Jerry Rhome

Jerry Rhome is one of the most accomplished and prolific passers in the history of college football. Named to almost every All-American team and Collegiate Player of the Year by several polls, Rhome began his collegiate career as quarterback at Southern Methodist University in 1961, leading the Southwestern Conference in passing and total offense. Rhome then transferred for his last two seasons to Tulsa University.

At TU, Rhome made shambles of NCAA passing and total offense records, breaking 18 of them. He threw for a career 4,779 yards and 42 touchdowns. In 1964, after passing for 2,870 yards and 32 touchdowns he was a Heisman Trophy runner-up to Notre Dame quarterback John Huarte.

Drafted by both the New York Jets in the American Football League and the Dallas Cowboys, then the expansion franchise of the National Football League, Rhome signed with the Cowboys. He played on two championship teams with Dallas and participated in the famous "Ice Bowl", against Green Bay in 1967.

He later played for the Cleveland Browns, Houston Oilers and Los Angeles Rams before his career was cut short by a rotator cuff injury.

Rhome returned to Tulsa in 1973 as the Hurricane's offensive coordinator and receiver coach, developing talents like Steve Largent, who went on to become one of the NFL's all-time great receivers.

In 1976, he moved his coaching abilities to the NFL where he would spend 24 years developing the like of Super Bowl winning quarterbacks Troy Aikman of Dallas, Kurt Warner of St. Louis and Minnesota's Cris Carter, the NFL's all-time leading receiver.

Rhome was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1998 and the Texas High School Hall of Fame in 2001.