Former Cowboys RB Robert Newhouse Passes Away at 64

July 23, 2014   ·   Tyler Conway   ·   Jump to comments

Former NFL fullback Robert Newhouse, who spent his entire 12-year career with the Dallas Cowboys and stayed with the organization long after his retirement, died Tuesday at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
He was 64.
In a statement released to Fox 4 in Dallas-Fort Worth, Newhouse's son, Rodd, confirmed his father died of complications caused by heart disease. He had been at the Mayo Clinic since November and was surrounded by his wife and four children at the time of his death. He previously suffered a stroke in 2010. 
"He fought a long, hard fight," Rodd Newhouse told Jarrett Bell of USA Today. "He definitely showed everyone, especially his family, that he was a fighter."
Born in Longview, Texas, Newhouse spent almost the entirety of his childhood and adult life in the Lonestar State. He attended high school in Hallsville, went to college at the University of Houston and began a decades-long relationship with the Cowboys in 1972.
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