1979 Dallas Cowboys

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Head Coach: *Tom Landry

To be listed, a player must have played at least one game for the team during this season.
* Hall of Fame
+ Primary starter
Starters are listed by position, beginning with primary starters and ending with non-starting depth. A player will be listed more than once if starting at mulitple positions during the season.

Pos		Player	GP	Exp	DOB	Ht	College
QB		Danny White	16	4	02/09/1952	' "	Arizona State
QB	*	Roger Staubach	16	11	02/05/1942	' "	Navy
QB		Glenn Carano	3	2	11/18/1955	' "	Nevada - Las Vegas
RB		Larry Brinson	14	3	06/06/1954	' "	Florida
RB		Ron Springs	16	R	11/04/1956	' "	Ohio State
RB	*	Tony Dorsett	14	3	04/07/1954	' "	Pittsburgh
RB		Robert Newhouse	14	8	01/09/1950	' "	Houston
RB		Scott Laidlaw	16	5	02/17/1953	' "	Stanford
RB/DB		Preston Pearson	14	13	01/17/1945	' "	Illinois
RB		Alois Blackwell	6	2	03/29/1969	' "	Houston
TE		Billy Joe DuPree	16	7	03/07/1950	' "	Michigan State
TE		Doug Cosbie	16	R	03/27/1956	' "	Santa Clara
TE/WR		Jay Saldi	16	4	10/08/1954	' "	South Carolina
WR		Tony Hill	16	3	06/23/1956	' "	Stanford
WR		Drew Pearson	15	7	01/12/1951	' "	Tulane
WR/DB		Wade Manning	9	1	07/25/1955	' "	Ohio State
WR		Butch Johnson	11	4	05/28/1954	' "	California - Riverside
T		Pat Donovan	16	5	07/01/1953	' "	Stanford
C/G		Robert Shaw	16	R	10/15/1956	' "	Tennessee
G		Herbert Scott	16	5	01/18/1953	' "	Virginia Union
C/G		Tom Rafferty	16	4	08/02/1954	' "	Penn State
G		Burton Lawless	15	5	11/01/1953	' "	Florida
T/TE	*	Rayfield Wright	16	13	08/23/1945	' "	Fort Valley State (GA)
C/G		John Fitzgerald	15	9	04/16/1948	' "	Boston College
T/C/G		Jim Cooper	15	3	09/28/1955	' "	Temple
T		Andy Frederick	16	3	07/25/1954	' "	New Mexico
DE/DT		Larry Cole	16	12	11/15/1946	' "	Hawaii
DE/DT/NT		Dave Stalls	16	3	09/19/1955	' "	Northern Colorado
DE		Harvey Martin	16	7	11/16/1950	' "	East Texas State
DT/LB/DE	*	Randy White	15	5	01/15/1953	' "	Maryland
DE/DT		Bruce Thornton	16	R	02/14/1958	' "	Illinois
DT/DE		John Dutton	8	6	02/06/1951	' "	Nebraska
DT/DE		Larry Bethea	16	2	07/21/1956	' "	Michigan State
LB		Mike Hegman	16	4	01/17/1953	' "	Tennessee State
LB		D. D. Lewis	16	11	10/16/1945	' "	Mississippi State
LB		Tom Henderson	11	5	03/01/1953	' "	Langston
LB		Bob Breunig	16	5	07/04/1953	' "	Arizona State
LB		Guy Brown	15	3	06/01/1955	' "	Houston
LB		Bruce Huther	16	3	07/23/1954	' "	New Hampshire
DB		Aaron Mitchell	16	R	12/15/1956	' "	Nevada - Las Vegas
DB		Cliff Harris	16	10	11/12/1948	' "	Ouachita Baptist
DB		Randy Hughes	15	5	04/03/1953	' "	Oklahoma
DB		Dennis Thurman	16	2	04/13/1956	' "	Southern California
DB/WR		Steve Wilson	16	1	08/24/1957	' "	Howard
DB		Benny Barnes	15	8	03/03/1951	' "	Stanford
DB		Aaron Kyle	16	4	04/06/1954	' "	Wyoming
K		Rafael Septien	16	3	12/12/1953	' "	Southwestern Louisiana

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