Don Talbert
| Don Talbert | |
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Position (s): Offensive tackle |
Jersey numbers: 71, 72 |
| born March 1, 1939 in Louisville , Mississippi | |
| Career information | |
| Active : 1962 - 1971 | |
| NFL Draft : 1961 / Round: 8 / Pick: 100 | |
| AFL Draft : 1962 / Round: 34 / Pick: 271 | |
| College : University of Texas at Austin | |
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| Career statistics | |
| Games | 103 |
| as a starter | 68 |
| Fumble secured | 3 |
| Stats at NFL.com | |
| Stats at pro-football-reference.com | |
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Don Larry Talbert (born March 1, 1939 in Louisville , Mississippi , USA ) is a former American American football player. He played as an offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) with the Dallas Cowboys , Atlanta Falcons and the New Orleans Saints .
Player career
College career
Don Talbert already played American football in high school , but was also active as a basketball player . In 1959 he received a scholarship from the University of Texas at Austin , where he played as an offensive tackle for the Texas Longhorns . In 1961 he and his team won the championship in the Southern Conference . That year he was also elected to the league selection and the All American . His brothers Charlie and Diron Talbert also studied at the University of Texas. Diron became a successful football player after graduating. He was a member of the Los Angeles Rams and Washington Redskins for 14 years .
Professional career
In 1962, Talbert was from the AFL settled Houston Oilers in the 34th round of 261 office drafted . However, he did not join the team from Houston , but signed a contract with the Dallas Cowboys, who were in the AFL's competitive league, the NFL, and who had drafted him in the eighth round in the previous year in 100 place. As a player on the offensive line, Talbert had the task of protecting the quarterbacks Don Meredith and Eddie LeBaron and blocking the way into the opposing end zone for his own running back .
After his rookie year with the Tom Landry coached team from Dallas , Talbert had to interrupt his career. He served as a lieutenant in the United States Military Police in the Vietnam War . In 1965 Talbert was able to continue his career. After that year the cowboys were ready to give it up. The Atlanta Falcons , a newly formed team, drew him in a supplemental draft. Although the later member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Norm Van Brocklin had taken over the coaching post from Norb Hecker during the 1968 season , the Falcons remained unsuccessful and gave Talbert to the New Orleans Saints trained by Tom Fears . For Talbert, however, this change was not associated with success, and the Saints could not establish themselves as a top team. In 1971 he switched back to the Cowboys, who had one of the best defenses in the NFL with players like Rayfield Wright , Blaine Nye or John Niland . They used him mainly as a substitute to protect quarterback Roger Staubach and to support the running game of running backs Calvin Hill and Duane Thomas . With his old team he achieved his greatest success in 1971. The Cowboys won eleven of 14 games in the regular season and thus moved into the play-offs . After a 14: 3 win over the San Francisco 49ers , his team managed a 24: 3 victory in Super Bowl VI against the Miami Dolphins, trained by Don Shula . For the next two years Talbert was only used by the Cowboys in the Practice Squad . In 1974 he moved to the Houston Texans / Shreveport Steamer in the World Football League . He ended his career after the season. In 1992, he was inducted into the University of Texas Hall of Honor from his college .
After the career
Don Talbert became a successful businessman in Houston after his career .
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
- Georg Becnel: When the Saints Came Marching in, What the New Orleans NFL Franchise Did Wrong (and Sometimes Right) in Its Expansion Years , AuthorHouse, 2009, ISBN 1-438-99187-8
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Talbert, Don |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Talbert, Don Larry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American football player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Louisville, Mississippi, USA |