Tex Schramm
Texas Earnest Schramm, Junior (born June 2, 1920 in San Gabriel , California , † July 15, 2003 , Dallas , Texas ) was an American sports journalist , sports official and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys .
career
Before the Dallas Cowboys
Schramm studied journalism at the University of Texas . From 1947 to 1956 he was employed by the management of the Los Angeles Rams , where he was responsible for public relations. In 1957 he worked for the American television station CBS . At the suggestion of Schramm, CBS significantly expanded coverage of the 1960 Winter Olympics from Squaw Valley .
Dallas Cowboys
In 1960 the National Football League (NFL) expanded. For 600,000 dollars a has franchise to two businessmen awarded from Texas, which for the NFL in Dallas - the Dallas Cowboys - settled. The cowboys had competition in their own town. Until 1963 the Dallas Texans , a team of the AFL founded in 1960 , played in the immediate vicinity until this team moved to Kansas City . Tex Schramm was appointed General Manager of the Cowboys, Tom Landry became Head Coach . The first year of the Cowboys game was catastrophic, no game could be won. In the course of the following years, Schramm and Landry were able to build the team into a top team, which was quickly nicknamed " America's Team ". In 1966 he was one of the protagonists for the cooperation between the NFL and the rival league AFL, which initially led to a joint final, the AFL-NFL World Championship Game, and then in 1970 ended in a merger of the two leagues. Schramm was also involved in the further development of the rules of the NFL.
During the Tex Schramm era, the Cowboys entered the Super Bowl five times . The Super Bowl VI and the Super Bowl XII could each be won. The Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor , a band that ran around Texas Stadium and on which the Cowboys honored particularly deserving players, was introduced by him. The Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders can also be traced back to an idea by Schramm.
After Jerry Jones bought the Cowboys in 1989, he dismissed the team's long-time coach, Tom Landry. Schramm resigned from his position angry about this decision.
After the Dallas Cowboys
In 1990 Schramm became the first president of the World League of American Football . Schramm was married and had three daughters. He is buried in Restland Memorial Park in Dallas.
Honors
Schramm has been a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame since 2003 and is a member of the Texas Sports Hall of Fame . He is honored at the Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor. The admission took place posthumously in 2003 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Work of Schramm at CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System)
- ↑ Founding history
- ↑ Football rules that Schramm drove ( Memento from October 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Web links
- Schramm in the Pro Football Hall of Fame
- Tex Schramm's grave in the Find a Grave database
- Short biography ( Memento from December 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- Tex Schramm with the Dallas Cowboys
- Tex Schramm in the Texas Sports Hall of Fame
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 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schramm, Tex |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schramm, Texas Earnest (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American football official, journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 2, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Gabriel , California , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 15, 2003 |
| Place of death | Dallas , Texas , United States |