According to MSN News/Fox Sports, former Dallas Cowboys running back Robert Newhouse died Tuesday at the age of 64, a victim of heart disease.
Football aficionados remember Newhouse is for his powerful thighs and his halfback pass thrown for a touchdown to Golden Richards in Super Bowl XII.
“House was a great football player,” NFL Hall-of-Famer and former Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach told FOX4 on Tuesday.
Newhouse suffered a stroke in 2010 and had been at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., working to recover. He passed there surrounded by his family.
Newhouse was a second-round pick of the Cowboys in 1972 and the University of Houston product and Texas native forged a 12-year career with the Cowboys that included three Super Bowl appearances and a Super Bowl title in 1977. He was primarily a fullback, blocking for stars like Tony Dorsett.
Robert Newhouse will also be remembered by those who knew him best as “kind and caring.”
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