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Former Dallas Cowboys halfway John Fitzgerald, a two-time Super Bowl champion, is dormant astatine 77.
The Cowboys' squad website announced he died Tuesday morning. No origin of decease was given.
The Cowboys selected Fitzgerald successful nan 4th information retired of Boston College aft he played connected some sides of nan ball. He played some violative defender and protect tackle successful assemblage and was inducted into nan school’s Athletic Hall of Fame successful 1982.
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John Fitzgerald of nan Dallas Cowboys stands connected nan section aft Super Bowl X against nan Pittsburgh Steelers successful Miami, Florida, connected Jan. 18, 1976. (Heinz Kluetmeier/Sports Illustrated)
When he was a rookie, nan Cowboys primitively had Fitzgerald lined up arsenic a protect tackle, and he spent his rookie play connected nan taxi squad. In 1971, he moved to discourtesy and was a backup defender connected nan team’s Super Bowl-winning squad.
In 1972, nan squad moved him to center, wherever he became a starter, and remained location until he retired. From 1973-80, Fitzgerald was nan halfway for a Cowboys discourtesy that vanished successful nan apical 10 successful full yards successful each of those 8 seasons.
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Offensive linemen Rayfield Wright, Blaine Nye, John Fitzgerald and John Niland of nan Dallas Cowboys jog to nan statement of scrimmage during a crippled against nan Chicago Bears astatine Soldier Field successful Chicago Sept. 16, 1973. (Diamond Images/Getty Images)
Fitzgerald was besides nan focal constituent for caput coach Tom Landry’s reintroduction to nan shotgun offense, having nary rumor snapping nan shot to Roger Staubach from a further distance. After nan shotgun discourtesy was added, nan Cowboys made nan Super Bowl successful 3 retired of 4 seasons, including a 27-10 triumph complete nan Denver Broncos successful Super Bowl XII.
The Cowboys, successful Fitzgerald’s 12 seasons astatine center, knowledgeable important success, reaching nan playoffs 11 times, making 9 NFC title games and 5 Super Bowl appearances, winning two.
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Offensive linemen Rayfield Wright and John Fitzgerald of nan Dallas Cowboys artifact protect linemen Steve Furness and L.C. Greenwood of nan Pittsburgh Steelers during Super Bowl X astatine nan Orange Bowl successful Miami, Fla. Jan. 18, 1976. The Steelers won 21–17 to declare nan Super Bowl title. (Kidwiler Collection/Diamond Images)
Fitzgerald retired successful 1982 aft being placed connected injured reserve anterior to nan 1981 play pinch a knee injury.
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