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Position: | Halfback | ||||||||
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Born: | Los Angeles, California, U.S. | November 19, 1917||||||||
Died: | February 22, 1977 Newport Beach, California, U.S. | (aged 59)||||||||
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High school: | Los Angeles | ||||||||
College: | Southern California | ||||||||
NFL draft: | 1941 / round: 10 / pick: 110 | ||||||||
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Herbert Jack Banta (November 19, 1917 – February 22, 1977)[1] was an American football halfback in the National Football League (NFL) for the Philadelphia Eagles, the Washington Redskins and Los Angeles Rams. He played college football at the University of Southern California for Howard Jones and was drafted in the tenth round of the 1941 NFL draft.[2] He served as a Lieutenant (junior grade) in the Navy during the World War II era.