Herb Banet
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| Position: | Halfback | ||||||||
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| Born: | October 17, 1913 Fort Wayne, Indiana, US | ||||||||
| Died: | March 12, 2003 (aged 89) Fort Wayne, Indiana, US | ||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 200 lb (91 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school: | South Side High | ||||||||
| College: | Manchester University | ||||||||
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| Career Green Bay Packers statistics as of 1937 | |||||||||
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| As coach: | |
| Central High School, Fort Wayne | |
| Career highlights and awards | |
| 1960 Indiana High School Final Four | |
| Basketball Hall of Fame |
Herbert Charles Banet (October 17, 1913 – March 12, 2003)[1] was an American football player in the National Football League and high school basketball coach, teacher, and guidance counselor.
Biography
[edit]Banet was born October 17, 1913, in Fort Wayne, Indiana.[2]
Football career
[edit]Banet played with the Green Bay Packers during the 1937 NFL season. He played at the collegiate level at Manchester University.
Basketball career
[edit]Banet was a head basketball coach and teacher at Central High School in Fort Wayne. He was an inductee of the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame.[3]
Personal and later life
[edit]Banet served in the United States Navy during the World War II era. He was married to Kathlyn Maude Stevens (1916–2001), and together they had four children: Stevens, David, Thomas, and Sarah. Banet became a guidance counselor at Northrup High School and retired in 1979. He died March 12, 2003, at Renaissance Village and is buried at Falls Memorial Gardens in Wabash, Indiana.[4]
See also
[edit]Footnotes
[edit]- ^ Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2011.
- ^ "Herb Banet Stats". Pro-Football-Reference.com.
- ^ "Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame » Herb Banet". Archived from the original on November 26, 2010. Retrieved November 21, 2010.
- ^ Obituary, Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, March 14, 2003.