On January 3, 1983, during a Monday Night Football game in Minnesota, Dorsett broke a 99-yard touchdown run against the Vikings, which is the longest run from scrimmage in NFL history.

At the University of Pittsburgh, Dorsett became the first freshman in 29 years to be named All-American ( Doc Blanchard of Army was the previous one in 1944 ).

* January 3 – Tony Dorsett sets NFL record for longest run from scrimmage by rushing for 99 yard touchdown.

For all the ability he had, Dorsett could never lead his team to the WPIAL Class AA playoffs, because in those days the teams had to have an undefeated record.

Against Notre Dame in his junior year, Dorsett had 303 yards rushing to break his own school single game rushing record.

Dorsett finished his college career with 6, 082 total rushing yards, then an NCAA record.

Despite not becoming a full-time starter until the tenth game of the regular season, Dorsett led the team in rushing with 1, 007 yards, scored 13 total touchdowns, and was the team's third leading receiver with 29 receptions for another 273 yards.

Veteran fullback Robert Newhouse provided Dorsett with blocking, and was the team's second leading rusher with 721 yards, while also catching 16 passes for another 106 yards.

Dorsett was the leading rusher of the game, with 66 rushing yards and a touchdown.

Running back Tony Dorsett had another fine season, recording a total of 1703 combined rushing and receiving yards, and scoring a total of 9 touchdowns.

On their opening drive, the Cowboys advanced to the Pittsburgh 38-yard line, with running back Tony Dorsett gaining 38 yards off 3 running plays.

On their next drive, Dallas drove 89 yards in 8 plays, including an 18-yard scramble by Staubach on 3rd and 11 and a 29-yard run by Dorsett, to score on Staubach's 7-yard touchdown pass to Dupree.

Dorsett was the top rusher of the game with 96 rushing yards, and also caught 5 passes for 44 yards.

In 1971, a competition between Dorsett and sophomore Michael Kimbrough for the starting running back position ended after Dorsett took a screen pass 75 yards for a touchdown against Ambridge during the season opener.

Dorsett ended the year as an All-State selection after rushing for 1, 034 yards and scoring 19 touchdowns, while leading the Vikings to a 9-1 season.

In his sophomore season, 1978, Dorsett recorded 1, 325 yards and nine touchdowns.

Dorsett had a career total of 12, 036 yards in Dallas before being traded to the Denver Broncos in 1988 for a conditional fifth-round draft choice.

Dorsett led the Broncos with 703 yards and five touchdowns that year, but injuries prior to the 1989 season led to his retirement.

Dorsett recorded 12, 733 yards and 77 touchdowns in his 12-year career.

Dorsett made the Pro Bowl 4 times during his career ( 1978, 1981 – 1983 ) and rushed for over 1, 000 yards in 8 of his first 9 seasons.

He ranks third on the Cowboys'all-time rushing yards and rushing touchdowns lists behind Emmitt Smith and Tony Dorsett.

Five plays later, running back Tony Dorsett, who finished the game with 101 rushing yards, scored on a 5-yard touchdown run to give the Cowboys a 7-0 lead.

Dallas then marched 89 yards, featuring a 53 yard run on first down by Tony Dorsett to score on Billy Joe Dupree's 11-yard touchdown catch.

The Cowboys avenged a 38-14 loss to the Rams two weeks earlier ( in a game they trailed 38-0 ) as Dallas running back Tony Dorsett rushed for 160 yards, caught 3 passes for 28 yards, and scored 2 touchdowns to lead his team to victory.

Dorsett won both championships in the same building ; Pitt clinched the 1976 national championship by defeating the Georgia Bulldogs in the Sugar Bowl on January 1, 1977.

In 1894 Palemon Howard Dorsett, a lifelong Department of Agriculture employee, turned up at the Department of State with a metal die engraved with the Great Seal, claiming it had originally been given to his family by a nephew of George Washington.

The investigation also turned up some facts which supported Dorsett's story: documents relating to the sale of Washington's estate list " plates arms U. S ." being sold to Thomas Hammond ( a son-in-law of Charles Washington and therefore a nephew by marriage to George Washington ), and also the Hammond and Dorsett families both had roots in West Virginia just a few miles apart.

On the London stage, Richardson has been portrayed by John Simon Rawlings in the musical Buddy-The Buddy Holly Story, and is currently being portrayed by Steve Dorsett in the 2011 UK National Tour.

Dorsett was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys with the second pick of the first round of the 1977 NFL Draft.

The game was briefly stopped while Williams received the game ball and was honored by a group of dignitaries including Dorsett.

Sybil is a 1973 book by Flora Rheta Schreiber about the treatment of Sybil Dorsett ( a pseudonym for Shirley Ardell Mason ) for dissociative identity disorder ( then referred to as multiple personality disorder ) by her psychoanalyst, Cornelia B. Wilbur.

Based on the book Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber, the movie dramatizes the life of a shy young graduate student, Sybil Dorsett ( in real life, Shirley Ardell Mason ), suffering from dissociative identity disorder as a result of the psychological trauma she suffered as a child.

On 27 February 1877, by a vote of 63 to 30, the House approved, and Mrs. Dorsett was admitted to the bar in 1878.

Backed up at their own 11-yard line by a Shane Lechler punt and simply trying to run out the clock, running back Robert Holcombe fumbled the ball while being tackled by Raiders linebacker Eric Barton, and defensive back Anthony Dorsett, who was a member of the Titans 1999 Super Bowl squad, recovered the ball at the Tennessee 16-yard line.

Three plays later, running back Tony Dorsett scored on a 5-yard rushing touchdown to give Dallas a 17 – 14 lead by halftime.

: by Jody Dorsett

Their nephew Dicky Dorsett ( born 3 December 1919, died 1999 ) played over 250 times for Aston Villa between 1946 and 1952 and also played for Wolverhampton Wanderers in the 1939 FA Cup Final.

* Molly Millions, Henry Dorsett Case, and Peter Riviera all have some sort of cybernetic augmentation in William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy.

Henry Dorsett Case is a low-level hustler in the dystopian underworld of Chiba City, Japan.

; Case ( Henry Dorsett Case ): The novel's antihero, a drug addict and cyberspace hacker.

The Cowboys also had a new weapon on offense: rookie running back Tony Dorsett.

Tony Dorsett became the first football player in history to win an NCAA National Championship one year ( with the University of Pittsburgh Panthers ) and a Super Bowl the next.

A few plays later, Dallas running back Tony Dorsett fumbled on his own 19-yard line, but center John Fitzgerald quickly recovered the ball.

5 plays after the turnover, Dorsett scored on a 3-yard touchdown run.

In addition to Coaches Noll and Landry, 14 players would end up being voted into the Hall of Fame: Nine Pittsburgh players: Bradshaw, Harris, Swann, Stallworth, Webster, Greene, Lambert, Ham, and Blount, and five from Dallas: Staubach, Dorsett, White, Wright, and Jackie Smith, who the Cowboys lured out of retirement from the St. Louis Cardinals due to injuries to Cowboy tight ends, most notably, Jay Saldi.

Next, linebacker Jack Ham tackled Dorsett for a 3-yard loss on an attempted sweep.

Decades later, in 1936, Dorsett wrote again regarding his die, and this time it was investigated more thoroughly.

Afterwards Dorsett lent his seal to Mount Vernon, and his heirs made it a donation.

Sinclairville was the birthplace of New Deal theoretician Rexford Tugwell ( 1891 – 1979 ), and of Charles W. Dorsett ( 1850 – 1936 ), Swedenborgian and Prohibition Party leader, whose wife, Martha Angle Dorsett ( 1851 – 1918 ) was the first woman attorney in Minnesota.