Pete Bonner
{{Short description|American football player (1894–1972)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox college football player
|name=Pete Bonner
|image=Pete Bonner.png
|image_size=180px
|caption=Bonner pictured in the Glomerata 1917, Auburn yearbook
|birth_date={{Birth date|1894|9|24}}
|birth_place=Clay County, Alabama
|death_date={{death date and age|1972|12|1|1894|9|24}}
|death_place=Ashland, Alabama
|school=Auburn Tigers
|class=Graduate
|height_ft=6
|height_in=2
|weight_lb=183
|pastschools=Auburn (1916–1919)
|highlights=
- SIAA championship (1919)
- All-Southern (1917, 1919)
}}
Madison LeRoy "Pete" Bonner (September 24, 1894 – December 1, 1972){{Cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3PD-57R|title=FamilySearch.org|website=FamilySearch |accessdate=17 July 2023}} was a college football player.
Auburn University
Bonner was a prominent tackle for Mike Donahue's Auburn Tigers of Auburn University from 1916 to 1919. He was a member of an All-time Auburn Tigers football team selected in 1935,{{cite web|url=http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16313coll13/id/211|title=Tulane University Football Program-The Greenie; Auburn vs. Tulane|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141223103444/http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16313coll13/id/211|archive-date=2014-12-23}} as well as coach Donahue's all-time Auburn team.{{Cite news|url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19330110&id=9LM-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=UkwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6571,378292|title = Mike Donahue Names All-Time Auburn Football Team|date = January 10, 1933|work = The Tuscaloosa News}} He was nominated though not selected for an Associated Press All-Time Southeast 1869-1919 era team.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1242&dat=19690731&id=TkdTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YoYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2604,3160960|newspaper=Kingsport Post|title=U-T Greats On All-Time Southeast Team|date=July 31, 1969}}
=1917=
Bonner was an All-Southern tackle in 1917.
=1919=
He led the team to the SIAA championship of 1919 with an 8–1 record.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o9qcRV21QkgC&pg=PT41|title=SEC Football Trivia|author=Ernie Couch|date=30 July 2001|publisher=Thomas Nelson |isbn=9781418571788}} His brother Thomas Herbert "Herb" Bonner also attended Auburn and played on the football team.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/26916038/|title=The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia on September 12, 1920 · Page 5|date=12 September 1920 }}
Zelda Sayre sent him a telegram after the defeat of Georgia Tech for the SIAA championship, it read:{{cite web|url=http://www.thewareaglereader.com/2014/10/zelda-fitzgerald-auburn-fan/#.VFO-mhbYqqk|title=Zelda Fitzgerald, Auburn fan|author=Jeremy Henderson|date=October 27, 2014}}
"Shooting a seven, aren’t we awfully proud of the boys, give them my love—knew we could."She signed it "Zelder Sayre." One account of Bonner's play that day reads, "The Jackets were unable to gain through the Auburn line because of Pete Bonner, giant tackle, who seemed to have a knack of being just where he should have for the best interests of his team."{{cite news|newspaper=The Evening Independent|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19251017&id=ZPRPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7FQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1217,2297761|date=October 17, 1925|title=Jackets Hold Stiff Drills|page=30}}
Death
References
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{{1917 College Football Composite All-Southerns}}
{{1919 College Football Composite All-Southerns}}
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Category:All-Southern college football players
Category:Auburn Tigers football players
Category:American football guards
Category:American football tackles