebackers to help double cover on the outside, and that too is disrupting the quarterback.
And his opportunity to get the ball to the receiver because you're a little concerned that time with D.D. Lewis out on the flat number 50.
On second down and 10 here is a pass caught beautifully by Marshall Johnson for a first down in midfield.
Marshall Johnson hauled one in with 47 seconds left in the half.
A finally thrown pass by Kirkland, timeout called by Baltimore, stopping the clock with 44 seconds remaining before the intermission,
and Kirkland to the sideline to talk it over with Ted Marchibroda.
He threw that nicely. You know, anytime that you throw inside, it's also, it's very important, number one, that you have good range and good size.
And Kirkland has a 6-1, he's not overly tall, but he's 6-1 and weighs about 205 pounds, but he whistled that ball in good shape right into the scene.
He threw it inside, it was a big play and a nice reception and a first down.
And that despite the extra defensive backs, Hughes and Washington, and we're both in there,
each club has two timeouts remaining here in the first half and the Colts now have a first down at midfield.
But the score is the Cowboys 21 and Baltimore nothing.
Tony Dorsett got in for a touchdown after Doug Denison scored the first one and Billy Joe Dupree had the honor of scoring the third Dallas touchdown of the season.
Baltimore Colts will be back at home next Sunday and they take on Miami.
And even then Hank, it doesn't appear that Bert Jones is going to be ready.
No, I don't think so. I think it's probably reasonable to assume that he will miss anywhere from three to four games and he'd be lucky to get back in time, maybe for the fifth one.
I don't know.
Randy White with them brings them down with one hand, but again a four yards in the play.
Still in bounds, the clock running, 30 seconds remaining in the half. Timeout now.
Baltimore, 29 seconds remaining in the half and the Colts have one timeout left.
They're good up front. Hank, when you see the Cowboys able to put people like Larry Cole and their number one draft pick, Larry Bethea, in there along with Dave Stahls.
They're not only good, but they have depth.
Larry Bethea, incidentally, was the most valuable player of the Big Ten last year, the first defense player to win that honor since Dick Butka stood it in 1960, which is an indication of the kind of a player he is.
And the Cowboys can't afford the luxury of moving those rookies along very slowly. Bethea, for example, is working behind Harvey Martin. Martin doesn't figure to give up that job right away.
No, no, that's going to be a tough task. You know, incidentally, on that last play, Marshall Johnson already was wide open.
Kirkland had never even looked over in that direction, but he had a big margin of a cushion, and he could have taken advantage of it that last time, but he didn't see him at all.
And let's see this time if he comes back and maybe tries to get the ball to him.
He ran for three down to the 46th yard line of the Cowboys, handed the second down and seven as a result.
Now he goes to the left, cars to the right, and Marshall Johnson is also a wide receiver. Here the pressure is on, and running out of the pocket is Kirkland but Tackleball lost back.
Hadn't it peeled by Randy White who got him for the second time in a row.
And Thomas Henderson is slow getting up. Linebacker for the Cowboys.
Buddy appears to be alright. It's going to be third down and ten with 24 seconds remaining here in the half.
The clock has stopped because of the sack of the quarterback. Now it's running now with 20 seconds left in the half.
Roger Carr was open that last time, but he couldn't get the ball to him. He had a good inside move on Aaron Kyle, number 25, but he just couldn't get the ball up in the air.
And I think that's what's been done in Carr, very capable of getting out into the open. Here is Kirkland in trouble and wrestled down by Harvey Martin and the people love it here.
Another loss on the play, back to the 40 yard line and he appears to be hurt. Kirkland is slow pulling himself together.
Two seconds remaining in the half. Kirkland is up now. He's a tough kid. He took a wallop from Harvey Martin.
Two seconds remaining in the half and after the quarterback's sack, they stopped the clock. They'll probably start it. The half will run out in all probability without an additional play.
Kirkland went to the sideline, came back in. Colts have one time on left. I don't think they're anxious to try anything. They're trailing 21 to nothing.
The clock will run out right here and there's the gun ending the first half while the Cowboys fans have to be happy after a four scoreless first quarter.
Here we go with the stats of the first half. Dallas of course winning 21-0 at halftime. Once again, the scored halftime from Dallas, Texas. Dallas Cowboys 21, Baltimore Coast, nothing.
It'll be interesting to see what happens in the second half. This young Baltimore Colts team I'm sure is very depressed about the fact that they're down 21 to nothing.
The defensive unit especially, they have not played that badly but it's very disappointing and very discouraging when you're a good defensive team and you know that you're playing consistently well
but you know that the offense because of the problems that exist with the Baltimore Colts will not have much of an opportunity to move the ball and score points.
That doesn't necessarily mean that they won't be able to do that in the second half. Anything can happen. There's a possibility that there would be some big plays in the second half.
The young quarterback, Mike Kirkland hasn't had much of an opportunity to do much because of the severe rush from the Dallas Cowboys.
And one of the things that's most difficult to do when you play against Dallas and especially when they know you're going to pump the ball up and throw it, boy, it's hard to get pass protection.
They put so much pressure on you and make it tough. It'll be interesting to see how they try to attack this situation and solve the problem but I think they're going to have to do some running early in the game in the second half
and then do more throwing especially on first down.
We are at the Texas stadium here in Irving, Texas and the score is 21 to nothing.
And we're anxious to see what happens with the final 30 minutes of football here between the Baltimore Colts and the Dallas Cowboys.
Neither team has come back yet after the intermission.
Let's check the baseball activity of today to mix a little baseball and football and have a look lightly at the scores and at the standings as well.
As Pittsburgh took a double header from the Mets, 7-4 and 7-0. They picked up a full game on Philadelphia.
Philadelphia split a double header with the Cardinals. The Fills lost 3-2 and then they won 10-2 and so the Pirates are now only one game out of first place in the National League East and the Cubs were dumped twice today, 5-3 and 6-5 and so they're now 4-1-1-2 behind.
And in the Western division, the night action causes us to see the standing still. The Dodgers won ahead of the Giants in Cincinnati 6-1-1-2 behind Los Angeles.
In the American League, the Yankees split a double header winning 9-1 over Detroit and then losing by the score of 5-4.
But that's a pickup of a half game for the Yankees as Baltimore knocked off Boston by the score of 5-3 and the Yankees are only 5 games out.
Milwaukee split a double header and so they pick up a half a game and the Brewers are 7 games off the pace.
And we do not have scores of other games that would change the standings in the West where Kansas City was a game ahead of California.
Well, Hank Stram, you've been in a spot that Ted Marchabrota has been in frequently, fortunately not too many times.
What in the world do you think they're going to do to try to change it around?
Well, the one thing, you know, they can't, they can't panic and they can't lose sight of the fact that they still have a chance even though it looks like it's going to be extremely tough.
They just can't give up in the second half. They have to go out in the second half do everything they possibly can.
That's what the team has to realize. They have to come up somehow, some way with some big plays.
They have to recapture the poor's incompetence that they might have had going into the ball game about what they could do.
But it's going to be difficult. One thing is going to be very tough to do, which I mentioned.
Big winners, as I mentioned earlier, you know, the last three years they've been 10, 4, 11, 3, 10, 4. They haven't done that by accident.
They're not going to panic. They're going to do what they think they can do best.
And they're going to have to run the ball some early and try to get in the situation where they can do a better job of throwing play action passes sometimes in early downs.
Second down and nine. Four of the Colts from their own 27.
Kirkman is back to throw out of the pocket. He throws and Roosevelt Leakes has it fatted away by the linebacker, Thomas Henderson.
Henderson used his superior size to get over the top.
Boy, he's a great athlete. He responds so well. Terrific agility. And he made a great play on that pass pattern.
Leakes had him beaten and Kirkman threw quite a pass. Randy Hughes and Mark Washington check in defensively for the Cowboys.
And Larry Cole goes in to try to apply the rush.
As the Cowboys show a four man front and take out one of the linebackers, two of the linebackers.
Third down and nine for Kirkman. Kirkman rolls, left, stays out of trouble, throws it over the middle.
It is caught and it's a first down for the Baltimore Colts.
And Ron Lee halted in coming out of the backfield and moved across his 40 yard line to the 41.
It was a semi-roll and he threw the ball right on the numbers to Lee who made the catch and made the first down. A big third down play.
That's the way you had Lenny Dawson rolling out of the pocket and throwing.
Well, it's so important. I think if you throw from the same spot consistently, there's no way in the world that you're going to be able to get the ball off, especially against a team like the Dallas Cowboys.
You can move the pocket while you've got a chance.
How do you write? Cars to the left and here is a give to Roosevelt Leakes. He cut it back up the inside after starting to his right and gained two or three.
And he was stopped at the 44 yard line of the Colts. A three yard game, second down and seven.
Twenty-one to nothing. The Cowboys are leading. We're early on in the third quarter here at Texas Stadium in Irving, Texas.
And next Monday night we'll be in Minneapolis where the Denver Broncos will be playing.
It's a second down play for Mike Kirkland.
And here are the flags all over the place on a busted play. Down goes Kirkland.
Has everybody pulled in the center evidently with the snap count? Yes, it doesn't, but nothing makes the team look worse than having that kind of a play happen.
I think possibly it might have been a change at the line of scrimmage.
The Dallas team is guessing with their linebackers and trying to take away patterns on passing situations.
And as a result, I think sometimes it's confused Kirkland and I think possibly that might have happened on that last play.
Here is an offside and it is declined as Kirkland went down at his 39 yard line.
That is now the new line of scrimmage and it is third down in 11.
The Cowboys put in Washington and Hughes to help with the pass defense.
Dave Stahl's up front to apply the pressure and it looks like they're going to blitz. At least they show it.
And they're coming. And Kirkland fires it out here to Ron Lee. No screen is there and he is really racked up at his 38 yard line.
And there will be a loss on the play at that time.
Yeah, Cliff Harris came up and read it well, was in on the tackle, which you got to throw the ball up field.
It's difficult to play catch up football when you throw the ball sideways. You got to get it up field some way.
When Randy Hughes comes in, he frequently will blitz as he was doing that time and he chased Kirkland away out of the pocket.
Fourth down now and Dave Lee is in the putt.
And Butch Johnson stands at his own 20 waiting to give Dallas the ball for the first time in the second half.
Though the Colts kept it for only two and a half minutes.
This line drive putt is taken on the 28 yard line to the 30-35-40 yard line for Butch Johnson.
And down at the 42 yard line, the Cowboys are in a great spot to run.
Aaron Kyle made a good block as Johnson took it back to his own 42.
12-28 remaining in the third quarter. And with the score of the Dallas Cowboys 21, Baltimore nothing. Let's take that up.
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Let's do this. Let's do this.
Here we go with Dallas possession, first in 10. The ball is on about the 42 yard line.
Dallas leading.
Wilson, Hank Strandler.
21 and a half.
There are philosophy here in the second half.
They're not going to change any, I tell you. They're going to throw every play they have in the book.
Every formation. They do that so well.
The interesting thing, you know, you see the Cowboys shift and create formations a lot.
You wonder how the backs get to where they're going.
The basic rule of thumb is really if they go on a long count, they want the back to double shift on their own.
They don't care where they line up prematurely.
They just want to make sure they're in the right spot when the ball is snapped.
And this is how they get there. They do it on their own.
The ball is at the 42 yard line at Newhouse and the door is setter in the backfield with Roger Stabach.
And he hands off to Newhouse. The inside hand off. He moves out to the 45 and across near the 47 yard line.
And they pick up about five yards. Interest in the Nenity Gunner.
The interesting thing, they started the game with a counter play just like the one that we just saw with Bobby Newhouse.
And they started the second half with exactly the same play. They want to make sure that they control the middle linebacker and also the quick flow of the defensive line of the Ballamore Colts.
Drew Pearson comes to the left and Tony Hill is the wide receiver on the right side, second down in five from the 48 yard line for the Cowboys.
And Stabach gives it to Newhouse again. He's across midfield and trying to get the first down and he does manage to do it.
Fred Cook and Lyle Pleckwood couldn't take him down. Newhouse kept struggling and he got a first down for the Cowboys.
It didn't take them long to move the necessary ten yards.
The Cowboys are playing Fitzgerald at Setter. Rafferty and Scott at the guard, Dunnevin and Frederick at the tackle spot.
Billy Joe Dupree at the tight end. Tony Hill and Drew Pearson the wide receiver's door set in Newhouse and the backfield with Stabach.
Pearson Wright and Hill at first down at the 47 of Ballamore.
And the first down, give the door set, door set. Inside the 45 to 40, inside the 35 and tackled at the 31 yard line by the middle linebacker, Simon and E.
Door set is full speed tonight.
Pat Dunnevin, Herb Scott did a good job of blocking at the point of attack on the strong side there. And door set, you just can't explain how exciting he is because once he sees any kind of a seam, well, he really makes things happen.
They marked the ball down at the 30 yard line at Ballamore, a first down for the Cowboys. Looks like they can do most anything they want to do right now.
They like to play action in this situation, in this part of the field on first down. I don't know whether to do it now, but they like to do it. There you see Tony Hill going in the other side of the ball.
Hill is a flanker of the right and here's a give the new house. He went deep trying to get outside. A flag is thrown and he is down for a loss of a yard on the play.
A clip by Drew Pearson.
He was blackwood along with Dwight Harrison. Yeah, Drew Pearson that time on a crack back block was clipping on the play. Very obvious penalty. The timing of the play was bad and of course now it's a penalty.
Turnovers hurt the Cowboys in the first half. Nonetheless, they got the three TDs to put them on top. Not many penalties in this game, but this one will hurt Dallas.
You know, with all the rule changes, I think the officials so far and what I've seen have really done a great job. There hasn't been too many calls.
Let's listen to Jim Tunick. First of all, clipping, number 88 offense.
Drew Pearson with a crack back block and the clipping call moves the ball to the 48 yard line of Baltimore and makes it long yardage for Dallas. First down and 26.
Interesting. Jack Buck first penalty for the Dallas Cowboys.
First down and long yardage. Dorset and Newhouse in the backfield. And on first down, Stobach back to throw. Wants to get it back in a hurry. He throws it up the middle. It's caught by...
It's caught by a Pearson coming back on a come back pattern and he picked up quite a few yards, moving it down to the 37 yard line of the Colts. Nettles tackled him along with Bruce Laird.
I don't like to throw the ball around Lyle Blackwood. He led the league in interceptions last year.
He had 10 interceptions last year and the remarkable thing about it was that Stan White, who is not playing now because of an injury, he had 7 interceptions last year as a linebacker.
It both liked the ball. It's second down and 15 now. Simon Iney is out and Lloyd Mumford goes in as an extra back for the Colts.
And they'll try to put the pressure on Stobach if indeed he is running. On second down, it's a running play. The Dorset, he moves inside the 35. It's taken down by Joe Ehrman. And it will be third down and 12 coming up.
That was another counter play. They try to get the middle linebacker, Simon Iney, moving in one direction and run behind him. They recovered nicely on the play and it was just a minor, a mild game on that running action.
On third and 12, Ray Oldham checks in and the linebacker goes out.
Andrew Shiver comes out for Baltimore and Preston Pearson is in the backfield now for the Cowboys.
They'll go in there as spread formation. They usually will go into the spread formation on third and four or more. They're in the spread formation.
The triple wing on one side, a double wing on the other, which means there's three people on one side and two on the other.
And Flag stops the play before Stobach can do anything. They might have had an illegal formation that time, Hank.
It's procedure against the Cowboys. That'll make a third down in the 17. And Baltimore has no choice. They have to accept the penalty here.
Let's listen to Jim Tunney once more.
Call start, number 71, offense. Still third.
The Frederick was called for being offside in the procedure call against the Cowboys. 8.50 left in the third quarter. No scoring in this period.
Cowboys on top 21 to nothing and they now have third and 17 from the Baltimore 38.
You know, in the spread formation, they're trying to isolate Preston Pearson on many situations and trying to get him on number 25 Oldham.
They did that in the past and it'd be interesting to see if they can do it again. He's in a different set this time. He's in blocking Preston Pearson is with Maxon Percussion.
Uh-oh. There's a pass to Pearson and he's in for the touchdown. Stobach throw it over the middle.
And Drew Pearson caught it inside the ten yard line between Neville and Harrison and failed in for the touchdown.
They had Maxon Percussion that time. Preston Pearson, who usually is out in the pattern.
They had an awful lot of room on the inside that time. There was too much of a cushion.
And the rest of history is obvious touchdown. Great completion from Roger Stobach to Drew Pearson, number 88.
It can happen with 8.43 remaining here in the third quarter. Charlie Waters will spot the ball and set the end.
We'll try to make it 28 to nothing, and he does. And the Cowboys put on quite a drive. March down the field seemed to do it.
At Will, despite the penalties, they went in to score. And a timeout on the field with a score of the Cowboys 28 and Ball to More Nothing.
Okay, here's the play. Y.D. will fall back with a ball. Biff will go to the side. Slambowsky will... Slambowsky, pay attention.
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Hey, guys, let's get back to the game.
Okay, guys, come back. Slambowsky, you're traded.
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Raphael, set the end. We'll kick it off and let's pause five seconds for stations to identify themselves on the CBS Radio Network.
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Three deep men for the Colts. They're Don McCauley, Marshall Johnson and Joe Washington.
8.43 remaining in the third quarter and it's the Cowboys now by four touchdowns.
This kick is high down to the three yard line.
It is taken by Marshall Johnson. He's quickly to the 20, goes outside to the 25, a flag is down, and Marshall Johnson goes down at his own 30 with Mike Hakeman making another downfield tackle.
And well Chuck DeFenle, it usually has to do with clipping on those kick returns and the Colts are going way back as though they expected to be marched off against them.
Johnson is showing something, uh, indications that he's going to be a good kick return man for the Colts this year.
Yes, he is and I don't mean to be facetious about this. He's certainly got a lot of practice tonight.
Holding during the run back, number 71. First down.
I hate to keep bringing this up, but here again he's a fine young runner, but here again he's running to the left with a ball in his right arm.
That's when you're inviting trouble from the inside and providing teams to put you in a fumble situation.
A holding call sends the Colts back to their 16 yard line and that's what Mike Kirkman did not want.
And he fakes the handoff to Leakes. He is rushed by Jones. He passes out here to Doughty and Doughty caught the ball and moved up to the 25 yard line.
And that was a sidearm delivery by Kirkman.
I tell you, he did a great job at getting rid of that ball that time.
To talk Jones was in on him. He threw the ball sidearm and got the ball away in good shape.
It is close to a first down. Very well executed play.
A lot of poise on the part of this young quarterback, Mike Kirkman.
And a gain of nine yards on the play. It'll make it second down and short.
With 818 remaining in the third quarter.
You know, with the way the game's going, this would be a good time with second and shorter waist down to try to get something on top.
He has Leakes and Ron Lee in the backfield with him. Doughty's to the right.
Roger Carr is to the left side. He's been nullified here this evening.
Here's the running play by Ron Lee out of the tail back spot.
He got the first down, but then he was stopped at his track by Jeff Grobe.
Here again, the Cowboys are guessing remarkably well.
On the waist down, D.D. Lewis lined up tight inside.
And then right before the snap of the ball ran out to double cover Roger Carr.
And of course, that's always disconcerting, especially to a quarterback,
because even though you want to throw the ball, sometimes you're concerned when that happens,
whether you're going to get double or whether you're going to get single coverage, and it's difficult to make that decision sometimes.
The Colts are out to their own 27 with the first down.
They go strong to the left with the two wide receivers.
Mac Austin, the tight end is on the right side.
On first down, it's rolled out for Kirkland and he throws, and it is caught by Roger Carr for the first time this evening.
And he has dropped immediately, but at his own 42, Aaron Kyle got him, and it is a first down for the Colts.
And a pretty well thrown ball by Mike Kirkland.
Yes, he did. He threw it right at the numbers where you have to throw it.
It was a semi-roll again. He moved to his left.
He did that earlier in the game and completed the pass.
We probably should be seeing a little bit more of that as the game progresses.
Faded tenons here tonight is more than 64,000. 64,224.
The Colts at their own 48 with the first down.
He used a wing formation. Ron Lee carries the ball up the middle, got to the 45, and that's all.
He got a couple.
Lee, a young man from West Virginia, has the size to be a running back in the NFL at 64,234.
He'll get his chances with light El Mitchell gone now.
Yes, and he's a good receiver, they tell me, too. They like him very much.
He's a long legged, long strider, but he's got good power and he's supposedly a very outstanding athlete.
Second down and eighth.
Let's see if the Cowboys tee off.
They're not showing the Blitz right at the moment as Kirkland is under center and how they show the Blitz.
The Blitz is on. Kirkland from the pocket throws long.
Car's not there. Aaron Kyle is. He intercepts it and goes out of bounds.
Aaron Kyle turned around and there it was.
He evidently anticipated Roger Carr going outside.
Roger Carr went inside.
They have an altercation back upfield with some people tangling.
That's quickly broken up by the officials.
Randy, let's see.
Eggman is involved in that along with Ron Lee, Dee Dee Lewis.
Quite a few of them there are struggling.
Somebody, it looks like, might be thrown out of the football game.
I don't know who it is, but there's a possibility the way the official responded to what happened on the bottom of that file.
An interception by Aaron Kyle gives the Cowboys the ball.
No penalty flags have been thrown. Looks like they might just forget it.
Here's the official telling us it's a personal foul against both clubs.
And the ball will stay right where it is.
We have 6-0-2 remaining in the third quarter.
It looks like he might have got a little massage in the bottom of that file.
He was very upset about it and I thought maybe he was going to take somebody out of the game.
And now Ray is coming to the sideline. He might very well have ejected a couple of players.
Jim Tunney is going over to talk first of all to Ted Marchabrota and now to Tom Landry.
And we'll have to wait and see if indeed there was a disqualification.
I was watching the interception by Kyle and I didn't see the mixing it up back upfield
where Eggman or Kirkland had been standing and throwing the ball.
The Cowboys move now from their own 29 yard line.
With Stobach still in there.
Perhaps we'll see Danny White before this evening is over.
Motion by Tony Hill. Give to the tail back door set.
A little mix up in the backfield and Dorsett has dropped four laws.
He ran into his guard and you can't get away with that.
No you can and of course Dorsett is so fast and also so quick
that you better be able to move quickly as an offensive guard.
He's got number 68. He got caught in the traffic like a revolving door.
And of all the more players down on the other side of the field he's being tended to.
Doug Nettles was unable to get up after that last play.
Yeah. Doug Nettles number 30.
We have 548 remaining here in the third quarter of the game.
A pause in the action with a score of the Cowboys 28.
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Second and 12 for the Cowboys now.
Ball is at their own 27-yard line.
We're not certain, but we believe that Dede Lewis and Ron Lee
have both been disqualified from this game.
Tony Hill is a wide receiver, along with Drew Pearson,
for the Cowboys. They're staying with their number one unit.
And Stalbock is back to throw on second down.
And he screams it out the door, set a broken tackle.
He's at the 25-30.
He is to the 35-yard line, short of a first down.
It'll be third and long coming up, and Fred Cook tackled it.
He can blow through those tackles.
Oh, he really can. And really, Sandy Shivers read the play very well,
but he missed the tackle.
And of course, he's such a great running back that he's going to make you do that.
Shivers had perfect position on him, and it looked like he was going to nail him,
but he made an outside-inside move and it was all over.
Now Burton Lawless of the Cowboys is unable to get off the deck after that play.
After that play, and the clock has stopped again.
It's going to be third down and four for the Cowboys when play resumes.
Tom Rapparty will be in there, all probability,
in place of Lawless at the guard position.
Hank, does it surprise you that the Cowboys have waited until now,
and even passed this time, before putting in some of their reserved personnel?
No, it really doesn't. You know, things can change so quickly.
In professional football, that you want to make sure that you use your top people,
as long as you possibly can, and feel sure and secure that the game's under control.
We were in many, many games. One year we played the Denver Broncos in Kansas City.
We had a sizeable lead. I think it was like 28 to 3.
And we scored another touchdown later in the game that made it 35.
And finally won the game like 40 to 36.
I remember one game at Denver when Buffalo had 33 to nothing at the half,
and it ended in the 33, 33 times.
Yeah, you're really surprised Ralph Wilson at the time didn't you?
He was pretty startling. He left early.
I think he left half-timed, didn't you?
Trying to beat the snowstorm, thinking he had a playoff first,
and that knocked him out of the playoffs.
Preston Pearson goes into the lineup for the Dallas Cowboys as Burton Lawless
walks off and looking pretty good as he goes to the sideline.
That's enough that the players have been disqualified.
We're having quite a bit of difficulty.
That the way it is, Dee Dee Lewis and Ron Lee are both ejected from the game.
Disqualified is the term that they use in the NFL.
And Jim Tunney, the referee, didn't fool around with it, did he?
No, no. And he made that call as he was laying on the ground.
He was coming up and he made that call. I thought that's what it was.
And anytime you see the official go to the post benches,
you know that he's telling the coaches that both players have been kicked out of the ballgame.
The NFL's got a 64,000 fade here tonight.
The NFL for the weekend drew 822,000 for the opening weekend,
the largest in NFL history for the opening weekend.
And it is third down and four for the Cowboys who are in the shotgun with Stubbock
taking the snap back to throw, looking and throwing all of the middle.
It's caught for a first down by Preston Pearson.
He's at the 45 and tackle there.
After making some shifty moves, it's a first down for the Cowboys that they're on 45
and they can get what they need.
Yes, and you know, here again, they put, they've had a mismatch with Preston Pearson,
number 26 on Semonini, 56.
They went a triple wing formation to the right, pre-receivers on the right side,
two on the left, they just ran Preston Pearson on the inside.
He was wide open in the course of another big game.
I've got to repeat that the Coltson, this kind of a game with the kind of patterns that Dallas is using,
really missed Stan White at that linebacker spot.
Oh, they do, and it's really unfortunate that the Baltimore team, it's a great football team, it really is.
I think they've earned the right to be recognized as one that's going to a big game like this one,
the initial game of the season without two great performers like Bert Jones and Stan White.
A whistle sound and a flag drop procedure against the Cowboys will make it first in 15
and move the ball back to their own 41 yard line with 4-10 remaining in the third quarter,
28 to nothing Cowboys, and I have the feeling that the Cowboys wish the clock would move a little more rapidly than it's going.
Well, you know, the one thing about the calls that have been made on a legal procedure,
any time that you shift and create formations as much as they do, and they let the backs do that on their own,
there's bound to be some mix-ups, and this is what's happened several times in the game tonight.
Out of the eye of formation, the Cowboys shift into a pro-set back into the eye with Dorset,
and on first down the give is to Tony, he is hitting the backfield, gets away, changes direction,
he's at midfield, he's at the 45 and he has to out-break three men for a touchdown,
and he is out of bounds at the end yard line, Doug Meadows got him.
Boy, he's amazing.
He's the score.
Is he amazing?
And here again, he was nothing but a basic vanilla handoff to the weak side to the split inside,
Pat Dunovan, perverse Scott making the play.
He starts to go inside, which he normally has done in the past, but he jumped outside,
and John Dutton had a piece of him, but this is the tackle, he cuts across the side of the field
and picks up a great game on a beautiful run.
A lot of people watched Dorset running for the University of Pittsburgh,
didn't believe what they were saying, they said, nobody could be that good.
He is.
Yeah, he is. He certainly is, and if you think he's good, why, he's even better than what you think.
First and goal from the eighth, Dorset is out for a breather, and Doug Denison is in the backfield with Robert Newhouse.
Denison, the tail back in the eye formation, Stabach, first and goal,
gives to Denison up the middle, inside the five.
He drives to the two yard line.
He scored a touchdown earlier tonight.
Denison finally stopped on Lyle Blackwood, but it's going to be second and goal,
and the ball is marked down.
Two yards away from the Baltimore goal line.
Well, one right here with the score already 28-0.
There's got to be bad news for the visitors.
Oh, it really is, and that was another play where they're just trying to run up the middle,
trying to get Simonini going one way or the other, and taking advantage of his mobility side to side.
Incidentally, Tony Dorset has carried 16 times for 145 yards, 9-1.
Here's Denison driving into the middle, and he can't get there.
His Baltimore defensive line is not to be pushed around,
but it'll be third and goal with Cook Barnes, Herman and Dutton digging in to stop that thrust by Denison.
Stabach, by the way, who might be throwing here despite the short yard, on third down, is 15 out of 21.
Two TDs, 280 yards, had a couple of passes intercepted, but the Cowboys were able to overcome that.
The nice thing about the Cowboys is, you know, in this situation, they're very unpredictable.
It's hard to tell what they're allowed to do.
They're not going to let them out here with some kind of a run fake in play action.
The rookie Aloys Blackwell is in the backfield now for the Dallas Cowboys, Newhouse and Denison with him.
Third and goal from a yard away, and here's Stabach throwing touchdown.
It was shot by the tight end, Jay Staldy.
You know, and the thing about, they were in a strong run formation, double tight,
with an unbalanced full house backfield, but they ran the play action pass, simulated the run,
and of course it was beautifully thrown to the tight end, touchdown.
Well-conceived play by the Dallas Cowboys.
Roger Stabach to their fine second-shrink tight end, Jay Staldy, number 87.
Third touchdown pass of the night for Stabach. His first week statistics are going to be good.
Here is Waters holding and Septien cooking, kicking the ball, and that's good.
And that makes it 35-to-nothing with 2.49 remaining here in the third quarter.
You know, Septien's getting the ball through there, Jack, but he's looking a lot quicker than he should,
and he's going to have some trouble during the course of the season if he's not careful.
You know, and you mentioned after he missed the 19-yard field goal attempt earlier that he was lazy on the kick.
That was the last time tonight that he failed a really thumping.
Yeah, you have to attack the football. I don't care where you take it from, you have to attack it.
And that's a great thing about the great kicker we had at Kansas City on Stenerud.
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That drives 71 yards and 7 plays to 3 minutes and 13 seconds.
The deep men for the Colts, they've been back there frequently tonight, Marshall Johnson, Joe Washington,
and Don McCauley. The kick is high and taken by Johnson inside the tenets quickly to the 20,
to the 25, to the 30 yard line and tackled there.
And it was Dave Stahls who made that stop with 240 left in the third quarter.
Looks bad for the Colts, Hank. You can't see anything, any indicators on the field
that's going to change any of the momentum of this game.
No, there's no way in the world, you hate to say that about a team at this stage of the game,
but with the lack of offensive weapons that they have at this time and throughout the game,
why it's going to be very tough for them to do anything, if they get back into the football game
with a score of 35-0 in favor of the Dallas Cowboys.
Mike Kirkman drives the rally his troops from his own 31 yard line, has Dowdy in motion
and gives it to Roosevelt. Leakes goes over the right side, cuts it back and gets five.
Ron Lee is indeed disqualified from this game. Leakes is in the backfield.
Harvey Martin came all the way across the field to make that tackle from his defensive end position
on the right side and Danny White loosens on the sideline and probably will enter the game
the next time the Cowboys get the ball.
Yeah, I'm sure he'll take over the next possession. Interesting statistic,
Roger Stabach has completed 11 consecutive passes, ties his own club record.
Very impressive evening by Roger Stabach.
It would appear that he is through the way Danny White is loosening.
Here is second and five for the Colts from their own 36 with two minutes remaining in the third quarter.
35 to nothing Dallas, they give to Don McCauley. McCauley moves across the 41st half
and to the 45 and 46 yard line. Don McCauley, Clifair is up from the safety spot to make the hit.
This is kind of a game that you like very much as a coach and a coaching staff
because it provides you with an opportunity to play a lot of young people late in the fourth quarter
and during the fourth quarter and I'm sure this is what's going to happen.
If things don't change dramatically for the Baltimore Colts, we'll see a lot of substitutions in the fourth quarter.
In addition to tying his own record of 11 straight completions,
Stabach's four out of his last nine have been for touchdown.
Here's the first down for the Colts from their own 46, the first down pass,
the Blitz has picked up, the pass is caught and then dropped into 10 complete.
That's the rolling. Roger Carr had it and he was hit and coughed it up.
As Aaron Kyle nailed him, incomplete is the call.
You know, Jack, that was the first play action pass that Mike Kirkland has thrown so far in the ball game.
It was well executed, he jumped up into the pocket well, it was completed and then dropped
and they rolled it in incomplete to Roger Carr, number 81.
They did a good job of picking up the Blitz angst ramp.
Yes, they did, especially from play action.
Now the ball at the 46th and it's second down in 10, 64,000 plus in Texas stadium,
where the New York Giants will be playing next Sunday.
Here is the second down call by Kirkland.
Cowboy is mixing it up up front. Here is the running play with McCauley going over the right side,
leaks the ball back, putting clear of the way for him. McCauley is tackled.
Very close to the line of scrimmage, he gained only a yard, it will be 3-9.
It's not much fun being a quarterback when you're down 35-0 and especially if you're a young quarterback
and participating in the first game.
And the offensive line of the course being manhandled pretty well right now.
Yeah, they are, really are.
And here again it goes right back to what we talked about when you got 35 points ahead of a team.
They know you have to sort of get back in the ball game and it's tough.
Kirkland's pass is dropped by Don McCauley coming out of the backfield.
He was well covered by Thomas Henderson and he dropped the ball and David Lee is in the kick again.
You don't see that happen. Don McCauley is an excellent receiver last year,
caught 51 passes for 977 yards, a lot of yardage.
David Lee will stand inside his 35 yard line and kick the ball to Butts Johnson once again.
Less than a minute remaining in the third quarter, 35 seconds.
The snap is good. No pressure. Lee kicks it away, a line drive. Johnson comes up and takes it on the 18 to the 20,
to the 25, to the 30 yard line and gets to the 32 or 3 and is driven back by Darrell Loos, the linebacker.
Well, that's what the ball looked like when it was on a trailing line. It got down there very fast in it.
David won that ball a little higher than he got at that time.
And let's check the Dallas offensive unit and his stopback coming back in there.
No, he is not. Anyway, third year veteran from Arizona State is into the game.
Scott Laidlaw appears for the first time. Doug Denison is the other running back.
24 seconds remaining in the third quarter and Danny White gets some playings out.
Golden Richards is in the lineup and he is foot left.
On first down, Danny White as the ball gives it to Denison, goes outside, cuts it back up,
moves across the 35 to the 40 yard line, big yardage for the Cowboys and that one.
Simonini and Bruce Laid were the tacklers and that probably will be the final play of the third quarter.
Cowboys have plenty of reserves. All of home have seen quite a bit of action.
Three, two, one, there's the gun. And that's the end of the third quarter with a score.
Now the Cowboys 35 and the Colts nothing.
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15 minutes of football remaining. The Cowboys on top. Comfortably 35 to nothing.
Next Monday night, the Denver Broncos will play at Minnesota and we'll have the pleasure of sending the game your way.
Now we're going to see the same Baltimore club on Monday night the 18th of September as they play at New England.
You know, you strive for balance offensively. Any time that you play, Dallas has really had a remarkable balanced offense.
They have 290 yards rushing, 281 passing so far for a total of 490.
About Baltimore Colts have 78 yards rushing, 36 yards passing for 114 yards.
The ball at the moment belongs to the Cowboys second down and two from their own 42.
Danny White in there at quarterback. Scott Laidlaw is in the backfield with him.
Along with Doug Denison.
Golden Richards as a wide receiver and on second down. Richard splits to the left into the eye of formation with Denison the tail back.
White with a long count gives it to the up man, the full back Laidlaw and he drives forward as apparently a first down shy of the 45 yard line.
With Laird and Joe Ehrman making the tackle in the Baltimore defensive unit, they spent too much time on the playing field.
I directed some attention early in the game about the fact that Tom Lannery was concerned about his running game during the preseason.
In fact, they went into the Houston Euler game with the idea that they would not worry about the passing but just try to work in the running game.
I think from this stage of the game on in the fourth quarter, you'll see them try to run the ball of an awful lot and not put the ball in the air too much.
It is a first down at the 44 yard line of the Cowboys.
And they use a wing formation, a slot formation to the left.
And White gives to Doug Denison when deep cut it back up, cut to the line of scrimmage and gained only two yards on the play and the middle linebacker, Simon Iney, who is annually one of the leading tacklers, made the hit.
He was helped out by Lloyd Mumford, the cornerback.
Ray, 14 minutes left.
Ray, feel right. The great tackle in yesteryear for the Dallas Cowboys and still playing some of his playing right tackle at this time.
He's had some problems with his knee. He's a 12 year pro 33 years old from Fort Valley State, but he's in there playing right tackle right now for Andi Fedri.
Second down and eighth. Oldham comes into the defensive backfield for the Colts with the middle linebacker, Simon Iney out of there.
And on second and eighth, Danny White hands off to Denison on a draw play. He goes across midfield and he is very close to a first down.
Doug Denison with a good carry and Sanders shiver the linebacker finally stopped it.
Let's see where they mark it with regard to a first down. It appears to be a couple of inches short.
Making a third down. That's what it is at the 46th of Baltimore.
13-23 left in the game. 35 to nothing. The Cowboys are on top.
Two tight ends are in there. Dupree and Salty as the Cowboys try to get the first down.
Layed Law and Denison are in the backfield.
Danny White at quarterback sneaks it. He's big enough to get the short yard as needed and he did to the 45 yard line of Baltimore.
They made some changes offensively. Dallas has in their field positions. They're running back to receivers.
J. Talby is playing tight end. But the linemen are basically the same. Pat Dunovan is playing left tackle.
Herbie Scott is playing left guard. Fitzgerald number 62 still the center. Burton Lawless is playing right guard.
And of course the only change is Ray Fiori. Of course he's played for a long but it's not much of a change.
Ball of the 45 yard line of Baltimore. First down for the Dallas Cowboys.
12-37 remaining in the contest. And the clock moving as Danny White gets under center. They run out of the eye of formation.
They give it to the tail back Dennis and he blew it right up the middle and he caught Baltimore in a stunning situation and picked up a quick four yards on the play.
It's very obvious that they're going to continue to try to run the ball and many times in this situation you tell your team with this kind of a lead,
you really want to work on your running game and don't put, don't pump the ball up at all just to stuff it full of sand and run it.
Total yards now in the game. Dallas 494 Baltimore 113. So the Cowboys will go over the 500 yards air long.
You know consistently year in and year out there one or two in total offense and they're going to start the season in the National Football League and the National Conference again being the number one team offensively.
First down.
I'm sure the same way defensively.
First down at the Baltimore 41 and the fake to Dennis and the pass out here to Golden Richard.
He was all alone out there had no blocking cut the ball was knocked down immediately picked up a couple of yards and Darryl loose got to him in a big hurry.
1130 remaining in the game.
Mike Hakeman. You know as a fine young linebacker for the Dallas team and they like him very much.
I, you know, it's amazing what depth they have.
I'm talking about the course of Dallas defense.
I shouldn't be because they're on offense but I happen to think about his name because they like him very much.
They're going to run some people in there.
Hank, there is third down and four for the Cowboys and then the shotgun goes Danny White.
This will be his second pass attempt. No, it's an inside handoff to Pearson.
Pearson going around the left side breaks it for a first down but there's a flag as Drew Pearson was tackled at the 30 yard line of Baltimore.
And it looks like that play might come back.
We have a holding call against the Cowboys stopping the clock with 1051 remaining in the game.
They can come at you in so many different ways out of this, out of these Dallas offensive formation.
Yes, they and they shift and of course I mentioned earlier they shift and create formations.
You utilize the man in motion.
And I mentioned earlier they really haven't shown a lot of the tendencies that they've expressed in other games.
Holding, there's the sign by the official.
Here was Herbert Scott, the offensive guard who was holding on that inside handoff to Drew Pearson, bringing the ball back, making a third down.
And they're trying to break some tendencies.
Normally from the spread formation they're going to pass the ball that time they ran it.
They want to make sure other teams see that they will also run from the spread along with throwing the football.
They're back in the spread formation again, which goes back to the basic rule of third and four plus they'll get into the spread.
Third down and nine now from the 44 of Baltimore. Danny White back to throw.
Screens it out here and it is caught by Pearson.
Chase from behind, he gets away and he's blasted it out of bounds.
And he has the first down.
You know it's amazing.
Herbert's got two of them, but not until the Cowboys pick up another first down and they're not sitting on the ball at all.
It's amazing. It's amazing how often they throw the ball, they get the ball, the Preston Pearson from the spread formation.
That's who they like to hit and they consistently get the ball to them. It's just remarkable.
It's 35 to nothing now. There's been no scoring here in the third quarter.
The score was 21 to nothing at the half in favor of the Cowboys. They've added two TDs. They're on their way again.
Ball is at the Baltimore 35 with the first down.
White and company come out.
Laidlaw is the up back, the full back in the eye. Denison is the tail back. They run out of the eye formation.
And here's Danny White giving to Denison who changes direction, tries to get outside and cannot do it.
He was chased by the corner of the safety man, Bruce Laird, who then got the help he needed from the linebacker, Darryl Luce, to make the hit on Denison.
Denison, about whom we've been talking quite a bit, is Danny White with a give-all. He was hit, stopped, fumbled, recovered it himself.
He ran into a stone wall that time, the left side, cooking barns up front for Baltimore.
It is fourth down and set the end comes in to try to add some more points for the Cowboys.
There have been five touchdowns by the Cowboys. No field goals with a missed attempt earlier.
Charlie Waters will spot the ball on the 35, so set the end will have to boot at 45 yards.
One thing that's very important with a soccer-style kicker is the placement of the left foot. The heel must be even with the ball.
Here's the kick. He's got a crack at it. It is no good. It's off to the left, and the ball will come back out to the line of scrimmage.
A missed by Septien, and you wonder how much they're going to miss, Sephrin Herrera this year and the Dallas Cowboys schedule.
We have 829 remaining in the game with a score of Dallas 35, the Colts, nothing. Let's take time.
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Well, is the same old Cowboys or should I say Hank Stramon, even better cowboy team we're witnessing tonight?
Well, I don't think he ever stayed the same. He's either going to get better or he's going to get worse, and I really think the Cowboys are going to be better.
Interesting stat again on Dorsett. He rushed 15 times, 147 yards, a 9.8 average. Most yards gained in the National Football League this weekend. He caught three passes for 101 yards and one touchdown.
Here's Kirkland back to throwing first down, and he gets it out here to his rookie tight end, Reese McCall. McCall with a good grab, then goes out of bounds as he was bumped out
of a substantial game for the Baltimore Colts. You know, they like this young player from the University of Auburn. He's 6'6", weighs about 235, and they think he's going to blossom and develop into one of the fine tight ends in the league.
He's been playing behind Mac Austin, but Austin, a veteran now, been around for quite a few years, and they expect McCall to play quite a bit. He picked up seven yards on that reception from Mike Kirkland, and it is second down and three.
The ball at the 34 yard line of the Colts who show motion with Glenn Dowdy. Here is the toss to the tailback. McCauley gets to the 35 and gained very little on that one as he was stopped by Bob Bruning, the middle linebacker.
Well, the Cowboys may have changed some personnel on offense, and they did, but they're staying right with it with this defensive unit.
Yes, they are. They surely are. And you know, interesting offensively, the Baltimore Colts, the three or four passes at times, they've been able to complete passes, they've all been, passes that were thrown on the move with moving the pocket, and I'm sure they're going to try to do more of that in the remaining part of this football game.
Kirkland gives the ball to McCauley Colts, supporting across the 37 yard line. He is really good. He knows where he has to go.
Yes, he does. And you give him any kind of a crack and he's going to make some things and get the most out of the play.
Less than seven minutes remaining in the game, 6.50 left, and the score is the Cowboys 35 to Colts nothing.
A Baltimore first down, one of the few that they have on the entire evening. That is seven for them now.
The ball is, and a first down from Mike Kirkland, who is getting a world of experience tonight. Field intercepted.
Intercepted by Kirkland Harris, and the Cowboys get the ball with 6.17 remaining.
The Harris came away with that ball. It was a dying duck up in the air and Harris only had to come back and catch it. Well, it's a timeout with 6.17 remaining in the game.
A timeout on the field with the score. Cowboys 35 and Baltimore nothing.
The Dallas Cowboys, even though they've made some substitutions offensively, they continue to dominate this football game.
Both offensively and defensively there, we just saw an interception by Cliff Harris. The ball was thrown a little bit too short.
Not much of a spiral. He had severe pressure. But you know, I really kind of like the looks of this Mike Kirkland.
He's getting quite a baptism tonight, but I think the experience that he's gaining in this game today as he goes down the road during, of course, the long 16 game schedule,
is going to prove to be very invaluable to him. Don't be deceived also by the score of this game because the Dallas Cowboys, even though they're dominating this game, 35 to nothing,
make no mistake about the fact that the Baltimore Coles are a very fine football team. This is a great illustration of what happens when you lose a great performer like Bert Jones.
But they'll be back. He'll be back in the lineup, hopefully in about five weeks, and I'm sure he'll bring this team back around as a kind of a personality that they have enjoyed in the past.
One of the advantages of a long season, and this is going to be a long one for all of the team, 16 games in the regular season, is that Baltimore, without a guy like Bert Jones,
can lose two or three games early and still have ample time to come back and win their division.
Yes, they can survive it. It's not like the situation we had in New Orleans where we lost our great quarterback Archie Manning.
He only played nine games for us in 28 games the last two years, and it really hurts you tremendously.
Here is the give by Danny White to his fullback, Scott Laidlaw. He tried to crack it up the middle and got only a yard.
The Baltimore team will entertain the Dolphins next Sunday, and the Cowboys travel to the Giants, so we'll have two winners meeting early next Sunday.
Meanwhile, a week from the night, Monday night, we're going to be in Minnesota, and the Vikings will be trying to get their first win,
and they'll have to do it at the expense of the Denver Broncos. Broncos won yesterday, and we hope you'll tune us in next Monday night here on CBS Radio.
The injured player coming off, but appearing to be quite all right now, is Joe Irman.
The defensive tackled for the Colts with less than six minutes remaining in the game, and the Cowboys on top 35-0.
Second down and nine, four Dallas from their own 26, Golden Richards to the right, puts Johnson to the left,
and the tight end is Jay Saldy. He's on the left side. Laidlaw is the fullback. He ships from the pro set.
Danny White takes the ball, gives it to Scott Denison. He goes over the right side, and he is grabbed by a one-foot.
Herb Orbus is in there defensively for the Colts. Got him and wouldn't turn him loose.
You know, Jim Cooper is now playing center for the Dallas Cowboys, number 61-65, 250, a two-year guy from Temple.
They like him very much. He's a backup center and also a backup guard. They think he's a great prospect,
and they anticipate a great career for Jim Cooper, number 61.
Tom Randall has been getting some playing time. He's left guard for the Cowboys, the rookie out of Iowa.
Cowboys have only five rookies on their team this year. They run out of the shotgun now on third down and eighth,
and Danny White is back to throw. Scoots it to the sidelines, and it is caught for a first down out to the 42-yard line.
The ball hauled in by puts Johnson with a dandy reception, though covered by Bruce Laird and Doug Meddles.
You know, the other interesting thing about the substitutions, they have Andy Federick, who was playing a right tackle initially
and started the game at that position, is now playing left tackle. So they're preparing for things that might happen during a course of the season
so they can get good playing time in a variety of positions.
And it's good for the Cowboys to have Rayfuel Wright playing. He underwent a knee operation, but he's in there at the right offensive tackle spot.
They're playing, of course, without Ralph Neely, who has retired, so they can use that extra man at the position.
A first down at the 43-yard line of Dallas, Danny White gives to Doug Denison, trying to get outside.
He gets to the sideline, cuts it back in, crosses midfield, makes a couple of tackles. He's down to the 40 and now the 35-yard line of Baltimore.
Scott Denison finally stopped by Doug Meddles, and it's a weary band of Baltimore defenders chasing the Cowboys now.
I tell you, Scott Laidlaw made a nice block on that play also to provide a Denison with the opportunity to scamper down the sideline for the big game.
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35-to-nothing Cowboys with 4-18 remaining in the game.
Roger's one of the class people in professional football. They illustrate this point right before the game.
We were in a locker room and they had a lot of things to do, but he provided us with a few minutes for the interview with a lot of class and poise,
and he's one of the big league guys in the league.
Here's Danny White handing off to the pullback, Scott Laidlaw, and he drives inside the 35-yard line down to the 32,
for a pickup of three for Dallas, putting us under the four-minute mark in time.
The score remains 35-to-nothing Dallas. They were ahead 21-to-nothing at the half, and some of the 64,000 have departed Texas Stadium.
They're early convinced that their home club has a victory under their belts, and it'll be a long trip home for Baltimore.
Second down and seventh.
Danny White out of the eye of formation now has Alloy's Blackwell in the backfield,
and he ends the ball, Laidlaw goes over the left side for a couple of yards.
Dallas not really playing wide open football now, sitting on it, running the clock down, and doing a good job of that.
The ball is to the 30 of Baltimore, third and five.
I'm sure everybody's aware of the fact that the plays are sent in from the sideline.
Tom Landry and his fine staffs send in every play, and you know the advantage of that.
Jack is a fact that once you call the play, your whole coaching staff is aware of what's coming.
They can look at the point of attack, they can look at the back side, and they're fully aware of what's happened on every play.
There's 35 and a wobbly pass, but Danny White, which had been deflected, was almost intercepted by Doug Nettles.
He couldn't hang on to it, the ball fell in complete, and it'll be fourth down.
They bring in Septien, and I'm sure one of the reasons they're doing it here is to try to determine his kicking range in game situations.
Raphael is a very emotional young fella, and it's important for him to, I think, get off to a good start and kick one of these field goals for Dallas,
because there's going to be emotional strain on him if he doesn't succeed.
There will be a 48 yard attempt. Charlie Waters will get it down, handle the low snaps, Septien boosts it.
It's got a chance. It's good.
Four points for Dallas. It's 38 to nothing.
That's a great play, a great kick for Raphael. Very important kick for him, but here again, it's an illustration of the kind of range he has.
He's got a strong leg.
He missed from 19 yards, he missed from 45 yards out, he hit one for 48.
And now with the score, Dallas 38 and the Colts nothing. Let's take that off.
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We have 241 remaining in this football game. Hank Stram and Jack Buck with you for CVS.
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38 to nothing is the score in favor of the Cowboys. Baltimore missed a couple of chances early.
Couldn't capitalize on turnovers by the Cowboys and have been kept off the scoreboard all night.
Septien will kick it. And the same men are back.
With Johnson Washington and McCauley waiting for the kick.
There it is by Septien and it is a strong one carrying down to the goal line. It is taken on the goal line by Marshall Johnson.
He's up the middle to the 20 to the 25. High steps to the 30 to the 35. And out to the 40 yard line and he made Hank Stram happy by putting the ball in his left arm while running down the left side.
Yes, he did. And he's getting a lot of practice at kick the run on those kicks back, but he's a good looking prospect.
And let me say again that I don't think the fans around the country should be deceived by what the score is here tonight.
38 to nothing. The Colts are still a very good football team and I think they'll prove that when they get their people back.
But you know, it's as typical as I mentioned earlier that it is very difficult to operate officially against a great team like the Dallas Cowboys when you're not a full strength.
The Colts are at their own 42 yard line. Mike Kirkland who has played all night. Is that the quarterback spot?
He has Roosevelt leaks in the backfield along with Don McCauley and here is the running play and McCauley coming to the left is across the 45 yard line and really crumbled by other the linebacker and Randy Hughes.
That was Roosevelt leaks carrying the ball and Don McCauley blocking for him got out to the 49 yard line and it'll be second down and three.
Now we'll have the two minute warning before we have any further action.
The whistle sounds in the two minute warning will be given to both benches.
Two minutes left and a pause in the action with the score of the Cowboys 38 and Baltimore nothing. Let's take time out.
The day is done. It's time to let it go. It's the moment to unwind.
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We have but two minutes remaining in this football game in Texas with the Cowboys leading 38 to nothing.
Hank Stramman Jack Buck with you for CBS. The ball is in possession of the Baltimore Colts.
They have a second down and free situation from their own 49 yard line second down and free.
After my the way Mike Kirkman has held in there tonight.
Yes he has. He really has. He shows he shows a lot of boys. He's a good athlete and the playing time even though it's an
interesting day. The ball is in possession of the Baltimore Colts.
The way the players are using cars will be very helpful to him and the ball of all Colts.
So you want to when you project the season on a 15 more game basis he hands off to a ball of all the more newcomer.
Don Hardiman used to play with Houston was obtained from Tampa Bay and he carried over the right side and picked up a
first down for the Colts 142 remaining in the game.
and three in this period and I
believe they could have scored
a heck of a lot more points than
they now possess.
First down from the forty seven
yard line Kirkman is back to
throw.
He has chased he looks he runs.
He throws and it is caught for
a first down at the thirty five
yard line by Reese McCall the
rookie and he is dumped in a
hurry by the linebacker Guy
Brown who's playing in place of
D.D. Lewis who was ejected from
this football game.
Now one oh five remaining and
Baltimore into their two minute
drill Kirkland back to throw on
first down he has it incomplete
and just passed the outstretched
arms of the linebacker Mike
Higman as he intended it for
Marshall Johnson stops the clock
with fifty nine seconds remaining
in the game Dallas the Dallas
Cowboys of a total offense of
five hundred and eighty yards the
second best in the history of
their club how many points you
think they could have had.
Oh it's no telling you they got
thirty eight and they could have
had fifty the ball is at the
thirty five yard line of the
Cowboys Baltimore would like to
score some points before they
start the long trip home.
Randy Burke is in as a wide
receiver he's a second year man
now from Kentucky wearing number
eighty four for the Baltimore
Club and on second down Kirkland
is back to throw from the pocket
he throws and there's his tight
end all along at the fifty to
the fifty five touchdown.
Now that he can get any bump of
the ball.
Oh my.
And it is a touch back.
Can you believe that that's an
incredible turn of events in
it.
Kirkland threw the ball on the
money to his tight end Reese
McCall was all alone outside the
ten he caught it.
He was hit inside the five
struggle into the end zone
crossed the goal line but did
not have the ball when he crossed
the goal line.
It was recovered in the end zone
by the linebacker Mike Higman
and it is a touch back.
It's typical of what happens if
you don't if you make the
reception and put the ball away
very firmly.
I think he was very happy about
making the touchdown and forgot
to take the ball with him.
But when things go bad they really
go bad don't they.
And the ball comes out to the
twenty yard line it belongs to
the Cowboys with forty seven
seconds remaining in the game
had McCall just crossed the goal
line with the ball in his
possession it would have been a
TD but he lost it just before he
got there and the Cowboys still
have their shutout thirty eight
to nothing forty seven seconds
remaining in the game Danny
White at cornerback at the
quarterback spot he gives to the
up back laid law who gained only
a yard and I don't think anybody
will be anxious to stop the clock
about one more play and that'll
be it Fred Cook number seventy
two who really got good
penetration on the play almost
tore his head off before he got
the handoff but he went over the
top and missed one more play and
that'll be about it to repeat
fall ball more held the Cowboys
scoreless in the first quarter
the trail twenty one to nothing
at the half Cowboys came up with
fourteen in the third period
and they've scored three here in
the final fifteen minutes we're
down to thirteen seconds clock
running the ball be snapped Danny
White gives it a laid law again
he moves across the twenty five
he's tackled at the twenty seven
the clock continues to run and
that's the opener for the Colts
and the Cowboys with Dallas
running it thirty eight to nothing
will continue with our wrap up
and just a moment here's how it
went from a scoring standpoint
in the first quarter it was zip
zip nothing nothing Dallas scored
twenty one points in the second
quarter fourteen and a third at
three points in the fourth won the
football game very and early thirty
eight to nothing this is how it
happened it was twenty one or
nothing at half time in the third
quarter Dallas Drew Pearson caught
a thirty eight yard touchdown pass
from Roger Stalbach set the end made
the kick and they got seven more
points eight plays and seventy two
yards in the third quarter
Sally got a one yard pass from
Roger Stalbach and set the end made
the kick seventy seven one yards
and seven plays and then set the
end in the fourth quarter picked a
forty eight yard field goal that
made it thirty eight to nothing a
very impressive will overwhelming
win for the Dallas Cowboys but
here again I mentioned this several
times don't mistake them or mislead
by the by the fact that the coast got
beat like they did tonight they're a
serious half