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At the annual league meetings in Miami Beach, Florida in 1960, Clint Murchison Jr. and Bedford Wynne were awarded an expansion franchise in the National Football League. Thus were born the Dallas Cowboys, who were destined to forever change the course of professional football.
Tom Landry, an assistant coach with the New York Giants, and Tex Schramm were anointed as head football coach and general manager, respectively.
From humble beginnings, the Cowboys slowly, but surely, built themselves into a league power by the time the NFL and AFL (American Football League) merged at the end of the decade.