Don Manning

For the politician, see Don Manning (Ohio politician).

Don Manning (born c.1946)^[1] is a former American football linebacker at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was a consensus All-American in 1967.

Don Lee Manning

Born:	c.1946
Career information
Position(s)	LB
Height	6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
Weight	204 lb (93 kg)
College	UCLA
Career history
As player
1964–1966	UCLA
Career highlights and awards
Consensus All-American (1967) 2× First-team All-Pac-8 (1966, 1967)

College career

Manning lettered for the UCLA Bruins football team under coach Tommy Prothro during the 1965, 1966 and 1967 seasons.^[2] He made 1st team All-Coast team in both the 1966 and 1967 seasons.^[2] In his final year, as a 6-foot, 2-inch, 204-pound Linebacker, 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).^[3] He was joined on the consensus All-American team by Gary Beban, marking the first time UCLA had two members in the same year.^[2] Manning was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in the seventeenth round (436th overall) of the 1968 NFL/AFL draft.^[4] In 1993, he was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame.^[5]