Dennis Patera
American football player (born 1945)
About Dennis Patera
Born 1945. Dennis Patera is an American athletics competitor and american football player.
Dennis Allen Patera (born October 17, 1945) is an American former professional football player who was a placekicker for one season with the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the 49ers in the seventeenth round of the 1968 NFL/AFL draft. He first enrolled at Columbia Basin College before transferring to play college football for the BYU Cougars.
Early life Patera was a two-year letterman in football and a three-year letterman in track and field at Cleveland High School in Portland, Oregon. Patera was inducted into the PIL Hall of Fame in 2011.
College career Patera initially attended Columbia Basin College. He played in five games for the team during the 1968 season.
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American football player (born 1945)
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Dennis Patera was born on 17 October 1945 in Portland.
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Dennis Patera is an athletics competitor and american football player.
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