Herb Banet
{{Short description|American football player (1913–2003)}}
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| number = 21
| position = Halfback
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1913|10|17|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2003|03|12|1913|10|17|mf=y}}
| death_place = Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
| height_ft = 6
| height_in = 2
| weight_lb = 200
| high_school = South Side High
| college = Manchester University
| pastteams =
- Green Bay Packers (1937)
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| statseason = 1937
| statlabel1 = Games Started
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| statlabel2 = Total Rush Attempts
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| statlabel3 = Total Rushing Yards
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| pfr = BaneHe20
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| cteam1 = Central High School, Fort Wayne
| highlights = 1960 Indiana High School Final Four
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Herbert Charles Banet (October 17, 1913 – March 12, 2003)Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2011. was an American football player in the National Football League and high school basketball coach, teacher, and guidance counselor.
Biography
Football career
Banet played with the Green Bay Packers during the 1937 NFL season. He played at the collegiate level at Manchester University.
Basketball career
Banet was a head basketball coach and teacher at Central High School in Fort Wayne. He was an inductee of the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame.{{Cite web |url=http://hoopshall.com/hall/b/herb-banet/ |title=Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame » Herb Banet |access-date=2010-11-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101126052033/http://hoopshall.com/hall/b/herb-banet/ |archive-date=2010-11-26 |url-status=dead }}
Personal and later life
Banet served in the United States Navy during the World War II era. He was married to Kathlyn Maude Stevens (1916–2001), and together they had four children: Stevens, David, Thomas, and Sarah. Banet became a guidance counselor at Northrup High School and retired in 1979. He died March 12, 2003, at Renaissance Village and is buried at Falls Memorial Gardens in Wabash, Indiana.Obituary, Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, March 14, 2003.