Al Barnes

{{Short description|American football halfback}}

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{{for|the Detroit Lions player|Al Barnes (wide receiver)}}

{{Infobox college football player

|school=VMI Keydets

|pastschools=V.M.I. (1926–1927)

|currentposition=Halfback

|highlights=

• All-Southern (1927)

}}

Al Barnes was a college football player, a triple threat halfback for the VMI Keydets,{{cite web|url=http://digitalcollections.vmi.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15821coll8/id/4609|publisher=digitalcollections.vmi.edu|title=VMI Cadet. November 8, 1926 :: The Cadet, VMI Weekly Newspaper|accessdate=2016-09-06}} selected All-Southern in 1927.{{cite news|url=http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/athnewspapers/id:adb1927-2315|title=Four Georgia Grid Stars Voted Places On United Press Conference Team|date=November 23, 1917|work=Banner-Herald}} He played quarterback on the McKeesport Olympics.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19300928&id=ib4cAAAAIBAJ&sjid=N44EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6395,2456364&hl=en|work=The Pittsburgh Press|date=September 28, 1930|title=Independent Grid Season Opens Sunday}}