{"id":10879,"date":"2011-10-24T15:36:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T19:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10879"},"modified":"2011-10-24T15:39:47","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T19:39:47","slug":"murray-gains-253-yards-cowboys-top-rams-34-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10879","title":{"rendered":"Murray Gains 253 Yards, Cowboys Top Rams 34-7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ARLINGTON, TX<\/strong> &#8212; The only drama at the end of this one was whether rookie DeMarco Murray would set the Dallas Cowboys&#8217; franchise rushing record, a remarkable feat considering it&#8217;s gone from Hall of Famer <strong>Tony Dorsett<\/strong> to NFL rushing king <strong>Emmitt Smith<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Murray<\/strong> indeed pulled it off, running through a shoddy St. Louis Rams defense for 253 yards, including an early 91-yard touchdown that got the Cowboys started toward a 34-7 victory on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Murray<\/strong> ran for the most yards in the NFL this season and the ninth-most in league history. His touchdown was the second-longest run in team history, topped only by the NFL-record 99-yarder by <strong>Dorsett<\/strong> in January 1983. He also had the most yards ever against the Rams, replacing <strong>Jim Brown<\/strong> on that list.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never thought in a million years that I&#8217;d ever have a day like this,&#8221; <strong>Murray<\/strong> said. &#8220;This is what I&#8217;ve been working hard for since my Pop Warner days.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, TX &#8212; The only drama at the end of this one was whether rookie DeMarco Murray would set the Dallas Cowboys&#8217; franchise rushing record, a remarkable feat considering it&#8217;s gone from Hall of Famer Tony Dorsett to NFL rushing king Emmitt Smith. Murray indeed pulled it off, running through a shoddy St. Louis Rams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}