Report: Cowboys Sold, Johnson to Coach

A Ft. Worth television station reported Thursday night that the Dallas Cowboys have been sold to Arkansas businessman Jerry Jones and that Miami Hurricanes coach Jimmy Johnson will be named to replace Tom Landry as coach of the team.

Cowboy President Tex Schramm denied any knowledge of the report by KXAS-TV.

“This is all a complete surprise to me. It’s totally new to me. I guess anything can happen, but I know nothing of it,” Schramm told the Associated Press.

Schramm said he last talked to Cowboy owner H.R. (Bum) Bright Wednesday, “and he said nothing about it.”

Landry also said: “I don’t know a thing about it.”

Jones was a teammate of Johnson and current Arkansas football Coach Ken Hatfield on the 1964 Arkansas team that won the national championship. Jones was a 3-year letterman and was the captain of the 1964 team. Now 46, Jones is chairman of the Arkoma Exploration Co., based in Little Rock, Ark.