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Cowboys Scared but Edge Hawks
The Cowboys, 4-0, marched 83 and 80 yards for second-half scores while holding Seattle scoreless.
Newhouse, who carried 19 times for 120 yards, scored on a 24-yard run late in the third period, putting Dallas ahead 31-13.
Dennison's one-yard TD run with 5:05 left in the game capped a 16-play Dallas drive that consumed nine minutes, seven seconds.
The Seahawks, behind quarterback Jim Zorn, the last player cut by Dallas in 1975, mounted 72 and 71-yard scoring drives for a 13-0 lead early in the second quarter.
Zorn's nine-yard pass to Don Testerman gave Seattle its first lead ever in a regular-season game, 7-0, midway in the first period.
After Seattle stopped Dallas on a fourth down play on the Seahawks 29, Zorn engineered an 11-play march, capped by his four-yard touchdown pass to Steve Largent early in the second period. John Leypoldt's kick for the extra point failed.
Staubach, the National Football Conference's leading passer, didn't get untracked until the second quarter, when he passed eight yards to Drew Pearson for the Cowboy' first score. He then teamed with Charles Young on a 25-yard TD pass with 1:34 left in the first half. Efren Herrera's extra point kick put Dallas ahead 14-13 at halftime.
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