Margene Adkins
| Margene Adkins | |
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Position (s): Wide Receiver |
Jersey numbers: 23, 26 |
| born April 30, 1947 in Fort Worth , Texas | |
| Career information | |
| Active : 1970 - 1973 | |
| NFL Draft : 1970 / Round: 2 / Pick: 49 | |
| College : Henderson County Junior College | |
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| Career statistics | |
| Games | 35 |
| as a starter | 9 |
| Kick-off return | 81 |
| Stats at NFL.com | |
| Stats at pro-football-reference.com | |
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Margene Adkins (* thirtieth April 1947 in Fort Worth , Texas , USA ) is a former American American Football- and Canadian-Football- players. He played as a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL), including the Dallas Cowboys .
Player career
Margene Adkins played football in high school . After moving to Henderson County Junior College , he played there for Cardinals College Football . The professional player career began for Adkins in the CFL . He signed a contract with the Ottawa Rough Riders . He played for the Ottawa team as a wide receiver. In 1968 and 1969 he was able to win the Gray Cup with his team . His sporting achievements drew the attention of the NFL scouts to him. In 1970 , the Tom Landry coached Dallas Cowboys drew him in the second round to 47th place in the NFL Draft .
In his first game year 1970 Adkins could only play five games due to an injury. The Cowboys managed to win their first championship title in the NFC this year . After the team was able to win ten of 14 games in the regular season , the team from Dallas moved into the play-offs , where they could initially defeat the Detroit Lions 5-0. In the following NFC Championship Game against the San Francisco 49ers , the Cowboys prevailed with 17:10. In Super Bowl V , the Cowboys had to admit defeat to the Baltimore Colts 16:13.
In the following game year, 1971, Adkins had injuries. Nevertheless, he won the Super Bowl with his team . After eleven wins from 14 games, the team from Dallas moved into the play-offs again under the leadership of their two quarterbacks Craig Morton and Roger Staubach . After a 14: 3 win over the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship Game, they made it into Super Bowl VI . In this game there was a 24: 3 victory over the Miami Dolphins .
Margene Adkins moved to the New Orleans Saints after this season . With a gain of space of 1020 yards , Adkins was able to achieve an NFL annual best with 43 kick-off returns . In 1973 he moved to the New York Jets managed by Weeb Ewbank . He was released from the Jets in 1974 due to further injuries . He then joined the Chicago Winds , a team from the World Football League . However, the team from Chicago had to stop playing during the season due to financial problems.
After the career
Margene Adkins was after his career firefighter at Lockheed Martin . In 2008, he sustained an injury while fighting a fire that required hospital treatment.
Honors
Margene Adkins was voted All Star in the CFL in 1969 . He is also in his college's hall of fame .
Web links
source
- Jens Plassmann: NFL - American Football. The game, the stars, the stories (= Rororo 9445 rororo Sport ), Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-499-19445-7
- Peter Golenbock: Landry's Boys: An Oral History of a Team and an Era, Triumph Books, 2005, ISBN 1-617-49954-4
- Brian Jensen, Troy Aikman : Where Have All Our Cowboys Gone, 2005, ISBN 1-461-63611-6
Individual evidence
- ^ Annual statistics of the cowboys 1970
- ↑ Statistics play-off game Dallas Cowboys vs. Detroit Lions 1970
- ↑ Statistics NFC final 1970
- ↑ Statistics Super Bowl V
- ↑ Annual statistics of the cowboys 1971
- ↑ Statistics NFC final 1971
- ↑ Statistics Super Bowl VI
- ↑ Press report about the use of Margene Adkins as a firefighter
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Adkins, Margene |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American football player and Canadian football player, firefighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 30, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fort Worth , Texas , USA |