Two-time Super Bowl champion, former Cowboys star John Fitzgerald dead at 77

Former Dallas Cowboys halfway John Fitzgerald, a two-time Super Bowl champion, is dormant astatine 77.

The Cowboys' squad website announced helium died Tuesday morning. No origin of decease was given.

The Cowboys selected Fitzgerald successful the 4th circular retired of Boston College aft helium played connected some sides of the ball. He played some violative defender and antiaircraft tackle successful assemblage and was inducted into the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame successful 1982.

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John Fitzgerald of the Dallas Cowboys stands connected the tract aft Super Bowl X against the Pittsburgh Steelers successful Miami, Florida, connected Jan. 18, 1976. (Heinz Kluetmeier/Sports Illustrated)

When helium was a rookie, the Cowboys primitively had Fitzgerald lined up arsenic a antiaircraft tackle, and helium spent his rookie play connected the taxi squad. In 1971, helium moved to discourtesy and was a backup defender connected the team’s Super Bowl-winning squad.

In 1972, the squad moved him to center, wherever helium became a starter, and remained determination until helium retired. From 1973-80, Fitzgerald was the halfway for a Cowboys discourtesy that finished successful the 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 the Dallas Cowboys jog to the enactment of scrimmage during a crippled against the Chicago Bears astatine Soldier Field successful Chicago Sept. 16, 1973. (Diamond Images/Getty Images)

Fitzgerald was besides the focal constituent for caput manager Tom Landry’s reintroduction to the shotgun offense, having nary contented snapping the shot to Roger Staubach from a further distance. After the shotgun discourtesy was added, the Cowboys made the Super Bowl successful 3 retired of 4 seasons, including a 27-10 triumph implicit the Denver Broncos successful Super Bowl XII.

The Cowboys, successful Fitzgerald’s 12 seasons astatine center, experienced important success, reaching the 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 the Dallas Cowboys artifact antiaircraft linemen Steve Furness and L.C. Greenwood of the Pittsburgh Steelers during Super Bowl X astatine the Orange Bowl successful Miami, Fla. Jan. 18, 1976. The Steelers won 21–17 to assertion the Super Bowl title. (Kidwiler Collection/Diamond Images)

Fitzgerald retired successful 1982 aft being placed connected injured reserve anterior to the 1981 play with a genu injury.

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