Team Summary [+]
1980 Dallas Cowboys
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Record: 12-4-0, Finished 1st in NFC East Division
NFL Season Summary
Scored 454 points (28.4/g), 1st of 28 in the NFL.
Allowed 311 points (19.4/g), 13th.
Differential of 143 points (8.9/g), 2nd.
Expected W-L: 11.4-4.6.
Takeaway/Giveaway Differential +8 (0.5/g), 6th.
Simple Rating System: Total 8.0, Offense: 7.8, Defense: 0.1, SoS: -1.0, versus averages of 0.0.
Coached by Tom Landry(12-4-0)
Offensive Coordinator: Dan Reeves
Training Camp: California Lutheran College (Thousand Oaks, California)
Players[+]
- Pos · # · College
- Benny Barnes
lcb · #31 · Stanford
- Larry Bethea
dt · #76 · Michigan State
- Bob Breunig
MLB · #53 · Arizona State
- Guy Brown
lb · #59 · Houston
- Glenn Carano
qb · #18 · UNLV
- Dextor Clinkscale
db · #47 · So. Carolina St.
- Larry Cole
LDT · #63 · Air Force; Houston; Hawaii
- Jim Cooper
RT · #61 · Temple
- Doug Cosbie
te · #84 · Holy Cross; Santa Clara
- Anthony Dickerson
lb · #51 · SMU
- Pat Donovan
LT · #67 · Stanford
- Tony Dorsett
RB · #33 · Pittsburgh
- Billy Joe DuPree
TE · #89 · Michigan St.
- John Dutton
ldt · #78 · Nebraska
- John Fitzgerald
C · #62 · Boston College
- Andy Frederick
t · #71 · New Mexico
- Mike Hegman
LLB · #58 · Alabama A&M; Tennessee State
- Tony Hill
WR · #80 · Stanford
- Gary Hogeboom
qb · #14 · Central Michigan
- Randy Hughes
db · #42 · Oklahoma
- Eric Hurt
db · #40 · San Jose State
- Bruce Huther
lb · #57 · New Hampshire
- Butch Johnson
wr · #86 · California-Riverside
- James Jones
PR/KR · #23 · Mississippi State
- Too Tall Jones
LDE · #72 · Tennessee State
- D.D. Lewis
RLB · #50 · Mississippi State
- Harvey Martin
RDE · #79 · Texas A&M-Commerce
- Aaron Mitchell
RCB · #34 · Coll. Of the Canyons J.C.; Morris Brown; UNLV
- Robert Newhouse
FB · #44 · Houston
- Timmy Newsome
rb · #30 · Winston-Salem State
- Drew Pearson
WR · #88 · Tulsa
- Preston Pearson
rb · #26 · Illinois
- Kurt Petersen
rg · #65 · Missouri
- Tom Rafferty
RG · #64 · Penn State
- Bill Roe
lb · #56 · Colorado
- Jay Saldi
te · #87 · South Carolina
- Herbert Scott
LG · #68 · Virginia Union
- Rafael Septien
K · #1 · Louisiana-LaFayette
- Robert Shaw
c · #52 · Tennessee
- Roland Solomon
db · #46 · Utah
- Ron Springs
fb · #20 · Coffeyville CC; Ohio State
- Bruce Thornton
de · #77 · Illinois
- Dennis Thurman
FS · #32 · USC
- Charlie Waters
SS · #41 · Clemson
- Norm Wells
dt · #66 · Northwestern
- Danny White
QB/P · #11 · Arizona State
- Randy White
RDT · #54 · Maryland
- Steve Wilson
LCB · #45 · Howard
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