Evening star., 1963-09-28
Maryland Counts on Pride and Passing
Cowboys Thrive
On Rood Work
By MORRIS SIEGEL


NOBODY EXPECTED the Dallas Cowboys to win many
games in their first two years the National Football
League They true to form They only four
many the Redskins bagged in the same two sea-
However the Redskins had better excuse for
winning They had been at it longer
Last season, Dallas third, the Cowboys began to be
heard FROM although their fans weren't They clicked
five times and Tom Landry the only coach the has
known began to the light
He did nothing to discount growing belief that 1858
would be the year the Cowboys would really begin to ride
tall in the saddle It's about time for the team to make its
move. The Cowboys saunter into D. c. Stadium with
perfect record, two Hckings in two games.
I'm PERPLEXED" means Robert F. Thompson,
Cowboy director in charge of mdweek preg game enter
anment Thompson headed the advance guard of Texans
who slip into Washington annually with the that
they're aboard to watch the Cowboy play.
There have been several instances in the past when
enthusiastic members of the travelling Dallas fan club
became too exhausted from pre-game SkirmisheS and
reduced to listening to the game on the radio.
However, Thompson is not one of these. He is made
of serner stuff He always shows up, at least Becoming
"perplexed" is easy Thompson He usually is, most of
the time from selfinflicted wounds But it won't happen
this time, he promises.
Thompson and Tom Webb, who centered football
for Maryland in the Curly Byrd recently signed
imted-iquid treaty Thompson maintains he has stuck
to the words of the agreement He suspects Webb that
hasn't and this curiosity brought Thompson into town
early. He here oneman on-Sight inspection team
VA OAA"'
he being watched. He's in Florida at the moment
THOMPSON, WHO EASILY managed not TO complete
his studies Notre Dame barged into the Cowboy pic
ture in corporate way He is the athletic director OF the
vast Murchson enterprises whose holdings ncue some
thing called the Tecon Corp.
Tecon is the holding company for any number Of
heavy construction outfits banks housing Developments
publishing firm and a track. It also is the
parent company of the Cowboys and this accounts for
ThnYon nS0YoSp Or
At the start of the only Thompsons hopes
high which is different for him. Dallas truly would be-
the big D" of pro football he reckoned The COM
petng Texans of the American Football League had fled
to City, and the Cowboys had the town to them
selves.
However, on September Is Thompson and Tecon
thought they might have overbid ob something they
rarely do The ST. Louis Cardinals smacked the Cowboys
While they still reeng from this upset pasting the
Cleveland Browns flattened them This upsetng of
course but not an upset
AFTER THE CLEVELAND CLOBBERING, nobody in
Dallas suggested that the Cowboys should hit the road
but had there been movement in that direction the team
would not have become insulted.
The Cowboys usually play their best games away
from Dallas Their two most CALLING pratfals both came
in the Cotton Bowl which rarely suffers from popula-
ton explosion when the Cowboys rent the park.
They ripped by Green Bay before 1000 there in
preseason meeting in September, which too bad
Last year worse The Giants who leading the
Cowboys by only game ana half at the time spat-
tered them, 41-1O, before 46OOO all-me high for
league game in Dallas.
Everybody's enthusiasm, even ThompSons, waned
after that Not many fans showed up for the balance
of the schedule either.
On the other hand Dallas most notable successes
have come on the road 1860 the Cowboys first year.
they played New York to 3l-31 standoff in Yankee
Stadium The next year the Cowboys did better
New York. They won 17l6-one of the few defeats in
flicted. on the Eastern Division champions
The Redskins could be in for drubbing, Thompson
indicated. Our team has had that New York look all
week." he warned. Thompson failed to specify which
New York look the one in Dallas or Yankee Stadium