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	Tony Dorsett
		Tony's sleep was often dominated by nightmares that included death and a fate nearly as bad - life in the steel mill.
		Dorsett gained 1,034 yards as a junior in high school and his record of excellence continued unabated when he moved up a step to the University of Pittsburgh.
		Dorsett finished his season in Denver with a respectable 703 yards and five touchdowns rushing and definitely intended to return for the 1989 campaign.
	www.dallascowboysfanclub.com /history/dorsett.htm (2231 words)

	Member - Pro Football Hall of Fame
		Tony Dorsett, a 5-11, 192-pound running back from the University of Pittsburgh, already was a celebrity by the time he joined the Dallas Cowboys as their first-round draft pick in 1977.
		Dorsett rushed for 1,007 yards and 12 touchdowns and was a virtually unanimous choice for NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year honors.
		Dorsett, who was born April 7, 1954, in Rochester, Pennsylvania, rushed for more than 1,000 yards eight of his first nine seasons — the only miss was the strike-shortened 1982 campaign which, ironically, saw him win his only NFC rushing championship.
	www.profootballhof.com /hof/member.jsp?player_id=59 (397 words)

	Tony Dorsett had all the right moves and a brilliant NFL career - Pro Football Hall of Fame
		Tony Dorsett eludes a tackle from Steelers DB Tony Dungy.
		Tony not only passed Jim Brown in both categories but ranked second behind only Walter Payton at the time of his retirement early in 1989.
		Tony outgained Walker, 748 yards to 737, in 1986.
	www.profootballhof.com /history/release.jsp?release_id=789 (2224 words)

	Tony Dorsett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Anthony Drew Dorsett (born April 7, 1954 in the Pittsburgh suburb of Rochester, Pennsylvania) was an American football running back who was a star in college football and the NFL.
		Dorsett was a star running back at University of Pittsburgh and helped to lead them to a national title in 1976, also picking up the Heisman Trophy, the Maxwell Award and the Walter Camp Award while setting NCAA college records.
		In his NFL career, he rushed for 12,739 yards and 77 touchdowns and caught 398 passes for 3,554 yards and 13 touchdowns.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tony_Dorsett (239 words)

	CNNSI.com - College Football - Heisman Heroes - Suzuki presents Heisman Heroes: Tony Dorsett - Friday August 25, 2000 ...
		Dorsett led the nation in rushing with 1,586 yards as a skinny, 155-pound freshman, helping Pitt to a 6-4-1 record and a 1973 Fiesta Bowl berth.
		Dorsett's campaign began with a trip to Notre Dame, where the Irish coaches had let the grass grow in an effort to slow the guy who burned them for 303 yards a year before.
		Dorsett responded with 241 yards in the Panthers' victory over the Orangemen, eclipsing the NCAA career rushing record along the way (one of 15 NCAA marks he shattered at Pitt).
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /football/college/heisman/2000/dorsett_0825 (735 words)

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		Tony Dorsett arrived in Dallas in 1977 via a draft-day deal the Cowboys swung with the Seattle Seahawks for the sole intention of selecting the Heisman Trophy winner from the University of Pittsburgh.
		Dorsett received a handoff from quarterback Danny White and proceeded to run 99-yards for a touchdown, thus recording an unbreakable NFL record.
		Dorsett was the Heisman Trophy winner in 1976 and was the first Pitt football player to have his jersey retired.
	www.dallascowboys.com /history_roh_player.cfm?art=1 (498 words)

	Martin, Bettis ready to surpass Dorsett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tony Dorsett is about to be chased down and caught like no one could do on a football field, and he's more than happy because it involves a triple Pittsburgh connection.
		Dorsett, who lives in Dallas, where he played most of his NFL career, follows the Steelers and Bettis closely; he said the Cowboys are 1-A in his book and the Steelers 1-B. Bettis, a backup the first seven games, replaced an injured Duce Staley the past two games and rushed 62 times for 252 yards.
		Dorsett's record touchdown run of 99 yards came on Monday Night Football in 1983 and, as he said, that will be one record Bettis, Martin or anyone else can't surpass.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04322/413077.stm (904 words)

	AllRefer.com - Tony Dorsett (Sports, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Tony Dorsett (Anthony Drew Dorsett)[dOr´sut] Pronunciation Key, 1954–;, American football player, b.
		Rochester, Pa. The first running back to gain over 6,000 yards in Division I-A, he won the Heisman Trophy as the best college player of 1976 while leading the Univ. of Pittsburgh to a national championship.
		Dorsett then gained 12,739 yards (fourth-best all-time) in 12 professional seasons with the Dallas Cowboys.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/DorsettT.html (165 words)

	Tony Dorsett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		During his 11 seasons with Dallas, Dorsett was renowned for his speed on the field and his uncanny ability to find holes between defenders.
		Dorsett’s final year in pro football was with the Denver Broncos in 1989.
		Dorsett recognizes that his career in sports and the resulting celebrity status come with some responsibility.
	www.thomasfoods.com /tonydorsett.html (729 words)

	TSN Presents - Football's 100 Greatest Players
		Touchdown Tony was a yardage-eating machine for the Dallas Cowboys, living proof that good things can come in small packages.
		Dorsett, the 1976 Heisman Trophy winner who set an NCAA career rushing record at Pittsburgh, was blessed with remarkable balance and acceleration, qualities that allowed him to stop and start, dart and slash while searching for a hole.
		Dorsett expressed himself to the tune of 12,739 yards in regular-season play -- fourth on the all-time list through 1998 -- and 1,383 more as one of the top postseason rushers in history.
	archive.sportingnews.com /nfl/100/53.html (367 words)

	Is Emmitt a better runner than Tony Dorsett?
		Dorsett leads the Cowboys in most seasons leading the team in rushing, as well as consecutive seasons for leading the team in rushing with 10.
		Smith is right behind Dorsett with eight, and is well on his way to making it nine straight years at the completion of this season.
		Dorsett gained 206 yards in a game against Philadelphia in 1977 and tallied 183 against the New York Giants in 1980.
	www.texnews.com /1998/cowboys/jeff1109.html (668 words)

	Top 100 Players - 23 Tony Dorsett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dorsett was certainly not big as a 155-pound freshman, but he was lightning fast with 4.3 speed.
		Dorsett was convinced to stick with the program and the rest is history.
		As a bookend to their Pittsburgh careers, Dorsett and Pittsburgh beat the Bulldogs in the 1977 Sugar Bowl for the national title as TD ran for a Sugar Bowl record 202 yards.
	www.collegefootballnews.com /Top_100_Players/Top_100_Players_23_Tony_Dorsett.htm (530 words)

	Tony Dorsett Speaks - UrbanPlanet.org
		Dorsett had a few ideas, which we'll get to, but he wanted to touch on the reason for his visit to Pittsburgh among 16 cities on his current itinerary, which amounts to some promotional barnstorming for a program called Tackling Men's Health.
		Dorsett has avoided any big issues, and in fact has avoided much of the arthritic consequences of having spent 12 years in the violent cauldron of professional football without ever having built himself to more than 190 pounds.
		Dorsett's aware of the public debate between proponents of having the next coach be a "Pitt man" and those who judge that wholly unnecessary.
	www.urbanplanet.org /forums/index.php?showtopic=6487 (1341 words)

	Heisman.com - Heisman Trophy
		Tony equaled the record for most games gaining the Heisman Trophy; Dorsett beat Ricky Bell, his only serious competition, by an overwhelming 701-73 margin in first place votes.
		Tony was elected to the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame in 1994.
		Tony Dorsett's point total of 2,357 is second only to O.J. Simpson's 2,853 in 1968.
	www.heisman.com /winners/t-dorsett76.html (317 words)

	Tony Dorsett Jr. Follows in Father's Super Bowl Footsteps
		The name Dorsett is a familiar one for collectors who latched on to the running back's success during his National Football League career a generation ago.
		Tony Dorsett, who won a Heisman Trophy at Pitt and earned a Super Bowl championship with the Dallas Cowboys, was the focal point of a successful running game with "America's Team."
		Dorsett is on the spot this Sunday for the Tennessee Titans who will battle the St.Louis Rams in chilly Atlanta in what most considered one of the most unlikely matchups in the 33 previous Super Bowls.
	www.psacard.com /articles/article1941.chtml (938 words)

	Oakland street would be better venue for Dorsett Drive
		Dorsett, college football's best player in the mid-1970s, the running back who led the University of Pittsburgh to the national championship in 1976, never wanted the school to move its games off campus.
		I'm talking about that time in the spring of 1975 when Dorsett was thrown for a $1,145 loss as a result of scoring 99 overdue parking tickets.
		Pederson was a high school senior in Nebraska, and so by definition a college football fan, the year that Dorsett led the University of Pittsburgh to the national championship.
	www.postgazette.com /columnists/20011022brian1022p3.asp (582 words)

	WQED Multimedia: Pittsburgh Magazine
		When Tony Dorsett became old enough to drive a car, he took on the responsibility of picking his father up after work at the old Jones and Laughlin steel mill in Aliquippa.
		Dorsett, who graduated from Hopewell in 1973, played outside linebacker as a sophomore even though he weighed less than 150 pounds at the time.
		Dorsett, who remains fifth on the NFL’s all-time rushing list, gained more than 1,000 yards in eight different seasons and played in two Super Bowls and four Pro Bowls.
	www.wqed.org /mag/beaver/features/fall03_football_4.shtml (714 words)

	In the Spotlight: Tony Dorsett
		Butch Ross talks today about runs and interceptions Tony Dorsett made as a football player at Hopewell High School with the same enthusiasm as he did the day after they happened in the early 1970s.
		It's fitting since Dorsett, who went on to win the Heisman Trophy at Pitt and star for the Dallas Cowboys in the NFL, was a thrill show during his high school days.
		The reason Dorsett didn't carry the ball much as a sophomore was his size.
	www.post-gazette.com /sports/pitt/20010812dorsett0812p3.asp (720 words)

	Dorsett, Tony -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Feared by opposing defenses but popular with fans, U.S. football player Tony Dorsett was widely considered one of the best running backs in the sport's history.
		The Antoinette Perry Memorial Awards, commonly known as the Tonys, are presented annually by the American Theatre Wing for outstanding contributions to theater in the United States.
		For half a century, Tony Bennett's smooth, rich voice made him one of the most successful and durable performers in the history of American entertainment.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9311060?tocId=9311060 (666 words)

	IGN: Tony Dorsett Interview
		Tony Dorsett played 11 seasons in Dallas winning a Super Bowl, before ending up in the Hall of Fame.
		Tony Dorsett: Not really man. Guys are a little faster, and I saw the evolution of the game.
		Tony Dorsett: I really don't know who was the hardest hitter, but the guy that hit me the hardest was a guy named Charlie Davis who played for the old St. Louis Cardinals.
	sports.ign.com /articles/572/572037p1.html (793 words)

	SoonerFans.com Message Boards - Picture of hit Scott Hill on Tony Dorsett??
		Tony Dorsett left the game after that hit and I don't think he returned.
		As he cleared the blocker, he hit Dorsett sideways as if he were blocking him but the hit was so high that the centrifical force simply thrust Dorsett's feet and legs straight up and the back of his head slammed into the turf.
		After the picture was taken, I approached Dorsett, introduced myself, and extolled his virtues as a great college and pro running back whom I had seen many times in person but I went on to say that I was there when he got the SH-- knocked out of him on Owen Field.
	www.soonerfans.com /forums/showthread.php?t=8961 (1036 words)

	ESPN.com: NFL - Conversation with Vince Evans, Tony Dorsett and Mike Ditka
		Dorsett: First of all, the great competitor that Walter was, I've never seen a guy, from a running back position, run the ball in a manner in which Walter ran the ball.
		Dorsett: Payback is a "B." You know, Walter Payton was always a true champion.
		Walter Payton had a lot to do with Tony Dorsett being in the Hall of Fame.
	espn.starwave.com /nfl/s/payton.html (2521 words)

	Pro Football Hall of Famer Tony Dorsett Teams With Mike Ditka on 'Tackling Men's Health' Gridiron
		Dorsett, like Ditka, is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh.
		Dorsett won the Heisman Trophy as the nation's most outstanding college player in 1976 and was the first player chosen in the 1977 NFL draft by the Dallas Cowboys.
		Dorsett was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, National Football Foundation, and College Football Hall of Fame in 1994.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-14-2004/0002249972&EDATE= (1062 words)

	Ricky Williams closes in on Tony Dorsett
		Tony Dorsett came to the University of Texas' Memorial Stadium that afternoon to watch his son, Anthony, play for Pitt.
		Contrast that to Dorsett the elder, who carried 26 times for 101 yards in his Panthers debut against Georgia 22 years and one day before that 1995 Texas-Pitt game, and maintained a consistent pace his entire four years as the featured tailback.
		I remember going to a luncheon at the Sun Bowl - you could tell who Tony Dorsett was by the way he carried himself; he had a special air.
	www.texnews.com /1998/texsports/rick1126.html (2019 words)

	DLD 114-12 - EQUALNET HIRES TONY DORSETT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This relationship is indicative of Equalnet's commitment to becoming a noticeable force in the highly competitive telecommunications industry,'' Mitchell H. Bodian, Equalnet's president and chief executive officer, said.
		Bodian said the agreement with Dorsett will entail him playing an essential role in a variety of upcoming sales and marketing endeavors designed to promote Equalnet's growth throughout the United States.
		Dorsett stated that he is excited to be a part of the Equalnet team.
	www.thedigest.com /more/114-12.html (294 words)

	Tony Dorsett
		Dorsett piled up some incredible numbers as a college and professional running back.
		He was the first player in NCAA history to rush for more than 1,000 yards in each of four seasons at the University of Pittsburgh, where he gained a record 6,082 yards an more...
		Tony Dorsett, Frank Gifford, Jack Ham and John Henry Johnson also express interest.
	www.autographedtoyou.com /Tony-Dorsett.htm (79 words)

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