Don Manning is a former

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at the

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. He was a consensus All-American in 1967.

College career

Manning lettered for the UCLA Bruins football team under coach

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during the 1965, 1966 and 1967 seasons. He made 1st team All-Coast team in both the 1966 and 1967 seasons. In his final year, as a 6-foot, 2-inch, 204-pound

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, Manning was recognized as a consensus first-team All-American, having received first-team honors from several publications and organizations including the Walter Camp Foundation, and United Press International (UPI).''2014 NCAA Football Records Book''
Award Winners
, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Indianapolis, Indiana, pp. 4 & 14 (2014). Retrieved August 20, 2014. He was joined on the consensus All-American team by

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, marking the first time UCLA had two members in the same year. Manning was drafted by the

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in the seventeenth round (436th overall) of the

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. In 1993, he was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame.

References

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