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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 12 Jun 1981, p. 50

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PAOSSS sports file Roger Staubach inks new contract New York--Roger Staubach, quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys for 11 years, and the all-time leading passer in National Football League history, has agreed to a multi-year contract as a football analyst for CBS Sports. Staubach joined CBS Sports last season as a football analyst following his retirement from the Cowboys after the 1979 season. "We are very pleased to have Staubach returning to CBS Sports," said Van Gordon Sauter, President of CBS Sports. "Although a rookie in our business last year, he performed well under all conditions. His insight into the game of football added tremendously to our broadcast coverage of the NFL." Staubach first gained nationapattention as a superb player in 1962 when he became the starting quarter­ back after the season began at Navy, and played brilliantly in an easy victory over Army on a game broad­ cast nationally by CBS Sports. Ironjcally, in the following year's Army-Navy game, Staubach played an integral part in the story of the first "instant replay" on television. Because Staubach possessed the uncanny ability to elude the pass rush, the CBS Sports production crew decided to record the action to replay following one of his scrambles. However, it was the Army quarterback, Rollie Stichweh, who wound up appearing in the first "in­ stant replay." The date was December 7, 1963. And although Staubach won the Heisman Trophy that year, Navy lost to Texas, 28-6, in the Cotton Bowl for the 1963 national title. Staubach, 39, led the Dallas Cowboys to four Super Bowls, winning two--in January 1972, over Miami, 24-3, when he was a third-year pro, and over Denver in January 1978, 27-10. „ A 1965 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Staubach served in the Navy before joining the Cowboys in 1969. Roger and his wife, Marianne, have five children: Jennifer, 14, Michelle, 12, Stephanie, 11, Jeffrey, 6, and Amy, 3. He is a native of Silverton, Ohio, and now resides in Dallas with his family. Staubach will be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame on December 8, 1981. TRUST YOUR CAR TO MR. GOODWRENCH" Madam sarvict facility, qualified m tetanies and lav picas aN tka time. LUBE, OIL ft FILTER Omm, SaTllpaMcSicfcep. $Q A 1 7 Any American made car. Serv/ca Hours: Dally S-S; Sat. 9-12 Chcvrolet/Oldsmobile South Route 47 815/338-2780 Woodstock Profile Redd Foxx never forgets ̂ his friends "Be nice to people you meet on the way up. You'll meet the same people on the way down." These are words to live by, according to Redd Foxx, star of NBC TV's "Sanford." The actor who has been in show business 45 years began his career at 13 playing the washtub bass on street corners in St. Louis with a group called The Bon Bons. Later he became a comedian doing nightclubs on the famed "chitlin circuit." He recorded several party albums with his well-known blue comedy. Then, during the 60's he became a comedy actor, first in the motion picture "Cotton Comes to Harlem," then in television's "Sanford and Son," the parent of the newer series "San­ ford." Throughout all the years of struggle on the chitlin cir cuit, people say he never forgot his friends. "He was sometimes down to his last dollar and he'd give half of it to a hungry friend," said longtime friend Prince Spencer, once a member of the dance troupe called The Step Brothers, and now manager of Redd Foxx Productions "I will always be grateful to Redd," said LaWanda Page who played Aunt Esther on "Sanford and Son" and currently plays the same role in "Sanford." "Redd asked the producer of 'Sanford and Son' to cast me as Aunt Esther. I had worked with Redd at the Brass Rail Club in L.A. I was a dancer and later I did a fire act and some comedy routines. But I was scared to death to be an ac­ tress on television. "So when I came to the studio, I was nervous, so nervous I was terrible. Redd told the producer he would take me home for the weekend and help me with the lines. He did and I got the part." "Friendship is all-important," said Foxx. "If I had all the money in the world and no friends, I'd be miserable." s v ec'jfc.oa

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