Pat Cannamela

Pat Cannamela
Position:	Offensive guard, Linebacker
Personal information
Date of birth:	April 27, 1929
Place of birth:	New London, Connecticut
Date of death:	January 28, 1973 (age 43)
Place of death:	Los Angeles, California
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Career information
High school:	Chapman Technical High School (New London, CT)
College:	University of Southern California
NFL draft:	1952 / Round: 11 / Pick: 122
Career history
	Ventura College (1948–1949); USC Trojans (1950-1951); Dallas Texans (1952);
Career highlights and awards
	First-team All-American (1951);

Patterson N. "Pat" Cannamela (April 27, 1929 – January 28, 1973) was an American football player. A native of New London, Connecticut, Cannamela moved west and enrolled in Ventura College in 1948 and played football there during the 1948 and 1949 season. He won a scholarship to the University of Southern California in 1950 and played at the offensive guard and linebacker positions for the USC Trojans football team during the 1950 and 1951 seasons.^[1] He was selected by the Football Writers Association of America, the International News Service, and the Newspaper Enterprise Association as a first-team player on their 1951 College Football All-America Teams.^[2]^[3]^[4] He was drafted by the Dallas Texans in the 11th round of the 1952 NFL Draft and played for the Texans as a linebacker during the 1952 NFL season.^[5] In 1973, Cannamela was shot and killed during a robbery at the Zody's Discount Store on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, where he was working as an appliance salesman.^[1] He was posthumously inducted into the USC Athletic Hall of Fame in 2007.^[6]

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