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{{Short description|American football player (born 1951)}}
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| birth_place = [[Rockaway, New Jersey]], U.S.
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| high_school = [[Morris Hills High School|Rockaway (NJ) Morris Hills]] InductedBannon was inducted into the Morris Hills HS(N.J.) Regional District Hall of Fame.
| college = [[Penn State Nittany Lions football|Penn State]] Cotton Bowl MVP - 1972
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* Consensus [[College Football All-America Team|All-American]] ([[1972 College Football All-America Team|1972]])
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'''Bruce Patrick Bannon''' (born March 11, 1951) is an American former college and professional [[American football|football]] player who was a [[linebacker]] in the [[National Football League]] (NFL) for two seasons during the early 1970s. He played [[college football]] for [[Penn State University]] and earned consensus [[College Football All-America Team|All-American]] honors. The [[New York Jets]] selected him in the fifth round of the [[1973 NFL Draftdraft]], and he played for the NFL's [[Miami Dolphins]] in 1973 and 1974.
 
Bannon was born in [[Rockaway, New Jersey]]. He started playing football at 8 years old in the Morris County Midget Football League for the Rockaway Township Rockets as a quarterback. He played [[high school football]] at [[Morris Hills High School]] in Rockaway.<ref name=dbfprofile>databaseFootball.com, Players, [http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=BANNOBRU01 Bruce Bannon] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929152601/http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=BANNOBRU01 |date=2007-09-29 }}. Retrieved October 23, 2012.</ref>
 
Bannon attended [[Pennsylvania State University]] where he played for coach [[Joe Paterno]]'s [[Penn State Nittany Lions football]] team from 1969 to 1972. He was recognized as a consensus first-team All-American, and the defensive [[Most Valuable Player]] (MVP) of the 1972 [[Cotton Bowl Classic]]. He graduated from Penn State in 1973 with a bachelor of science degree in geology. Bannon was also named First-team All-America and selected to play in the Hula Bowl the following season.
The Nittany Lions compiled a 28-6 record in his three seasons at Penn State, and the team twice received the Lambert-Meadowlands Trophy as the best team in the Northeast. Bannon was a Hall of Fame Scholar-Athlete with an NCAA Postgraduate scholarship. He was a 1972 Academic All American as well.
Bannon had 223 tackles as a defensive end and was outstanding as a pass rusher.
 
He resides in Pennsylvania. Reports of his death in early 2008 were erroneous, arising from the death of an individual with the same name.
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