The Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor

September 11th, 2010  |  Published in Halls of Fame, New in the Gallery, Uniforms  |  5 Comments

1962 Topps Don Perkins rookie football cardThis morning I added the ability to search the Vintage Football Card Gallery for members of the Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor. Just go to the Advanced Search page, choose Cowboys Ring of Honor in one of the “Honor” menus, and hit the Search button.

Pictured here is one member of the Ring, Don Perkins, on his 1962 Topps rookie card. He’s wearing the Cowboys’ first home jersey, my all-time favorite over all the NFL teams. He doesn’t appear to be wearing it in the black-and-white inset photo, though, so I wonder if that is a college photo. Or maybe it’s not even him: on some 1962 cards, Topps pictured a different player in the inset photo, sometimes altering the image to look like the player on the card. For examples of that, see my earlier blog article on the subject.

Looking through the cards I have of members of the Cowboys Ring of Honor, it’s striking that there are no cards of players who had moved on to different teams. It is possible that I don’t have all of the players’ cards, but the impression I get is that the Cowboys’ best players stayed with the Cowboys.

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  1. Fred Goodwin says:

    September 12th, 2010 at 10:25 AM (#)

    Of the members of the ROH, only Tony Dorsett (Denver) and Bob Hayes (SF 49ers) moved on to play for a different team.

    But those moves came at the end of their careers and as far as I know, they did not appear in a Topps card of the other teams before they retired.

  2. Bobby Arnold says:

    September 12th, 2010 at 11:13 AM (#)

    Fred:
    What about Emmitt Smith he went to Arizona?

  3. Bobby Arnold says:

    September 12th, 2010 at 11:16 AM (#)

    also Tom Landry played and coached for the NY Giants and Tex Schramm worked for the Los Angeles Rams before the Cowboys

  4. nearmint says:

    September 12th, 2010 at 11:29 AM (#)

    Thanks for the info, Fred. It’s remarkable how the great players stayed with the team, and it had to be a factor in the team’s success.

    Bobby, you’re right about the early years of Landry and Schramm. But it seems that once talented people joined the Cowboys, they usually stayed for the rest of their careers.

  5. Don Meredith, Cowboys Quarterback | Nearmint's Vintage Football Card Blog says:

    December 6th, 2010 at 8:51 AM (#)

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