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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]] Bannon was inducted into the Morris Hills (N.J.) Regional District Hall of Fame.
| college = [[Penn State Nittany Lions football|Penn State]] - Cotton Bowl MVP - 1972
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* [[Miami Dolphins]] ({{NFL Year|1973}}–{{NFL Year|1974}})
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* [[List of Super Bowl champions|Super Bowl champion]] ([[Super Bowl VIII|VIII]])
* Consensus [[College Football All-America Team|All-American]] ([[1972 College Football All-America Team|1972]])
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* 2× First-team All-East ([[1971 All-East football team|1971]], [[1972 All-East football 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-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 played for Miami (1973-74) in the National Football League. He also played in Super Bowls VII and VIII.
 
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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