World Report: May 10, 1996 Vol.1 No.25

Emmitt's Promise

Dallas Cowboys football star Emmitt Smith scored 25 touchdowns last season. But last Saturday Smith scored another kind of goal--he graduated from college! Smith dropped out of school to play football but promised his mother that he would finish college someday. "I've always been a man of my word," said Smith. "It was super important to me."