Soccer followers discovered this week {that a} former Michigan star and NFL first-round choose has handed away on the age of 73.
From 1970-1973, Dave Gallagher was a standout defensive deal with for the Michigan Wolverines. He earned All-American and All-Large Ten honors in 1973, solidifying his standing as a top-tier prospect. The Chicago Bears finally chosen him with the twentieth general choose within the 1974 NFL Draft.
Gallagher spent one yr with the Bears earlier than making his manner over to the Large Apple. After two seasons with the New York Giants, he introduced his retirement from soccer and returned to the College of Michigan to pursue a doctorate in medication. Though he briefly returned to the NFL to swimsuit up for the Detroit Lions, he ended up getting concerned within the medical area identical to his father.
“It wasn’t a lot that I knew what a physician did, how he cared for individuals once they have been sick, it was simply that I admired my father a lot and noticed the respect he obtained from the neighborhood,” Gallagher mentioned.
Sadly, it wasn’t found till this week that Gallagher handed away. It seems he died at his residence in Indiana on Jan. 20.
Gallagher’s obituary revealed that he is survived by his former spouse Carole, his daughter Bryn, sons Pat and Drew, his brother John, and his 5 grandchildren.
“Dr. David Dillon Gallagher, 73, of Columbus, Indiana, handed away on January 20, 2025, at his residence in Columbus,” his obituary states. “Dr. Gallagher attended Piqua metropolis faculties and graduated from Piqua Central Excessive College in 1970. He attended the College of Michigan on a soccer scholarship and was a consensus School All American in 1973. He had deliberate to attend medical faculty, however determined to forgo that to play skilled soccer. He later completed medical faculty on the College of Michigan as an orthopedic surgeon and practiced medication in Ann Arbor, Michigan and, for a few years, in Columbus, Indiana.”
There isn’t any query Gallagher left his mark as an NFL participant and orthopedic surgeon.
