Robert Gallery Named to College Football Hall of Fame

IRVING, Texas – Former College of Iowa offensive lineman Robert Gallery has been named to the 2023 class of the Faculty Soccer Corridor of Fame. The announcement was made Monday by the Nationwide Soccer Basis (NFF) and Faculty Corridor of Fame.

Gallery, a local of Masonville, Iowa (East Buchanan Excessive College), lettered as a Hawkeye offensive sort out from 2000-03. He earned unanimous consensus first-team All-America honors as a senior and was the recipient of the Outland Trophy, introduced yearly to the most effective offensive lineman within the nation.

Gallery was named the Huge Ten Offensive Lineman of the 12 months in 2003. He earned first-team All-Huge Ten honors in his ultimate three seasons, whereas additionally being a three-time Educational All-Huge Ten honoree.

Throughout Gallery’s ultimate three seasons, the Hawkeyes posted a 28-10 general report, together with a 17-7 mark in Huge Ten play. Gallery moved into the line-up for the ultimate six video games of his freshman season. In 2001, Iowa’s offense averaged 32.6 factors per recreation whereas ending the season with an Alamo Bowl win over Texas Tech.

The Hawkeyes shared the Huge Ten championship in 2002 with an ideal 8-0 league report, setting a college report with 11 general wins. Iowa averaged 37.2 factors per recreation as quarterback Brad Banks was the runner-up in Heisman Trophy voting.

In Gallery’s ultimate season, Iowa posted 10 wins, closing the season with a 37-17 win over Florida within the 2004 Outback Bowl. Iowa completed the season ranked eighth nationally for the second consecutive season.

Gallery was a workforce captain and Most Invaluable Participant as a senior. He was the second participant chosen within the 2004 NFL Draft by the Oakland Raiders. He performed eight NFL seasons for the Raiders and Seattle Seahawks, beginning 103 of the 104 profession video games through which he performed. He was awarded the NFL’s Ed Block Braveness Award in 2010.

Gallery is a member of Iowa’s Letterwinner’s Membership Corridor of Fame and the America Wants Farmers (ANF) Wall of Honor at Kinnick Stadium.

Gallery earned his bachelor’s diploma in elementary schooling from the College of Iowa in 2003. He and his spouse, former Iowa ladies’s basketball participant Becca McCann, reside in California with their three youngsters, Hayden, Brooklyn, and Lincoln.

Gallery is the eleventh former Hawkeye named to the Faculty Soccer Corridor of Fame, based mostly on his enjoying profession. Former Iowa gamers Earl Banks (Morgan State) and Bob Stoops (Oklahoma) are Corridor of Fame members based mostly on their school teaching careers.

5 former Hawkeye head coaches are additionally members of the Corridor of Fame, together with Eddie Anderson (1938-42, 1946-49), Forest Evashevski (1952-60), Hayden Fry (1979-98), Howard Jones (1916-23) and Slip Madigan (1943-44).