Walt Garrison
| Walt Garrison | |
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Position (s): Fullback |
Jersey number (s): 32 |
| born July 23, 1944 in Denton , Texas | |
| Career information | |
| Active : 1966 - 1974 | |
| NFL Draft : 1966 / Round: 5 / Pick: 79 | |
| College : Oklahoma State | |
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| Career statistics | |
| Games | 119 |
| as a starter | 73 |
| Touchdowns | 39 |
| Stats at NFL.com | |
| Stats at pro-football-reference.com | |
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Walter Benton "Walt" Garrison (born July 23, 1944 in Denton , Texas , USA ) is a former American American football player. He played as a fullback in the National Football League (NFL) with the Dallas Cowboys .
youth
Walt Garrison grew up in Lewisville , Texas. He attended high school there and played as a linebacker American football but was also active as a baseball player and basketball player. He also worked in a nut processing company. Its owner, Zan Burroughs, was impressed by Garrison and supported him in obtaining a scholarship to Oklahoma State University - Stillwater .
Player career
College career
In 1963, Walt Garrison moved to college , studied veterinary medicine, and played college football for the Oklahoma State Cowboys as a running back . In 1964 he was able to achieve a space gain of 730 yards, the best value in the Big Eight Conference , with which he was still above the performance of Gale Sayers , who played at the same time for the University of Kansas . His sporting achievements earned him various nominations for selection games.
Professional career
Walt Garrison was drawn 79th in the NFL Draft in the fifth round in 1966 by the Dallas Cowboys . At the same time, the Kansas City Chiefs from the AFL showed interest in him and pulled him in the AFL Draft in the 17th round in 151st place. Garrison opted for a professional contract with Tom Landry 's Dallas Cowboys. Garrison, who was also active as a rodeo rider , received a horse trailer for signing his contract .
In his first three years of play, Garrison was initially a substitute for Don Perkins and was mainly used in the special teams of the Cowboys as a kick returner . After Perkins ended his career in 1968, he was used in the offense of the team as a fullback. Along with the establishment of its own running game, he had the task of his quarterback to protect and his halfback Calvin Hill the way into the opposing end zone to free block .
In the game year 1970 Garrison was able to win his first league title with his team. 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 initially defeat the Detroit Lions 5-0. Garrison was able to achieve a space gain of 72 yards in the game with 17 runs. In the following NFC Championship Game against the San Francisco 49ers , the Cowboys prevailed with 17:10. Garrison managed to use a pass from Craig Morton for a touchdown. Despite a good performance by Garrison in Super Bowl V , his team had to admit defeat to the Baltimore Colts 16:13. Garrison had gained 65 yards in the game with 12 runs.
In 1971 Walter Garrison 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 Championship Game, in which he was able to achieve 14 runs to gain space of 51 yards and catch a pass from quarterback Roger Staubach , he was able to move into Super Bowl VI . In this game a 24-3 win against the Miami Dolphins succeeded . Garrison had contributed to this victory with a gain of 74 yards from 14 runs.
Walt Garrison played with the Cowboys until 1974 . He then ended his career.
Career as a rodeo rider
Garrison got approval from the Dallas Cowboys to work as a rodeo rider. However, Tom Landry insisted that he not do this activity immediately before a game. He therefore mainly worked as a rodeo rider after the end of the season. For his achievements as a rodeo rider, he was inducted into the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame in 2018 .
Honors
Walt Garrison played in a Pro Bowl , the season-end game of the best players in a game round. He is a member of the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame , the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, and the Oklahoma State Athletics Hall of Fame
After the career
Walt Garrison worked in the tobacco industry after his career . He founded his own entrepreneur, which produces barbecue sauces . He is socially committed. In 1988 he wrote his biography.
Works
- Walt Garrison: Once a Cowboy , Random House 1988, ISBN 0-394-57685-3
- Walt Garrison, Mark Stallard: Then Landry Said to Staubach ....: The Best Dallas Cowboys Stories Ever Told , Triumph Books 2007, ISBN 9781600780226
Web links
- Walt Garrison in his college's Athletics Hall of Fame
- Walt Garrison in college
- Walt Garrison's company
- Walt Garrison in the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame
- Walt Garrison in the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame
- Statistics in college
- Biography, interview from 2007
source
- Robert Allen, Mike Gundy: 100 Things Oklahoma State Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die , Triumph Books 2017, ISBN 1-633-19884-7
- 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
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Garrison, Walt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Garrison, Walter Benton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American football player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 23, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Denton , Texas, USA |