Dennis Smith (American football)
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| Position: | Safety | ||||||||
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| Date of birth: | February 3, 1959 | ||||||||
| Place of birth: | Santa Monica, California | ||||||||
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| College: | USC | ||||||||
| NFL Draft: | 1981 / Round: 1 / Pick: 15 | ||||||||
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| Interceptions: | 30 |
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| INT yards: | 431 |
| Sacks: | 15 |
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Dennis Smith (born February 3, 1959) is a retired American football player. He played professionally as a safety in the National Football League (NFL) for the Denver Broncos from 1981 and 1994. Smith played college football at the University of Southern California (USC).
Smith played high school football as a wide receiver and defensive back at Santa Monica High School (Samohi). He was the CIF Southern Section Co-Player of the Year in 1976. Dennis Smith was a great prospect who went on to be a Pro Bowl player. But at that time his standard as a player was to emulate Dennis Thurman, who had been such an outstanding player previously at Samohi in 1974 who also later starred at USC and Smith would eventually follow Thurman as a freshman to run track and play football at USC as a safety. Smith also ran on the track & field team at Santa Monica and broke the HS high jump record (which has since been eclipsed) in 1977. He was coached by Tebb Kusserow. who also coached number of other NFL players such as Dennis Thurman, Junior Thurman, Mel Kaufman, Pat O'Hara, Glyn Milburn, Sam Anno, Damone Johnson, and others notables such as actor Dean Cain. Smith has also been inducted into the Santa Monica High School Hall of Fame for athletes and has had his number "symbolically" retired by the school.
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