Landry wasn’t ready for Harris to retire either, and asked him to stay another year. That was the same year Hall of Fame quarterback Roger Staubach shocked the Cowboys by stepping away. Waters, a third-round pick, and Harris came in together, started as rookies and were synonymous with the Dallas secondary until Harris retired after 10 seasons in 1979. You get up and clean or we’re going to send you to the brig and it’s going to be uncountable time,’” Harris said. “An officer came in and sat down beside me and said, ‘I know who you are and what your story is and here’s the deal. He said he kept his seat on a bed after a sergeant ordered him and others to clean their barracks. Harris recalled having to report to Fort Polk in Louisiana the morning after a 54-13 loss at Minnesota five weeks into his rookie season. at war in Vietnam, Harris had to juggle National Guard duties during his first few NFL seasons, sometimes reporting for duty during the week and usually getting to rejoin his teammates for games. You’re playing like amateurs drawing pay.’” “I remember him coming into the locker room and being mad and saying, ‘You’re not playing like professionals. “He wanted to beat them bad,” Harris said of Landry. In a game the Cowboys trailed 10-0 at halftime, Harris intercepted two passes, and now looks back at that as the catalyst for a career that included two Super Bowl victories, trips to three others, and three All-Pro seasons. The late Cowboys coach Tom Landry had spent most of his playing career with the Giants. Harris has a commemorative ball in the study of the 72-year-old’s Dallas home from the second game of his rookie season, a 28-10 victory over the New York Giants. NFL veterans went on strike for about three weeks in 1970, giving Harris and other rookies more time with coaches before an exhibition schedule that was much longer in those days, six games in this case. They wanted to know, ‘Here’s where Cliff Harris is. “They didn’t want to know where Lee Roy Jordan was or Randy White or Mel Renfro or me. “The offensive guys wanted to know where Cliff Harris was,” said Charlie Waters, a fellow safety and Harris’ presenter for his induction Aug. Harris is the fourth Dallas defender from that era in Canton after Bob Lilly, Mel Renfro and Randy White. “Captain Crash” combined hard hitting with speed and anticipation on the “Doomsday” defenses of the 1970s, the heyday of America’s Team. Harris and receiver Drew Pearson, who also will be inducted this year as part of the class of 2021, are the first undrafted Cowboys among their 15 players in the Hall of Fame.
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That studious nature at safety helped Harris on the improbable path from being undrafted out of tiny Ouachita Baptist in Arkansas to the Pro Football Hall of Fame as part of last year’s special centennial class. “Where are the routes they run? And what do we expect on first-and-10? I need more information.” “I was like, ‘Wait, I need more,’” Harris said with a chuckle. Hold up one finger for zone, two for man to man. DALLAS (AP) - Cliff Harris was preparing for one of his six Pro Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys in the 1970s when Minnesota coach Bud Grant went over the defensive signals for a game that’s always been more exhibition than competition.
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