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Hugh Gallarneau - Wikipedia

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Hugh "Duke" Gallarneau
Career information
Gallarneau, circa 1942
Born:	(1917-04-02)April 2, 1917 Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Died:	July 14, 1999(1999-07-14) (aged 82) Northbrook, Illinois, U.S.
Position(s)	Halfback
College	Stanford
NFL draft	1941, round: 3 / Pick 23
Career history
As player
1941–1942; 1945–1947	Chicago Bears

Career highlights and awards
2× NFL champion (1941, 1946) NFL rushing touchdowns leader (1941) First-team All-American (1940) Second-team All-PCC (1940)
College Football Hall of Fame

Hugh Harold "Duke" Gallarneau (April 2, 1917 – July 14, 1999) was an American professional player who was a halfback in the National Football League (NFL) from 1941 to 1942 and 1945 to 1947 for the Chicago Bears. He played college football at Stanford, where he was an All-American.

College career

Gallarneau attended Morgan Park High School in Chicago, Illinois, but did not play high school football, opting instead for swimming, track, and baseball.^[1] After high school, he was accepted to Stanford University on an academic scholarship, and decided to try out for the football team for the 1938 season and made the team.^[1]

In 1938, Stanford's team was 3–6, and the next year, fell to 1–7–1. The next year, 1940, new head football coach Clark Shaughnessy introduced the T formation, and the Indians were transformed in a winner. Gallarneau, as part of a backfield including future NFL players quarterback Frankie Albert, halfback Pete Kmetovic, and fullback Norm Standlee, were the core of a team known as the Wow Boys, which went undefeated and beat Nebraska 21–13 in the 1941 Rose Bowl. In that game, Gallarneau scored two of Stanford's touchdowns, on a 10-yard run and a 40-yard pass reception.

Gallarneau was named an All-American in football, was on Stanford's rugby team, and won the Pacific Coast Conference heavyweight boxing title.^[1]

NFL career

In the 1941 NFL draft, Gallarneau was selected in the third round by the Chicago Bears.^[2] He played for the Bears for the 1941 and 1942 seasons. Gallarneau still holds the Bears' record for the longest punt return in a postseason game, returning a punt 81 yards for a touchdown against the Green Bay Packers in the divisional playoffs to help lead the Bears to the 1941 NFL Championship game.^[3] The return also remains the third-longest in NFL postseason history.^[4]

World War II

In 1943, Gallarneau joined the Marine Corps to fight in World War II. He was trained as a night fighter director and fought in the Pacific Theater, rising to the rank of major.^[1] During the Battle of Okinawa and he was a member of Air Warning Squadron 8 attached to a SCR-527 radar detachment located near Yontan Airifeld.^[5] On May 18, Gallarneau was working with 1stLt Robert Wellwood from VMF(N)-533, callsign "Scrapper 17." That evening Gallarneau and Wellwood collaborated to shoot down three Japanese Mitsubishi G4M "Betty" bombers.^[6] Gallarneau was awarded the Bronze Star for his efforts in assisting with the downing of six Japanese aircraft during the Battle of Okinawa.^[7] He returned to the Bears for the 1945 season, and played three more seasons before retiring in 1947.^[1]

After football

After leaving football, Gallarneau remained in Chicago, working for Marshall Field's and Hart, Schaffner & Marx, where he retired as a vice president in 1985.^[1] He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1982 and is a member of the Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame and the Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame. He died in Northfield, Illinois, in 1999.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Hugh "Duke" Gallarneau at the College Football Hall of Fame
^ "1941 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
^ "Chicago Bears individual postseason records" (PDF). ChicagoBears.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 29, 2007. Retrieved June 18, 2007.
^ "NFL Playoff Records". National Football League. Archived from the original on April 2, 2007. Retrieved June 18, 2007.
^ DeChant 1947, pp. 234.
^ Martin, Harold H. (November 10, 1945). "The Crystal Gazers and the Night Chicks". Liberty Magazine. New York City: Paul Hunter.
^ Gunn, John (1999). "Hugh Gallarneau" (PDF). The Coffin Corner. 21 (6): 1–2. Retrieved August 31, 2021.

Bibliography

DeChant, John A. (1947). Devilbirds – The Story of United States Marine Aviation in World War II. New York: Harper & Brothers.

External links

Hugh Gallarneau at the College Football Hall of Fame
Career statistics from NFL.com · Pro Football Reference

v t e 1940 Stanford Indians football—national champions
Frankie Albert Hugh Gallarneau Jack Smith Norm Standlee Pete Kmetovic Vic Lindskog Fred Meyer Jim Verdieck Head coach Clark Shaughnessy

v t e Chicago Bears 1941 NFL draft selections
Tom Harmon Norm Standlee Don Scott Hugh Gallarneau Charlie O'Rourke Tommy O'Boyle John Federovitch Fred Hartman David Rankin Al Matuza Hal Lahar Jim Lalanne Jim Hardin Bob Morrow Jim Johnson Johnny Martin Jack Mulkey Bob Osterman Bill Glenn Ollie Hahnenstein Alex Winterson Jack Odle Hunter Corbern Dave Buck

Chicago Bears 1941 NFL champions

Chicago Bears 1946 NFL champions

NFL annual rushing touchdowns leaders

1932: Nagurski
1933: Presnell
1934: Clark & Feathers
1935: Caddel
1936: Clark
1937: Battles, Clark & Hinkle
1938: Farkas
1939: Drake
1940: Drake
1941: Gallarneau
1942: Famiglietti
1943: Paschal
1944: Paschal
1945: Van Buren
1946: Fritsch
1947: Van Buren
1948: Van Buren
1949: Van Buren
1950: Lujack
1951: Goode
1952: Towler
1953: Perry
1954: Towler
1955: Ameche
1956: Casares
1957: Brown
1958: Brown
1959: Brown
1960: Hornung
1961: Ji. Taylor
1962: Ji. Taylor
1963: Brown
1964: Moore
1965: Brown
1966: Kelly
1967: Kelly
1968: Kelly
1969: Matte
1970: Lane
1971: Thomas
1972: M. Morris
1973: Little & Simpson
1974: Sullivan
1975: Banaszak & Simpson
1976: Harris
1977: Payton
1978: D. Sims
1979: Campbell
1980: Campbell & B. Sims
1981: Muncie
1982: M. Allen
1983: Riggins
1984: Dickerson & Riggins
1985: J. Morris
1986: Rogers
1987: Hector & White
1988: Bell
1989: Bell
1990: Fenner & Gary
1991: Sanders
1992: Smith
1993: M. Allen
1994: Smith
1995: Smith
1996: T. Allen
1997: Abdul-Jabbar & T. Davis
1998: T. Davis
1999: S. Davis
2000: Faulk
2001: Alexander
2002: Holmes
2003: Holmes
2004: Tomlinson
2005: Alexander
2006: Tomlinson
2007: Tomlinson
2008: D. Williams
2009: Peterson
2010: Foster
2011: McCoy
2012: Foster
2013: Charles & Lynch
2014: Lynch & Murray
2015: Freeman, Hill, Peterson & D. Williams
2016: Blount
2017: Gurley
2018: Gurley
2019: Henry & Jones
2020: Henry
2021: Jo. Taylor
2022: J. Williams
2023: Mostert