Jack Casteel "Teel" Bruner (born February 16, 1964) is a former
American football
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safety
Safety is the state of being "safe", the condition of being protected from harm or other danger. Safety can also refer to the control of recognized hazards in order to achieve an acceptable level of risk.
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. He was elected to the
College Football Hall of Fame
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in 1999. He currently works at St. Mary's Hospital and Clinics in
Cottonwood, Idaho
Cottonwood is a city in Idaho County, Idaho. On the Camas Prairie in north central Idaho, the population was 900 at the 2010 census, down from 944 in 2000. It is just west of U.S. Route 95, between Grangeville and Lewiston.
Origins
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as a family practice physician. He is a former head coach for Prairie High School's varsity basketball team and former defensive coordinator for Prairie High's football team. Coach Bruner has won 2 state titles in the 1A div 1 classification during his basketball coaching tenure.
Bruner's defensive abilities helped lead Prairie to a 4-2 record in the Idaho 1A State Championship Game. In the 2014-15 seasons, Bruner alongside Head Coach Ryan Hasselstrom and assistant coaches Ron Sigler and Matt Elven led the Prairie Pirates football team to 23 straight wins, tying a school record previously set in 2008-09. (Both times their streak ended in the State Championship game). Most recently, he was part of the 2019 State Championship team at Prairie High School. He stepped down at the end of the 2019 season.
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1964 births
Living people
American football safeties
Centre Colonels football players
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People from Cottonwood, Idaho
People from London, Kentucky
Players of American football from Kentucky
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