Rodney Wallace (American Football Player)

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Rodney Wallace
Position (s):
Offensive Tackle / Guard 		Jersey number (s):
71
born on February 10, 1949 in Pueblo, Colorado
died on July 21, 2013 in Centennial, Colorado
Career information
Active : 1971 - 1974
NFL Draft : 1971 / Round: 10 / Pick: 259
College : University of New Mexico
Teams

Career statistics
Games     37
as a starter     4th
Fumble secured     1
Stats at pro-football-reference.com
Career highlights and awards

Rodney Allan Wallace (born February 10, 1949 in Pueblo , Colorado , USA - † July 21, 2013 in Centennial , Colorado) was an American American football player. He played, among other things, as a guard in the National Football League (NFL) with the Dallas Cowboys .

Player career

Rodney Wallace attended high school in his hometown . Even at school he was active as a football player. After graduating from school, he received a scholarship to the University of New Mexico , where he played as a defensive tackle college football . In 1971 he was selected by the by Tom Landry assisted Dallas Cowboys in the tenth round at the 259th spot drafted . He was retrained by the Cowboys and from then on played in the offensive line , where he was mainly used as a substitute player. Under the leadership of his quarterbacks Craig Morton and Roger Staubach , he achieved his greatest success with the team from Dallas . The Cowboys won eleven of 14 games in the regular season and moved into the play-offs , where they first met the Minnesota Vikings , who were beaten by 20:12. After a 14-3 victory over the San Francisco 49ers in the subsequent NFC Championship Game , his team managed a 24-3 victory in Super Bowl VI against the Miami Dolphins, trained by Don Shula .

Wallace ended his career with injury problems after the 1974 season and worked in the pharmaceutical industry from then on.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual statistics of the cowboys 1971
  2. ↑ Statistics play-off game Dallas Cowboys vs. Minnesota Vikings 1971
  3. ↑ Statistics NFC endgame 1971
  4. ↑ Statistics Super Bowl VI

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
Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl VI Champions


10 Ron Widby  | 12 Roger Staubach ( MVP )  | 14 Craig Morton  | 15 Toni Fritsch  | 19 Lance Alworth  | 20 Mel Renfro  | 22 Bob Hayes  | 23 Margene Adkins  | 26 Herb Adderley  | 30 Dan Reeves  | 31 Gloster Richardson  | 32 Walt Garrison  | 33 Duane Thomas  | 34 Cornell Green  | 35 Calvin Hill  | 36 Joe Williams  | 37 Isaac Thomas  | 41 Charlie Waters  | 42 Claxton Welch  | 43 Cliff Harris  | 46 Mark Washington  | 50 DD Lewis  | 51 Dave Manders  | 52 Dave Edwards  | 54 Chuck Howley  | 55 Lee Roy Jordan  | 56 Tom Stincic  | 60 Lee Roy Caffey  | 61 Blaine Nye  | 62 John Fitzgerald  | 63 Larry Cole  | 64 Tony Liscio  | 66 George Andrie  | 67 Pat Toomay  | 70 Rayfield Wright  | 71 Rodney Wallace  | 72 Don Talbert  | 73 Ralph Neely  | 74 Bob Lilly  | 75 Jethro Pugh  | 76 John Niland  | 77 Bill Gregory  | 79 Forrest Gregg  | 83 Mike Clark  | 85 Tody Smith  | 87 Billy Truax  | 89 Mike Ditka  | Head Coach: Tom Landry  | Coaches: Ermal Allen  | Bobby Franklin  | Jim Myers  | Dan Reeves  | Ray Renfro  | Ernie Stautner  | Jerry Tubbs

personal data
SURNAME Wallace, Rodney
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wallace, Rodney Allan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American football player
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Pueblo, Colorado, USA
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 2013
Place of death Centennial , Colorado, USA