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1983 Dallas Cowboys Statistics
Team Record: 12-4
Finishing 2nd in the NFL's East Division of the National Football Conference
Postseason: 0-1 Lost Wild Card
Coach: Tom Landry (12-4)
Location: Dallas, Texas
1983 Dallas Cowboys Results
The Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League ended the 1983 season with a record of 12 wins and 4 losses, finishing second in the NFL's East Division of the National Football Conference. The team compiled a postseason mark of 0-1.
The Cowboys moved the ball well, scoring 479 points, and the defensive squad allowed 360. Danny White led the charge, passing for 3,980 yards. Ron Springs hauled in 73 passes, while Tony Hill accumulated 801 receiving yards.
Tony Dorsett ran for a team-best 1,321 yards for Dallas.
The larcenous defense created 48 turnovers. Dennis Thurman intercepted 6 opponent throws. Randy White topped the defensive unit with 12.5 quarterback sacks, topping a defense credited with 57 sacks.
Tom Landry coached the team. The 1983 Dallas Cowboys lost in the Wild Card.
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Passing:
Player | Att | Comp | Comp % | Yds | Yds/Att | TDs | TD % | Ints | Int % | Long | Sacked | Yds Lost | Rating |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Danny White | 533 | 334 | 62.7 | 3980 | 7.5 | 29 | 5.4 | 23 | 4.3 | 80 | 37 | 314 | 85.6 |
Gary Hogeboom | 17 | 11 | 64.7 | 161 | 9.5 | 1 | 5.9 | 1 | 5.9 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 90.6 |
Ron Springs | 2 | 1 | 50.0 | 15 | 7.5 | 1 | 50.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 114.6 |
Tony Dorsett | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39.6 |
Drew Pearson | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 100.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
Totals | 554 | 346 | 62.5 | 4156 | 7.5 | 31 | 5.6 | 25 | 4.5 | 80 | 37 | 314 |
Rushing:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tony Dorsett | 289 | 1321 | 4.6 | 77 | 8 |
Ron Springs | 149 | 541 | 3.6 | 19 | 7 |
Timmy Newsome | 44 | 185 | 4.2 | 20 | 2 |
Robert Newhouse | 9 | 34 | 3.8 | 8 | 0 |
Danny White | 18 | 31 | 1.7 | 22 | 4 |
Drew Pearson | 2 | 13 | 6.5 | 10 | 0 |
Tony Hill | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | 3 | 0 |
Butch Johnson | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Gary Hogeboom | 6 | -10 | -1.7 | -1 | 0 |
Totals | 519 | 2117 | 4.1 | 77 | 21 |
Receiving:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ron Springs | 73 | 589 | 8.1 | 80 | 1 |
Tony Hill | 49 | 801 | 16.3 | 75 | 7 |
Drew Pearson | 47 | 545 | 11.6 | 32 | 5 |
Doug Cosbie | 46 | 588 | 12.8 | 61 | 6 |
Butch Johnson | 41 | 561 | 13.7 | 46 | 3 |
Tony Dorsett | 40 | 287 | 7.2 | 24 | 1 |
Doug Donley | 18 | 370 | 20.6 | 47 | 2 |
Timmy Newsome | 18 | 250 | 13.9 | 52 | 4 |
Billy DuPree | 12 | 142 | 11.8 | 28 | 1 |
Danny White | 1 | 15 | 15.0 | 15 | 1 |
Tom Rafferty | 1 | 8 | 8.0 | 8 | 0 |
Totals | 346 | 4156 | 12.0 | 80 | 31 |
Kicking:
Player | X/CA | X/CM | X/CP % | FGA | FGM | FG % | Pts. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rafael Septien | 59 | 57 | 96.6 | 27 | 22 | 81.5 | 123 |
Totals | 59 | 57 | 96.6 | 27 | 22 | 81.5 | 123 |
Punting:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long |
---|---|---|---|---|
John Warren | 39 | 1551 | 39.8 | 54 |
Danny White | 38 | 1543 | 40.6 | 50 |
Jim Miller | 5 | 178 | 35.6 | 43 |
Totals | 82 | 3272 | 39.9 | 54 |
Punt Returns:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rod Hill | 30 | 232 | 7.7 | 37 | 0 |
Gary Allen | 9 | 153 | 17.0 | 68 | 1 |
Ron Fellows | 10 | 75 | 7.5 | 14 | 0 |
Doug Donley | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 |
Robert Newhouse | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 51 | 461 | 9.0 | 68 | 1 |
Kick Returns:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ron Fellows | 43 | 855 | 19.9 | 53 | 0 |
Rod Hill | 14 | 243 | 17.4 | 40 | 0 |
Gary Allen | 8 | 178 | 22.2 | 31 | 0 |
Timmy Newsome | 1 | 28 | 28.0 | 28 | 0 |
Chuck McSwain | 1 | 17 | 17.0 | 17 | 0 |
Doug Cosbie | 2 | 17 | 8.5 | 10 | 0 |
Ron Springs | 1 | 13 | 13.0 | 13 | 0 |
Bruce Huther | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 71 | 1351 | 19.0 | 53 | 0 |
Interceptions:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dennis Thurman | 6 | 49 | 8.2 | 34 | 0 |
Ron Fellows | 5 | 139 | 27.8 | 58 | 1 |
Michael Downs | 4 | 80 | 20.0 | 28 | 0 |
Everson Walls | 4 | 70 | 17.5 | 37 | 0 |
Dextor Clinkscale | 2 | 68 | 34.0 | 68 | 1 |
Rod Hill | 2 | 12 | 6.0 | 12 | 0 |
Bill Bates | 1 | 29 | 29.0 | 29 | 0 |
Too Jones | 1 | 12 | 12.0 | 12 | 0 |
Anthony Dickerson | 1 | 8 | 8.0 | 8 | 0 |
Bob Breunig | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 27 | 467 | 17.3 | 68 | 2 |
Sacks:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. |
---|---|---|---|
Randy White | 12.5 | 0.0 | |
Anthony Dickerson | 10.5 | 0.0 | |
Too Jones | 7.0 | 0.0 | |
Don Smerek | 6.0 | 0.0 | |
John Dutton | 4.5 | 0.0 | |
Bill Bates | 4.0 | 0.0 | |
Larry Bethea | 3.0 | 0.0 | |
Dextor Clinkscale | 2.0 | 0.0 | |
Jim Jeffcoat | 2.0 | 0.0 | |
Harvey Martin | 2.0 | 0.0 | |
Michael Downs | 1.5 | 0.0 | |
Dennis Thurman | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
Mike Hegman | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
Totals | 57.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
Defense and Fumbles:
Player | Tackle | Solo | Ast | Brup | Fum | FRec | FYds | FTD | FF |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bill Bates | 84 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Jim Jeffcoat | 3 | 3 | 0 | ||||||
Danny White | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Dextor Clinkscale | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Anthony Dickerson | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Ron Fellows | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Ron Springs | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Dennis Thurman | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
Rod Hill | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Too Jones | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Michael Downs | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 0 | |||
Bob Breunig | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Larry Bethea | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Herbert Scott | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Robert Newhouse | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Mike Hegman | 0 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 0 | ||||
Tony Dorsett | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Randy White | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
John Dutton | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Drew Pearson | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Tony Hill | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Totals | 87 | 87 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 35 | 19 | 3 | 0 |
Total Scoring:
Touchdowns | Other | Total | ||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Player | Rush | Rec | Punt | Kick | MFG | Int | Fum | Other | FG | X/C | Single | 2Pt | Saf | Points |
Rafael Septien | 22 | 57 | 0 | 123 | ||||||||||
Tony Dorsett | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 54 | ||||||||
Ron Springs | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48 | |||||||
Tony Hill | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | ||||||||
Doug Cosbie | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | ||||||||
Timmy Newsome | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | |||||||
Danny White | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | ||||||||
Drew Pearson | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | ||||||||
Butch Johnson | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | ||||||||
Doug Donley | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | ||||||||
Ron Fellows | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | ||||||
Dextor Clinkscale | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Dennis Thurman | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||||||
Gary Allen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||||||
Mike Hegman | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Michael Downs | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||||||
Billy DuPree | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Anthony Dickerson | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
Totals | 21 | 31 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 479 |