Barry Gallup
{{Short description|American football player and coach (born 1946)}}
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{{Infobox college coach
| name = Barry Gallup Sr.
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|8|15}}{{cite web|url=https://www.profootballarchives.com/playerg/gall03150.html|title=Barry Gallup NFL Stats and Bio|website=profootballarchives.com|access-date=July 29, 2023}}
| birth_place = Lynn, Massachusetts, U.S.
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| alma_mater =
| player_years1 = 1965–1968
| player_team1 = Boston College
| player_positions = Wide receiver
| coach_years1 = 1969
| coach_team1 = Boston College (Asst. freshmen)
| coach_years2 = 1973–1980
| coach_team2 = Boston College (Defensive line)
| coach_years3 = 1981–1990
| coach_team3 = Boston College (Recruiting coord./receivers)
| coach_years4 = 1991–1999
| coach_team4 = Northeastern
| admin_years1 = 1993–1997
| admin_team1 = Northeastern
| admin_years2 = 2000–2012
| admin_team2 = Boston College (Assistant AD)
| overall_record = 38–60–1
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Barry Gallup Sr. (born August 15, 1946) is an American former college football coach and college athletics administrator. He spent 46 years as a player, coach, or administrator for the Boston College Eagles football team and was the head football coach at Northeastern University from 1991 to 1999, compiling a record of 38–60–1.
Athletic career
During his prep years, Gallup played at Swampscott High School and Deerfield Academy. At Boston College, he set school records for receptions (87) and receiving yards (1,325). He also played two seasons of college basketball under Bob Cousy and was a member of the BC team that made the Elite Eight in 1967.
Coaching
After graduating, Gallup accepting a teaching position in Swampscott, Massachusetts and worked as BC's assistant freshman football coach after school hours.{{cite news |title=Gallup Joins B.C. Staff |work=The Boston Globe |date=August 21, 1969}} In 1973, he succeeded John Petercuskie as the Eagles' defensive line coach.{{cite news |last1=Concannon |first1=Joe |title=BC's Gallup waits--good things come |work=The Boston Globe |date=May 11, 1973}} In 1981, he was a frontrunner from the head coaching job, but the school chose to hire Maine head coach and former BC assistant Jack Bicknell instead.{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Ernie |title=Gallup victim of losing image |work=The Boston Globe |date=January 7, 1981}} Bicknell retained Gallup on his coaching staff, moving him to receivers coach and recruiting coordinator.{{cite news |last1=Monahan |first1=Bob |title=Bicknell Has Full Staff For D Day |work=The Boston Globe |date=February 18, 1981}}
As BC's primary recruiter, Gallup helped bring Doug Flutie, Joe Nash, Fred Smerlas and Peter Cronan to the school and was a key builder of the BC teams that played in the 1982 Tangerine Bowl, 1983 Liberty Bowl, 1985 Cotton Bowl, and 1986 Hall of Fame Bowl. As receivers coach, he coached several future professional players, including Brian Brennan, Mark Chmura, Kelvin Martin, Pete Mitchell, Tom Waddle, and Darren Flutie.{{cite book |title=Boston College Football 2007 Media Guide |page=87 |url=https://archive.org/details/boston-college-football-2007-media-guide/page/n87/mode/2up |access-date=9 February 2025}}
After being passed over for the head coaching job again after Bicknell's firing, Gallup left BC to become the head football coach at Northeastern.{{cite news |last1=Ryan |first1=Bob |title=Marooned at BC, Gallup gets head start at NU |work=The Boston Globe |date=December 13, 1990}} He inherited a team that went 1-10 and led them to a 4-7 record in his first year.{{cite news |last1=MacMullin |first1=Jackie |title=Gallup to Take NU Job Today |work=The Boston Globe |date=December 12, 1990}} The team improved to 5-5-1 in 1992. He had his first winning season (6-5) in 1996 and followed it up with an 8-3 record the following year. He retired from coaching in 2000 to accept an administrative role at Boston College.
Administration
Gallup was considered for the head coaching position at Harvard after Joe Restic announced his retirement prior to the 1993 season, but he instead chose to become Northeastern's athletic director while remaining football coach.{{cite news |last1=Vega |first1=Michael |last2=Monahan |first2=Bob |title=Gallup to be NU AD: He'll still coach; Cohen to stay on |work=The Boston Globe |date=August 17, 1993}} During his tenure as AD, Northeastern earned NCAA certification and hired men's hockey coach Bruce Crowder and men's basketball coach Dave Leitao. He resigned in December 1996 to focus on coaching.{{cite news |last1=Monahan |first1=Bob |title=NU's Gallup gives up AD title: City Edition |work=The Boston Globe |date=December 17, 1996}}
In 2000, Gallup returned to Boston College as assistant athletic director for football operations.{{cite news |last1=Vega |first1=Michael |title=BC Brings Gallup Back |work=The Boston Globe |date=May 3, 2000}} In 2013, he became the senior associate athletic director for football and alumni relations. In 2021, Boston College named its new football medical center the Barry Gallup '69 Sports Medicine Center.{{cite news |last1=Weitzer |first1=Nathaniel |title=Boston College names its new football medical center for Barry Gallup |work=The Boston Globe |date=June 10, 2021}} He retired in 2022 after 46 years with the football program.{{cite web |title=Barry Gallup to Retire After 46 Years with Boston College Football |url=https://bceagles.com/news/2022/7/11/barry-gallup-to-retire-after-46-years-with-boston-college-football |website=BC Eagles |publisher=Boston College |access-date=9 February 2025}}
Personal
Gallup resides in Wellesley with wife, Victoria.{{cite news |url=http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2004/11/14/the_trajectory_of_doug_flutie?pg=full |title=The Trajectory of Doug Flutie |publisher=Boston.com |last=Page |first=Janice |date=November 14, 2004 |accessdate=January 1, 2014}} Their oldest son, Darren Douglas Gallup, was going to play football at Harvard in 2003, but was killed in a motor vehicle accident his senior year at Belmont Hill School.{{cite news |last1=Megliola |first1=Lenny |title=A life remembered: Darren Gallup's death at 18 leaves an irreplaceable void |url=https://www.milforddailynews.com/story/sports/2003/02/23/a-life-remembered-darren-gallup/41178624007/ |access-date=9 February 2025 |work=Milford Daly News |date=February 22, 2003}} Their youngest son, Barry Jr., played football at Notre Dame.{{cite journal |last1=Wolfson |first1=John |title=What I've Learned: Barry Gallup '69 |journal=Boston College Magazine |issue=Winter 2023 |url=https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/sites/bc-magazine/winter-2023-issue/bob/what-i-ve-learned--barry-gallup--69.html |access-date=9 February 2025}} Daughter Lisa Ann Gallup died at the age of 26 from cancer.{{cite web |title=Eagles Mourn Loss of Lisa Gallup |url=https://bceagles.com/news/2012/12/20/Eagles_Mourn_Loss_of_Lisa_Gallup |website=BC Eagles |publisher=Boston College |access-date=9 February 2025}}
Head coaching record
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Northeastern Huskies
| conf = NCAA Division I-AA independent
| startyear = 1991
| endyear = 1992
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1991
| name = Northeastern
| overall = 4–7
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| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1992
| name = Northeastern
| overall = 5–5–1
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Northeastern Huskies
| conf = Yankee Conference
| startyear = 1993
| endyear = 1996
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1993
| name = Northeastern
| overall = 2–9
| conference = 2–6
| confstanding = 5th (New England)
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1994
| name = Northeastern
| overall = 2–9
| conference = 2–6
| confstanding = T–4th (New England)
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1995
| name = Northeastern
| overall = 4–7
| conference = 2–6
| confstanding = T–5th (New England)
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1996
| name = Northeastern
| overall = 6–5
| conference = 3–5
| confstanding = 5th (New England)
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Northeastern Huskies
| conf = Atlantic 10 Conference
| startyear = 1997
| endyear = 1998
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1997
| name = Northeastern
| overall = 8–3
| conference = 5–3
| confstanding = 3rd (New England)
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1998
| name = Northeastern
| overall = 5–6
| conference = 3–5
| confstanding = 5th (New England)
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1999
| name = Northeastern
| overall = 2–9
| conference = 1–7
| confstanding = T–10th (New England)
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Northeastern
| overall = 38–60–1
| confrecord = 18–38
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
| overall = 38–60–1
| bowls = no
| poll = no
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| legend = no
}}
References
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