"That game and then beating Terry Bradshaw (Louisiana Tech)."Īnd for the record, Fuhrer was credited with that sack on Staubach.Ĭowboy Stadium truly is a 'Field of Dreams' that has witnessed some of the greatest football players in the history of the game. "That was probably the best win of my career," said Fuhrer. The rest was all McNeese as the Cowboys scored 45 unanswered points while on defense, held the Goshawks and the Staubach offense to minus-37 yards rushing and 183 passing. "I don't know if I was credited with the sack, but I got that sack on Staubach," said Furher.Īnother score put the Cowboys up 9-0 before Staubach found the endzone on a short pass to make it a 9-7 first quarter lead. The Cowboys' defense struck first with a first quarter safety when Staubach fumbled the ball in the endzone. "He was probably the biggest name that ever had come into the stadium to play although there have been many others." "With Staubach coming to Lake Charles for the game, it did draw a good bit of publicity during the week," said longtime McNeese Sports Information Director Louis Bonnette. That '68 squad was an impressive one for the Goshawks as they rolled up a 6-0 record with wins over teams like Troy, Middle Tennessee, Youngstown State, Southeastern Louisiana and ULL (USL at the time).īut then the visit to Cowboy Stadium happened and the perfect season for Staubach and the military squad hit a brick wall, and the fact that a Heisman Trophy winner playing in the contest helped fuel the excitement. The Goshawk team was mostly made up of players who played college football prior to joining the military, players from schools such as Oklahoma, Virginia, UCLA, Illinois, Iowa and Clemson, to name a few.Īfter the 1967 season, Staubach attended the Dallas Cowboys' rookie training camp and returned to Pensacola for the 1968 season with the Cowboys' playbook. They fell to the Cleveland Browns, 31 to 20, in the 1968 Eastern Conference divisional game.
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They finished 1st in the Capitol Division and 1st in the Eastern Conference. The NAS Pensacola had one of the last military installation tackle football teams and played a regular schedule against mid-major teams like McNeese. Overview Stats Scores & Schedule Roster Splits History. Naval Academy, the Dallas Cowboys still took a risk and drafted Staubach in the 10 th round of the 1964 NFL Draft as well as the 16 th round by the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFL Draft.įollowing a year tour of duty in Vietnam, Staubach returned to the states and was stationed at the Naval Air Station Pensacola. Navy lost the national championship to Texas in that season's Cotton Bowl.ĭespite having a five-year obligation to the U.S. Staubach attended the Naval Academy from 1962-64 and won the 1963 Heisman Trophy along with the Maxwell Award and the Walter Camp Memorial Trophy while leading the Midshipmen to a 9-1 regular season record and a final ranking of No. I felt like I ran for miles chasing him around the field." "The '67 game was played in Pensacola and they beat us (14-7 in what was Staubach's first season with the Goshawks). "We played against him in 1967 and in '68," said Bob Fuhrer who played on both the offensive and defensive line for the Pokes throughout his McNeese Hall of Fame career.
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"It was the worst I'd been beaten in my football career." "It was like a nightmare," said Staubach about the manhandling by the Cowboy squad. The result was the worst beating the NFL Hall of Famer received in his playing career at any level, something he admitted as recent as two years ago in an interview he conducted, as the Cowboys plastered the previously unbeaten Naval Base team 54-13 on Oct.
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The Cowboys moved the ball well, scoring 384 points, and the rigid defensive squad. The team compiled a postseason mark of 2-1.
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