Cowboy Quarterback Controversy Starts Early

Danny White will go into the Dallas Cowboys’ training camp as the team’s No. 1 quarterback, but that doesn’t necessarily mean he’ll keep the job next season, Coach Tom Landry says.

“The guy that finishes the season starting, goes into training camp as the starter,” Landry said last week. “Danny finished up the starter, and if nothing changes before camp, that’s the way it will be.”

Landry added, however, that “it’s not any different than always and doesn’t necessarily mean Danny has an edge.”

Landry said he met for 30 minutes in his office Tuesday with White, who lost his starting job to Gary Hogeboom at the beginning of the season but wound up starting six games, including the last four.

The meeting completed Landry’s off-season quarterback meetings -- he met with Hogeboom on Jan. 7. Landry said neither player asked for a trade.

Landry said he told White and Hogeboom he wants both them to return for the 1985 season. But, unlike last year, Landry said he is determined to pick a starter and stick with him.

“They both told me they don’t want to go through anything like last year,” Landry told The Dallas Morning News. “All three of us are in agreement there.”