Charlie Waters
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Position (s): Safety / Cornerback |
Jersey number (s): 41 |
| born on September 10, 1948 in Miami , Florida | |
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| Active : 1970 - 1981 | |
| NFL Draft : 1970 / Round: 3 / Pick: 66 | |
| College : Clemson University | |
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| Career statistics | |
| Games | 160 |
| as a starter | 129 |
| Interceptions | 41 |
| Stats at NFL.com | |
| Stats at pro-football-reference.com | |
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Charles "Charlie" Tatum Waters (born September 10, 1948 in Miami , Florida , USA ) is a former American American football player . He played for the Dallas Cowboys in the National Football League (NFL) and won the Super Bowl twice ( VI , XII ) with the Cowboys .
Player career
College career
Charlie Waters grew up in South Carolina , attended in North Augusta , the High School and studied for his degree at Clemson University for its football team, the Clemson Tigers he college football played. In college he was used as a quarterback , but moved in his senior year to the position of wide receiver - in 1967 he won the championship of the Atlantic Coast Conference with the Tigers .
Professional career
Charlie Waters was 66th in the 1970 NFL Draft by the Dallas Cowboys in the third round. selected. The Dallas Cowboys trained by Tom Landry retrained Waters as a defensive back . Landry had succeeded in forming a top team from the cowboys. In the defense of Ernie Stautner , the team that went down in NFL history as Doomsday Defense , later members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Bob Lilly and Mel Renfro played . As a substitute for Cliff Harris , who had also been committed in 1970, Waters was used in the defensive backfield of the team from Dallas .
After the 1970 regular season , Waters was able to move into the Super Bowl for the first time with the Cowboys after a 17:10 win over the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship Game . In Super Bowl V , however, the Baltimore Colts were able to prevail with 16:13.
The following year, Roger Staubach took over the role of starting quarterback for the team from Texas . Charlie Waters and the Cowboys won Super Bowl VI this year after a 14: 3 win over the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship Game against the Miami Dolphins, trained by Don Shula , 24: 3.
In 1973 Waters was deployed to the cornerback position. In this position he was able to establish himself as a starter . Two years later he switched back to the position of safety. In this position, too, he became a regular player.
In the 1975 season , Waters was able to move into the Super Bowl for the third time. In the NFC Championship Game, the Los Angeles Rams were initially defeated 37: 7. However, the Cowboys could not prevail against the Pittsburgh Steelers , who were looked after by Chuck Noll , and lost the Super Bowl X just under 21:17.
Two years later, however, the Dallas Cowboys achieved their second Super Bowl victory. Waters moved into the play-offs with his team after twelve wins and two defeats in the regular season . In the divisional play-off game against the Chicago Bears they had no chance. Waters managed to intercept three passes from quarterback Bob Avellini . The Bears left the field with a 37: 7 defeat. In the following NFC Championship Game, where the Minnesota Vikings lost a 23: 6 loss. This success was followed by a 27:10 win over the Denver Broncos , which Waters could win his second Super Bowl.
Due to a knee injury, Charle Waters had to suspend the 1979 season. After the 1981 season, he ended his career with the Cowboys. In his career, he was able to intercept nine passes of the opposing quarterback during a play-off game. This value and the three intercepted passes in the game against the Chicago Bears are still the league best today.
Football coach
In 1993 and 1994 , Charlie Waters was Defensive Coordinator with the Denver Broncos. In 1995 he served in this capacity at the University of Oregon .
Honors
Charlie Waters was voted All Pro twice and played three times in the Pro Bowl , the season final game of the best players in a game round. He is a member of the Clemson Athletic Hall of Fame , the South Carolina Athletics Hall of Fame, and his hometown sports hall of fame .
After the career
Two years after his playing career, Waters worked as a football commentator for the American television station CBS . He moderated games in the NFL. In 2006 and 2007 he worked as a radio commentator for the Dallas Cowboys. He runs a gas company with his former teammate Cliff Harris. With him he wrote a book about life with the Dallas Cowboys. Waters is married and has two sons. A third son died at the age of 17.
Works
- Tales from the Dallas Cowboys , Sports Publishing, ISBN 978-1-59670-151-9
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 1-61749-954-4
- Brian Jensen, Troy Aikman : Where Have All Our Cowboys Gone , 2005, ISBN 1-4616-3611-6
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Annual statistics of the cowboys 1970
- ↑ Statistics NFC Championship Game 1970
- ↑ Super Bowl V statistics
- ↑ Annual statistics of the cowboys 1971
- ↑ Statistics NFC Championship Game 1971
- ↑ Super Bowl VI statistics
- ↑ Annual statistics of the cowboys 1975
- ↑ Statistics NFC Championship Game 1975
- ↑ Super Bowl X statistics
- ↑ Annual statistics of the Dallas Cowboys 1977
- ↑ Statistics play-off game Dallas Cowboys vs. Chicago Bears 1977
- ↑ Statistics NFC Championship Game 1977
- ↑ Super Bowl XII statistics
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Waters, Charlie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Waters, Charles Tatum |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American football player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Miami , Florida , USA |