Jethro Pugh.....good story FWST

[poke]

i enjoyed reading this..........

http://www.star-telegram.com/sports/story/647163.html

 

[big dog cowboy]

Thank you very much for that. Us "old school" fans appreciate reading stuff like that about our heros from back in the day. Pugh was always one of my favorites. I just wish we would have won SB XIII.

 

[CrazyCowboy]

Thank you very much for that. Us "old school" fans appreciate reading stuff like that about our heros from back in the day. Pugh was always one of my favorites. I just wish we would have won SB XIII.

i agree #75 always clogged the middle and provided a toughness to our team

 

[THUMPER]

Great story about a guy who was one of my all-time favorite players (he didn't make my "team" in the other thread because Bob Lilly and Randy White were ahead of him). He was a great player who never received the credit or recognition due him.

I have seen some of his sack numbers posted a few times for certain years but I cannot find a source for them anywhere. I would love to find a source that shows the sack numbers for our late 60s - early 70s teams. Our defense routinely was at the top of the league in sacks during that era but individual sacks were not an official stat back then.


One correction to the story though...

Smart move. Pugh went on to become an integral part of the Cowboys’ original Doomsday Defense: LE Larry Cole, LT Pugh, RT Bob Lilly, RE George Andrie.

Larry Cole was not the LE starter on the "original" Doomsday defense, that would have been Willie Townes. Cole wasn't even with the Cowboys until 1968.

 

[PosterChild]

I was just recently commenting about Jethro Pugh here on some thread...he will always be underrated- and usually associated with one unfortunate icy memory- due to higher profile teammates right next to him but his work in the trenches was invaluable to the success of the Cowboys for a long time. He's way high on my favorites list...And I wasn't aware of his thriving airport gift shops biz. Always encouraging to hear of former Cowboys making good after football. We'll never hear these success stories on espn!

A truly good read- thanks for posting.

 

[THUMPER]

I was just recently commenting about Jethro Pugh here on some thread...he will always be underrated- and usually associated with one unfortunate icy memory- due to higher profile teammates right next to him but his work in the trenches was invaluable to the success of the Cowboys for a long time. He's way high on my favorites list...And I wasn't aware of his thriving airport gift shops biz. Always encouraging to hear of former Cowboys making good after football. We'll never hear these success stories on espn!

A truly good read- thanks for posting.

The thing about that play in the "Ice Bowl" is that it wasn't Pugh who blew the play but Lee Roy Jordan. When you watch it from the end-zone view you can see Jordan completely misread the play and go to his right instead of to his left where Starr came over. I can only assume that Lee Roy was not expecting a run and was looking to shoot the gap he saw on the right.

Jethro was double-teamed on the play (by Bowman & Kramer) and it was the MLB's responsibility to fill the gap, but Jordan read it wrong and we lost the game because of it.

 

[PosterChild]

The thing about that play in the "Ice Bowl" is that it wasn't Pugh who blew the play but Lee Roy Jordan. When you watch it from the end-zone view you can see Jordan completely misread the play and go to his right instead of to his left where Starr came over. I can only assume that Lee Roy was not expecting a run and was looking to shoot the gap he saw on the right.

Jethro was double-teamed on the play (by Bowman & Kramer) and it was the MLB's responsibility to fill the gap, but Jordan read it wrong and we lost the game because of it.

I know. I've seen some analysis of the play with the footage which reached the same conclusion, but for some reason Pugh gets sacked with responsibility on the thing.

 

[burmafrd]

Looking back on it the Boys really should have figured that the play would go at Pugh since Lilly was such a stone wall. The Packers by that time no longer had Taylor and had no one who was a real short yardage back. So a sneak should have been the most expected play and going over PUgh the most likely route.

 

[THUMPER]

Looking back on it the Boys really should have figured that the play would go at Pugh since Lilly was such a stone wall. The Packers by that time no longer had Taylor and had no one who was a real short yardage back. So a sneak should have been the most expected play and going over PUgh the most likely route.

Actually, a sneak was a crazy play to call and no one expected it. The Packers were only down by 3 at the time so a pass would have made a lot more sense in that if it were incomplete, they could have kicked a FG and sent the game into OT. If Starr wouldn't have made it across they would have lost the game. It was a HUGE gamble by Lombardi and Starr and they were lucky it worked out.

One other point, the play was actually called for RB Chuck Mercein to carry the ball but Starr decided he would have better traction and allow the Cowboys less time to react if he kept it. As it turned out he was right but if he would have slipped or Lee Roy would have read the play correctly then history would have a very different viewpoint of Lombardi, Starr, the Packers and the Cowboys.

 

[bbgun]

If I'm not mistaken, one of their o-linemen (Kramer?) said that when they studied film, they noticed that Pugh had a tendency to play "too high/upright" on goal-line plays, so they went in his direction. Of course, none of this detracts from a fine career.

http://img257.*************/img257/6303/1972qk3.jpg

 

[THUMPER]

If I'm not mistaken, one of their o-linemen (Kramer?) said that when they studied film, they noticed that Pugh had a tendency to play "too high/upright" on goal-line plays, so they went in his direction. Of course, none of this detracts from a fine career.

http://img257.*************/img257/6303/1972qk3.jpg

Nice shot of Pugh hitting Billy Kilmer!

 

[bbgun]

Nice shot of Pugh hitting Billy Kilmer!

Thanks. Even in defeat, it's a nice pic. If you ask me, the miracle comeback in Frisco drained all the life from the team. They had nothing left for the Skins.

 

[rickster14]

The play should never happened. Kramer jumped before the snap.

 

[PosterChild]

The play should never happened. Kramer jumped before the snap.

I remember maybe 4 0r 5 yrs ago Kramer unapologetically admitted to that fact, too, with a wink and a smile. He's a character.

 

[trueblue1687]

Thanks. What a fantastic story. I always like the "where are they now" stories.