The Dallas Cowboys season was their sixth in the National Football League and their best record to date, at 7âÂÂ7. After five consecutive losses, Dallas was 2âÂÂ5 halfway through the season. They won five of the final seven games and finished in a tie for second place in the Eastern Conference, with the New York Giants, four games behind the defending NFL champion Cleveland Browns (11âÂÂ3).
The Cowboys defeated the Giants twice and earned the berth in the third place Playoff Bowl in Miami, held three weeks after the regular season, but lost 35âÂÂ3 to the Baltimore Colts, runners-up of the Western Conference.
Conference opponents are in bold text