B.J. Gallis

B.J. Gallis was North Pocono’s quarterback on the 12-0 team that won the 1991 Eastern Conference championship. The Times-Tribune’s Teams of the Times story says he threw for 765 yards and nine touchdowns that season. In the Eastern Conference final he hit Keith Olsommer for the 6-yard touchdown that set up Ryan McGee’s 2-point run in the 22-21 win over Berwick.

The Nov. 28, 2015, Times-Tribune profile says that after the 1991 championship he played at Lafayette and made the third-team Associated Press and Sports Network All-America squads. His senior season, 1996, he had a team-high 115 tackles, three interceptions, three forced fumbles, and three fumble recoveries. He was the Patriot League Defensive Player of the Year and won the Charles L. Albert Award, given to the most outstanding athlete in all of Lafayette sports.

He was inducted into the Leopards’ Hall of Fame on Nov. 20, 2015. The story has 309 career tackles from strong safety, 11 interceptions, and 33 consecutive starts. He helped Lafayette win a Patriot title in 1994 and was named to the league’s 15th and 25th anniversary teams.

The same story says he then played in the Canadian Football League. In 1997 he was the CFL’s Western Division rookie of the year with the Edmonton Eskimos, who moved him from safety to linebacker.