Benny Barnes
Benny Barnes, at Contra Costa College
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| Position: | Cornerback, Safety | ||||||||
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| Date of birth: | March 3, 1951 | ||||||||
| Place of birth: | Lufkin, Texas | ||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 190 lb (86 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school: | Richmond (CA) Kennedy | ||||||||
| College: | Stanford | ||||||||
| Undrafted: | 1972 | ||||||||
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| Interceptions: | 11 |
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| Games started: | 78 |
| Games played: | 138 |
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Benny Jewell Barnes (born March 3, 1951) is a former American Football cornerback who played eleven seasons in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys. He is most famous for a questionable pass interference in Super Bowl XIII on Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Lynn Swann.
After attending John F. Kennedy High School of Richmond, he moved on to Contra Costa College, where he was an all-conference linebacker for the football team and also an all-conference track and field athlete.
In 1970 he transferred to Stanford University, where he was converted from linebacker to safety, becoming a two-year starter and part of the “Thunder Chickens” defense, that was very effective (9 of their 11 starters ended up playing professional football). He was an All-Pacific-10 Conference selection as a senior.
He helped teams led by Jim Plunkett in 1971 and Don Bunce in 1972 to two of the biggest upset victories ever in the Rose Bowl.
Although he played just two years, he was inducted into the Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame and selected to the Stanford's All-Century Team. In 2011, he was inducted into the California Community College Athletic Association Hall of Fame.
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