Just Found Out An Interesting Bit of Trivia

[Hostile]

In 1962 a World Record Time of 40 seconds was set in the 440 Yard Relay by the University of Oregon track team.

Two members of that 4 man World Record team later played for the Dallas Cowboys.

Mel Renfro & Mike Gaechter.

For those who do not know who Mike Gaechter was, he was a Strong Safety and truthfully one of the first in NFL History to be among the big hitters at that position.

Later in 1962 in a game against the Eagles, Mike Gaechter and Amos Marsh became the first teammates ever to score on 100+ yard plays in the same game. Gaechter a 100 yard Interception, I believe it is still the longest in Cowboys History. Marsh on a 101 yard Kickoff Return.

 

[cowboyjoe]

In 1962 a World Record Time of 40 seconds was set in the 440 Yard Relay by the University of Oregon track team.

Two members of that 4 man World Record team later played for the Dallas Cowboys.

Mel Renfro & Mike Gaechter.

For those who do not know who Mike Gaechter was, he was a Strong Safety and truthfully one of the first in NFL History to be among the big hitters at that position.

Later in 1962 in a game against the Eagles, Mike Gaechter and Amos Marsh became the first teammates ever to score on 100+ yard plays in the same game. Gaechter a 100 yard Interception, I believe it is still the longest in Cowboys History. Marsh on a 101 yard Kickoff Return.

He sure did, gaechter did, and mel was awesome for years, yep still the record in cowboys history, dennis thurman is next with 96 yard return;

it was sneaky the way the cowboys suckered other nfl teams on mel renfro do you remember that hostile

when john f kennedy got shot, renfro slammed his hand into a window, the cowboys put out info that the nerve in his hurt hand was damaged and he might not be able to play pro football, etc..

so we got mel renfro in the 2nd round;

which leads me to another question maybe you can answer hostile

remember when the cowboys were trying to decided between ware and merrimann? a few days after the draft, best i remember, in dmn sports, story came out that parcells or cowboys called merrimans high school coach and that coach told parcells and the cowboys something, because merrimann said that the cowboys told him they were going to draft him, but with the phone call cowboys changed their mind and went with ware

do you remember what article or where that was hostile?

i do know at high school, a kid that was well off but playing football, he picked at merrimann and merrimann told him to stop, and then told the coaches to get him to stop, they didnt, so merrimann blew up one day and beat the living daylights out of the kid

 

[Hostile]

Joe, a lesser known fact about the selection of Mel Renfro is that it is the longest time between picks ever. The Eagles took Jack Concannon a QB out of Boston College with the 16th pick.

6 and a half hours later the Cowboys finally chose Mel Renfro with the 17th pick. Before they would take him, they sent a Doctor to examine his hand. He was primarily a RB in college, but because of the nerve damage we made him a DB. Turned out to be a great move as he went on to a Hall of Fame career.

Gil Brandt says after that there was a time limit on how long you had to decide on a pick. The Mel Renfro rule you might say.

 

[Arch Stanton]

Joe, a lesser known fact about the selection of Mel Renfro is that it is the longest time between picks ever. The Eagles took Jack Concannon a QB out of Boston College with the 16th pick.

6 and a half hours later the Cowboys finally chose Mel Renfro with the 17th pick. Before they would take him, they sent a Doctor to examine his hand. He was primarily a RB in college, but because of the nerve damage we made him a DB. Turned out to be a great move as he went on to a Hall of Fame career.

Gil Brandt says after that there was a time limit on how long you had to decide on a pick. The Mel Renfro rule you might say.

Six and half hours would have given Mel plenty of time to analyse the previous picks.

 

[cowboyjoe]

Joe, a lesser known fact about the selection of Mel Renfro is that it is the longest time between picks ever. The Eagles took Jack Concannon a QB out of Boston College with the 16th pick.

6 and a half hours later the Cowboys finally chose Mel Renfro with the 17th pick. Before they would take him, they sent a Doctor to examine his hand. He was primarily a RB in college, but because of the nerve damage we made him a DB. Turned out to be a great move as he went on to a Hall of Fame career.

Gil Brandt says after that there was a time limit on how long you had to decide on a pick. The Mel Renfro rule you might say.

i thought there was alonger time limit for the draft, but i didnt think it was that long, i thought it was about 30 minutes, boy was i wrong


i did know about the hand though, and moving him to db, was a super move by us and to get it out there about his hand, so teams wouldnt take him and we did

do you still remember anything about the ware\merrimann issue where the cowboys talked to the high school coach about merrimann and told parcells something so the cowboys went with ware? Fuzzy was asking me about that, i remember it happening but forgot where i saw it

best i remember was in the dallas morning news sports section where they right up stories about the draft 2 to 3 days later, scouts and all stuff like that, but i did a search on it and cant find anything on it yet;

i still have my newspaper clippings from 4 years back, but i havethem out in boxes in garage, sewer backed up and have to put in new carpet, yuck

but working on my war room too