Galen Cisco (2019) | Hall of Fame Inductees

Galen Cisco

Induction:
2019

Football 1912-14

Boyd Cherry, a Columbus, Ohio, native, was a three-year football letterman – 1912-14 – who played on the first Big Ten Conference (then called the Western Conference) football team in school history in 1913. Ohio State was admitted into the Western Conference in 1912, but couldn’t compete until 1913. The 1912 Ohio State team, of which Cherry was a part, won the last Ohio Athletic Conference championship in school history.

One year after that historical first season of conference play in 1913, Cherry, an end, earned the first All-America honor for the Ohio State football program while helping the Buckeyes to a 5-2 season and a 2-2 record in the conference. He earned the distinction of being the first Ohio State all-conference player in 1914, as well. Ohio State was 15-7-1 in Cherry’s time with the program. Cherry was also a three-year letterman in basketball and a member of the baseball program (1913-15), serving as team captain for both teams as a senior. He graduated in 1915.