Cornell Green
| Cornell Green | |
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Positions: Cornerback , Safety |
Jersey number (s): 34 |
| born February 10, 1940 in Oklahoma City , Oklahoma | |
| Career information | |
| Active : 1962 - 1974 | |
| Undrafted in 1962 | |
| College : Utah State University | |
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| Career statistics | |
| Games | 182 |
| as a starter | 171 |
| Touchdowns | 4th |
| Stats at pro-football-reference.com | |
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Cornell M. Green (born February 10, 1940 in Oklahoma City , Oklahoma , USA , nickname : Sweet Lips ) is a former American American football player. He played as cornerback and safety in the National Football League (NFL) with the Dallas Cowboys .
Player career
College career
Cornell Green grew up in Richmond , California , where he also attended high school. His older brother Pumpsie Green was a successful baseball player and was signed in 1959 as the first dark-skinned player by the Boston Red Sox . Cornell Greene, on the other hand, was a successful basketball player at school . From 1960 to 1962 Cornell Green studied at Utah State University , where he played basketball for the Utah State Aggies . Because of his athletic performance, he was chosen twice for All American and three times in the league selection. He never played American football until his engagement with the Dallas Cowboys.
Professional career
In the 1962 NBA Draft , Green was drawn by the Chicago Zephyrs . However, he never signed a professional contract with the Chicago team . Due to a tip from his basketball coach, the Dallas Cowboys invited Cornell Green to a trial training session in 1962 . Although he himself did not expect to be signed, the team from Dallas trained by Tom Landry offered him a contract. From then on he was used as a cornerback in the defense of the cowboys. Since he was able to convince in his rookie season , Green was elected to the NFL's all-rookie team. The best young players of the season moved into this virtual team.
The Dallas Cowboys were among the worst teams in the NFL since their first year of play in 1960. Landry succeeded in the following years from the cowboys to form a top team. Defenders like Mel Renfro , Jethro Pugh and Larry Cole could be signed. In 1966 , Ernie Stautner , who would later become a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, joined the team as assistant coach and henceforth looked after the defense of the team that would go down in NFL history as the Doomsday Defense .
In the game year 1970 Green, who was used as safety from this season, won with his team his first championship title in the National Football Conference (NFC). 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 first 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 , Green and his team had to admit defeat to the Baltimore Colts 16:13.
In 1971 Cornell Green won eleven of 14 games with the Cowboys in the regular season and thus moved back into the play-offs. After a 14: 3 victory over the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC final, they made it to Super Bowl VI . In this game the Miami Dolphins were defeated with a 24: 3 victory.
After the career
Cornell Green played with the Dallas Cowboys until 1974 . He continued his professional career with the Cowboys until 1979 as a scout , after which he left the franchise to work in business. As a scout for the team from Texas , he was able to celebrate winning Super Bowl VII beforehand . From 1987 he worked as a scout for the Denver Broncos . In 2015, after seeing two Super Bowl wins ( XXXII and XXXIII ) with the Broncos , he retired .
Honors
Cornell played in the Pro Bowl five times and was voted All Pro six times . As a basketball player, he was inducted into his college 's hall of fame in 1993. ,
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
- ↑ Cornell Green as a Scout with the Denver Broncos
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| SURNAME | Green, Cornell |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Green, Cornell M .; Sweet lips |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American football player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oklahoma City , Oklahoma , USA |