Stanley Nelson Barnes
| Date of birth | May 1, 1900 |
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| Place of birth | Baraboo, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Date of death | March 5, 1990 (aged 89) |
| Place of death | Palm Springs, California, U.S. |
| Career information | |
| Position(s) | Center |
| College | University of California |
Stanley Nelson Barnes ("Stan Barnes") (May 1, 1900 – March 5, 1990) was a noted American college football player, an assistant attorney general of the United States, and a United States federal judge.
Stanley N. Barnes was born in Baraboo, Wisconsin. He played high school football at San Diego High for Clarence "Nibs" Price, who encouraged his brightest players, starting with Barnes, to follow his path to Berkeley to play for the California Golden Bears under coach Andy Smith. Barnes was a center/tackle on California's "Wonder Teams" of 1920 and 1921. In his junior and senior seasons he played with the Bears in two consecutive Rose Bowls.
The 1920 California squad won the national championship going 9-0 outscoring its opponents 510 to 14. In one of the biggest routs in college football history, the Bears defeated St. Mary's 127-0. In the Rose Bowl, Cal defeated the Ohio State Buckeyes 28-0. California was also undefeated and untied in 1921 until the Bears tied Washington & Jefferson 0-0 on a muddy field in the Rose Bowl. During his four years at Berkeley, Barnes played on teams that won 31 lost four and tied two.
He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954 and was among the first group of inductees at the Cal Athletic Hall of Fame in 1986.
Barnes was in the United States Navy Reserve from 1918 to 1921. He received a Bachelor's Degree of Arts from UC Berkeley in 1922 and a J.D. from University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law in 1925. Barnes also studied at Harvard Law School. He was in private practice in San Francisco, California from 1925 to 1928, and then in Los Angeles, California until 1947. He was a lecturer at the University of Southern California Law School and Medical School from 1947 to 1952.
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