Serra alum Tom Brady and former De La Salle coach Bob Ladouceur are among the many 100 gamers and 13 coaches picked because the inaugural class of the California Excessive College Soccer Corridor of Fame.
The Bay Space legends are simply two of the various from the area introduced by the Rose Bowl Legacy Basis on Monday as inductees, and all 113 might be honored in November on the Rose Bowl.
Brady, whose household title is on the San Mateo college’s soccer stadium, has gone on to win seven Tremendous Bowls throughout his ongoing NFL profession. Lynn Swann, one other inductee, caught passes for Serra about twenty years earlier than Brady’s period and have become one of many engines of the Pittsburgh Steelers Tremendous Bowl dynasty within the Nineteen Seventies.
Ladouceur ended his unparalleled teaching profession with a 399-25-3 document, which included a nationwide document 151-game successful streak from 1992 to 2004. Becoming a member of him is a contingent of his former Spartans gamers. Maurice Jones-Drew performed for the legendary coach from 1999-2003, whereas Amani Toomer predated the document streak, graduating in 1992 as a Parade All-American. DJ Williams, class of 2000, rounds out De La Salle’s portion of the category.
Representing Oakland Tech is a trio of athletes who all went on to skilled soccer glory. Former NFL All-Professional quarterback and 49ers legend John Brodie additionally performed at Stanford, and Harold “Brick” Muller was considered one of professional soccer’s unique stars within the Twenties. Cal’s Marshawn Lynch starred for the college within the early-2000s and went on to stardom with the Payments, Seahawks and Raiders.
Quarterbacks have been well-represented among the many Bay Space’s contingent within the class. Norm Van Brocklin set the usual for passers within the Fifties after graduating from Acalanes. Sequoia’s Gary Beban is best-known for beating out OJ Simpson for the Heisman trophy in 1967, and James Lick alum Jim Plunkett received the award a couple of years later in 1970 whereas main Stanford. He went on to seize two Tremendous Bowl titles with the Raiders.
Former Pinole Valley star Gino Toretta earned his Heisman in 1992 after successful two nationwide championships with the Miami Hurricanes. Earlier than Dan Fouts rewrote NFL document books with the Air Coryell offense, he was a stellar highschool participant at St. Ignatius. Nello “Flash” Falaschi predated all of them, graduating from Bellarmine earlier than turning into a 1937 all-American at Santa Clara.
John Henry Johnson graduated from Pittsburg after which went on to NFL stardom as a runner within the Fifties and Sixties. Across the similar time, Gino Marchetti created the archetype of the trendy pass-rusher for the NFL’s Colts after graduating from Antioch.
Jack Del Rio attended Hayward earlier than happening to a protracted profession in soccer, and Roy Williams attended James Logan earlier than he went on to develop into one of many NFL’s hardest-hitting safeties.
Non-Bay Space inductees embody Jackie Robinson, John Elway, Reggie Bush, Warren Moon and Marcus Allen, amongst others. See the full listing right here.