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  WVU :: Athletics
A terrific all-round athlete, Chuck Howley was a rare five-sport WVU letterwinner who went on to an all-pro career with the Dallas Cowboys in the NFL.
The Bears selected Howley in the first round of the 1958 draft (No. 11 overall pick), making him the third Mountaineer football player to be selected in the first round by an NFL organization.
Howley is also one of only three defensive players to ever win the Super Bowl award.
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 Super Bowl MVPs - SuperBowl.com - Official website of Super Bowl XLI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Dallas linebacker Chuck Howley became the first defensive player to be named Most Valuable Player in a Super Bowl.
But the honor had a hollow ring for Howley, who also became the first player from a losing team to be named MVP.
Howley intercepted two passes and receovered a fumble to win the honor, although his effort was overshadowed by Baltimore's eventual win.
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 WVU Varsity Club
Howley’s knee was so badly injured that doctors had to take ligaments from the upper part of his leg and staple them into his knee.
Howley not only had good size (6-feet-2, 225 pounds) but he was also one of the fastest players on the team running the 100-yard dash in 10.1 seconds.
Howley played left and middle guard as a sophomore in 1955, moved to center and linebacker as a junior in 1956, and finished his career back at guard in 1957.
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 Professional Football Researchers Association- Pro Football History
Chuck never tried football until his junior year at Warwood High School, but by the next season he was good enough to be named all-state tackle while playing for a team that could win only three games.
Chuck e had a lot to learn about playing linebacker, but at 6-2 and 225 pounds and with 10.1 hundred speed he had the size and mobility to develop.
Chuck played with the Cowboys through the end of the 1972 season, and at age 37 spent the 1973 season on the taxi squad.
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 Caller.com: Sports
Howley was a first round pick of the Chicago Bears in 1958 and was out of football with a knee injury less than two years later.
Howley leased a service station and was pumping gas for a living when Cowboys president Tex Schramm called him.
Howley owned a company for 25 years before selling it in 1992.
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 Super Bowl 6   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Weakside linebacker Chuck Howley, the man who always plays so well in championship games, believes this is the start of a belated dynasty, one that was predicted for Dallas as far back as 1967.
Howley, finishing his 13th season as the oldest Cowboy, was asked if he was not going to retire.
Chuck intercepted the ball, followed his blockers down the sidelines and would have gone all the way except he fell at the Miami 9-yard-line.
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 Encyclopedia: Chuck Howley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Chuck Howley was selected in the 1st round of the 1958 NFL draft by the Chicago Bears.
Chuck was a 5 sport letterman at the University of West Virginia.
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 NFL.com - NFL News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Howley has seven lakes, a gardenhouse and a bunkhouse.
I said to Chuck, "I always thought we paid well, but we must have really paid well for you to get this!" He bought this ranch 29 years ago and ended up staying in Dallas after his pro career was over and opened a uniform cleaning business.
The guy was Howley -- if it weren't for that, he probably wouldn't have that ranch of his.
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Coming to the Cowboys in a trade with the Chicago Bears in 1961 after once having given up on his NFL career, Chuck Howley became one of the greatest outside linebackers in Cowboys history and the only player to win Super Bowl MVP honors while on the losing team.
Howley's outstanding speed and agility enabled him to intercept 25 passes for 399 yards during his 14 seasons with the Cowboys while playing linebacker.
Howley was a five-sport letterman at West Virginia, including the Southern Conference one-meter diving champion, a sprinter on the track team, and excelled in gymnastics and wrestling.
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 Super Bowl V - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is also the only Super Bowl in which the Most Valuable Player Award was given to a member of the losing team: Cowboys Linebacker Chuck Howley, who caught 2 interceptions and recovered a fumble.
Behind him, linebackers Lee Roy Jordan and Chuck Howley excelled at stopping the run and pass coverage.
Then on the first play of the Colts' second drive, Dallas linebacker Chuck Howley intercepted a pass from Johnny Unitas and returned it 22 yards to Baltimore's 46-yard line.
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 Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Drafted: The Chicago Bears selected Chuck Howley in the first round of the 1958 NFL draft, but he retired after suffering what appeared to be a career-ending knee injury during the 1959 season.
Howley decided to make a comeback in 1961, and his rights were traded to the Dallas Cowboys for future draft picks.
When Chuck Howley retired in 1973, Tom Landry said “I don’t know that I’ve seen anybody better at linebacker than Howley.” A six-time All-Pro, Howley was the most valuable player in Super Bowl V. The Cowboys traded for Howley, who was drafted by Chicago in 1958.
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 Bigcat - NFL Championship History Part 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The 1967 rematch saw Dallas take a 17-14 lead but on a key 3rd down, Chuck Howley slipped and runner Chuck Mercein went 30 yds for GB, sparking the game winning drive and Bart starrs game winning goal line sneak.
Earl Morrall replaced Unitas and moved Baltimore however a Chuck Howley INT in the endzone ended a drive, a Milt Hinton fumble off a Howley strip out of the endzone ended another.
Howley was going in for a score but trips over his own feet, he slams his helmet down but staubach to Ditka TD clinches it.
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 How 'bout them Cryboys - 1968   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
A 44-yard run by linebacker Chuck Howley, who recovered a fumble, and two field goals by Mike Clark accounted for the scoring until Morton hit Walt Garrison in the final seconds.
Victory was sweet for Bill Nelson, the quarterback the Browns got from Pittsburgh last May. He had split the work with Kent Nix at Pittsburgh after frequent knee injuries and he sat behind Frank Ryan at Cleveland until Oct. 5.
Dallas, the team that led the league with 431 points, had to settle for two field goals by Mike Clark and a 44-yard touchdown run by linebacker Chuck Howley, who scooped up a fumble, until 20 seconds were left.
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 CardPlayer.com: Ruminations on the Super Bowl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Defenders such as Willie Wood and Herb Adderley of Green Bay, Chuck Howley of Dallas, Jake Scott of Miami, Willie Brown, Rod Martin, and Jack Squirek of Oakland, Barry Wilburn of Washington, and James Washington and Larry Brown of Dallas have all burned opposing QBs with memorable interceptions in Super Bowls.
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 Linebackers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Chuck thought he was through with football when the Cowboys called him away from his gas station in 1961.
Howley and Jordan got the press and the honors, but his teammates and opponents knew how good he was.
After a year on special teams, one in the military and another as an understudy he took over for Howley in '73 at weakside LB.
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 Blogging The Boys :: The forgotten Cowboys Super Bowl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
It was the first one played on artificial turf and the first with a defensive MVP, LB Chuck Howley.
Howley remains the only MVP to play for the losing team.
In one particular series of events, Dallas linebacker Chuck Howley intercepted a Johnny Unitas pass and returned it to the Baltimore 46-yard line.
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 Super Bowl 6   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Cowboys rushed for a record 252 yards and their defense limited the Dolphins to a low of 185 yards while not permitting a touchdown for the first time in Super Bowl history.
Dallas converted Chuck Howley's recovery of Larry Csonka's first fumble of the season into a 3-0 advantage and led at halftime 10-3.
Howley intercepted Bob Griese's pass at the 50 and returned it to the Miami 9 early in the fourth period, and three plays l ater Roger Staubach passed 7 yards to Mike Ditka for the final touchdown.
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 Chuck Howley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chuck Howley (born June 28, 1936 in Wheeling, West Virginia a Pittsburgh suburb) was an American football linebacker who spent most of his career with the Dallas Cowboys.
Howley was also named Super Bowl MVP for Super Bowl V, the first time that a defensive player received the honor and the first and so far only time a player from the losing team won the award.
This page was last modified 04:18, 6 February 2006.
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 The New York Times: This Day In Sports
Everyone agreedóVince Lombardi, the winning coach; Tom Landry, the losing coach; Chuck Howley, the Dallas linebacker who symbolized the losers; Bart Starr, the quarterback who scored the winning touchdown with 13 seconds to play.
The temperature was too cold for the "electric blanket"óthe heating system under the turfóto work and the field became progressively harder and harder.
The linebackers covering them, Dave Edward and Howley, who is an All- Pro performer, could not react swiftly enough to tackle the attackers in the open field.
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 'Best team of all time' - - The Journal News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Wyant and Howley were unable to play in the team's final two games, a close loss to Syracuse here and a road win at North Carolina State.
Corum was especially impressed by Howley, the only five-sport letterman in the school's history.
Howley and eight others from that 1955 team were drafted later.
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 MSNsportsNET -- West Virginia University Mountaineers
Injuries kept Chuck Howley from becoming one of college football’s most dominant defensive players.
Despite missing half his senior season in 1957 with a broken jaw, it was Howley’s play fighting through double and triple teams that helped West Virginia rank 19th in rushing defense (147.8) and produce shutout wins over Virginia Tech, William & Mary and Syracuse.
He was the 11th overall player drafted in 1958 by the Chicago Bears and after sitting out the entire 1960 season because of a serious knee injury, became an all-pro linebacker with the Dallas Cowboys in the 1960s.
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 Dallas Cowboys
- Former All-Pro linebacker Chuck Howley, a Cowboy from 1961 through 1973, became the fourth member of the Ring of Honor.
Howley was honored during ceremonies at halftime of the Detroit Lions game on Oct. 30.
Twelve straight winning seasons - Getting off to an 8-0 start, their best ever, the Cowboys rolled to a 12-2 record, the championship of the NFC East, and their 12th consecutive winning season.
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 Super Bowl V
Unitas pass to Bulaich intercepted at D 32, Howley 22 return (Unitas).
Morrall pass to Bulaich intercepted in end zone by Howley, touchback.
Morrall fumbled and recovered snap, pass to Jefferson overthrown, incomplete.
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 News Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Charles "Chuck" Howley, a former football player for West Virginia University and the Dallas Cowboys, has been named this years Outstanding Alumnus by the WVU School of Physical Education.
He was a six-time All-Pro and became the first player from a losing team to be named Super Bowl Most Valuable Player after the Cowboys fell to the Baltimore Colts 16-13 in Super Bowl V in 1971.
Today, Howley serves as president of Chuck Howley Uniform Rental Services Inc. in the Dallas and Fort Worth areas.
www.nis.wvu.edu /releases/PEHALL090800.htm   (545 words)

  
 Chuck Howley [Archive] - Dallas Cowboys Forums - CowboysZone.com
02-06-2006, 05:30 PM One thing I remember about that other than Howley's performance, was Duane Thomas fumbling the ball at the Baltimore 1 yd line, which would have given the Boys a good lead, Fitzgerald of the boys coming up with the ball, but the refs giving the ball to Baltimore.
Actually that was Center Dave Manders who had the ball the whole time but the Colts players were all yelling and pointing their way so the refs awarded them the ball before they even unpiled the players to see who actually had it.
Chuck Howley was a damn good player for a long long time.
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 Sports 2000 Players - Super Bowl MVPs
In a game marred with 10 turnovers between the two teams, it only made sense that the MVP was a defensive player from the losing team.
Both offenses in Super Bowl V played so poorly that the game's most impressive individual stat line belonged to Dallas linebacker Chuck Howley, who led all defenders with two interceptions returned for 22 yards.
Despite his efforts, Howley's play was not enough to save Dallas from its own misgivings and offensive futility.
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