Sept. 27, 1964 - In one of the greatest goal line stands in the club’s history, the Steelers smothered nine Dallas Cowboy plays inside the seven-yard line in the final minutes of the game and held on to nip the Texans, 23-17, this afternoon at Pitt Stadium.
A penalty gave the losers four extra chances without success.
Veteran John Roach started and finished for the Cowboys, but Don Meredith (pictured) did most of the quarterbacking. He passed two yards to Frank Clarke and one TD and ran two yards himself for the other.
The victory was the second straight for the Steelers against one loss. Quarterback Ed Brown was superb, flinging TD passes of 34 yards to Gary Ballman, 21 yards to Jim Kelly, and two yards to Phil King.
The 35-year-old QB didn’t have a single toss intercepted while the locals were picking off two, one by Clendon Thomas and the other by Ed Holler.
Buddy Dial, the great receiver traded away to the losers in the ill-fated Scott Appleton deal, finally made his debut as a Cowpoke late in the second quarter. He seemed destined to make coach Buddy Parker regret his off-season move late in the game, catching two first-down passes for 22 yards and also getting an interference call in his favor on the local one-yard line.
The fates shifted, though, when the Steller defense saved the game, as linebacker Bill Saul batted away a fourth-down pass intended for Dial in the end zone. Buddy sprawled in a heap, was carried from the field on a stretcher and taken to Presbyterian Hospital in an ambulance, badly shaken up.
Like last week’s win over the Giants, the enemy won most of the statistics, but the Steelers pocketed the decision.
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