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Thomas Wade Landry (/ ˈ l æ n d r i / LAN-dree; September 11, 1924 – February 12, 2000) was an American professional football coach, player, and World War II veteran. Regarded as one of the greatest head coaches of all time, [1] he was the first head coach of the Dallas Cowboys in the National Football League (NFL), a position he held for 29 seasons.
[1] [2] [3] The team's record with Landry was 20-7, and 14-1 in the Yankee Conference. [4] He played in the North-South Shrine Game before the 1968 draft. [1] [2] He was in the 1968 Chicago Charities All Star Game, playing with the collegians against the NFL champion Green Bay Packers. Landry threw a touchdown pass to future Lions teammate Earl ...
Tom Landry was the first head coach of the Cowboys, and coached the team from 1960 to 1988. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1990. The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team based in Frisco, Texas. Their stadium is located in Arlington, Texas.
Irvin was the last Tom Landry-coached player to retire from the NFL. Landry died on February 12, 2000, several months after Irvin's injury in Philadelphia but before Irvin had announced that he was retiring due to the severity of that injury.
It was around this time in 1989 when a new Cowboys owner named Jerry Jones abruptly fired Dallas legend Tom Landry to bring in Jimmy Johnson from the Miami Hurricanes. It was a hostile takeover ...
Jones made many changes to the team, including firing longtime head coach Tom Landry, the only head coach of the team up to that time. Later, Bright claimed that he wanted to fire Landry himself as early as 1987, but Schramm claimed he didn't have a successor in place yet. [6]
Former Detroit Lions QB Greg Landry, the team’s last Pro Bowl QB for nearly three decades, has died at age 77, the team announced Friday night.
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