The NFL Network is showing the NFC championship game from January of 1982, which featured the great play from Joe Montana to Dwight Clark to win it for the 49ers. The 49ers started 10 White players in that game, the Cowboys 11.
Both teams featured all-White o-lines. The appropriately named QB Danny White was the other White starter on offense for Dallas. On their 4-3 defense the Cowboys hada Snow Patrol at LB, Charlie Waters at safety and the great Randy White on the line. John Dutton, another excellent lineman, was injured and replaced by a black, otherwise Dallas would have started a majority White defense and a majority of White starters (12 out of 22).
The 49ers had one White lineman and 2 White LBs on defense. In addition to Clark, another White receiver, Mike Schumann, was playing a lot though he wasn't in the starting lineup. Even though he was split wide, as soon as he made his first catch color manHank Stramquickly identified him as a "possession receiver." Later in the game, Stram said that Clark "is faster than people think" then in the very next sentence called him too a "possession receiver."
RB Bill Ring, then a rookie,received a fair amount of touches during the game and looked good.
Offensive lines were roughly 80 percent White then, and the average defense still had 3 or 4 Whites. But the introduction of coal black defenses was just around the corner and a steady trickle of black o-linemen (now a flood) soon began cutting into that long-time White stronghold. Dwight Clark was one of the last White stars at WR; by the mid-'80s the template of the Caste System waspretty much in place. Edited by: Don Wassall
Both teams featured all-White o-lines. The appropriately named QB Danny White was the other White starter on offense for Dallas. On their 4-3 defense the Cowboys hada Snow Patrol at LB, Charlie Waters at safety and the great Randy White on the line. John Dutton, another excellent lineman, was injured and replaced by a black, otherwise Dallas would have started a majority White defense and a majority of White starters (12 out of 22).
The 49ers had one White lineman and 2 White LBs on defense. In addition to Clark, another White receiver, Mike Schumann, was playing a lot though he wasn't in the starting lineup. Even though he was split wide, as soon as he made his first catch color manHank Stramquickly identified him as a "possession receiver." Later in the game, Stram said that Clark "is faster than people think" then in the very next sentence called him too a "possession receiver."
RB Bill Ring, then a rookie,received a fair amount of touches during the game and looked good.
Offensive lines were roughly 80 percent White then, and the average defense still had 3 or 4 Whites. But the introduction of coal black defenses was just around the corner and a steady trickle of black o-linemen (now a flood) soon began cutting into that long-time White stronghold. Dwight Clark was one of the last White stars at WR; by the mid-'80s the template of the Caste System waspretty much in place. Edited by: Don Wassall
