Benny Pierce was CCS’s all-time leader in wins when he retired as Saratoga’s coach. Chon Gallegos coached future pros, including Jim Plunkett.
Many years after Benny Pierce retired as Saratoga High’s football coach, the school held a class reunion during a fall weekend.Pierce walked into Saratoga’s team room with many of his former players from the reunited class and gave the current team a pregame address.“To see how these grown men just revered him, the look in their eyes when he was talking to those kids, those guys turned 16 years old again,” Lugo said Monday. “You could see how much they loved him.
Pierce is the second former longtime South Bay high school football coach to die this year. Chon Gallegos, who coached Jim Plunkett at James Lick in the 1960s and was the head coach at Santa Teresa from 1974-92, died on Jan. 17. He was 83.In 34 seasons as Saratoga’s varsity coach, Pierce finished with 269 wins, 84 losses and four ties, according to records kept by Cal-Hi Sports.
Pierce, in retirement, spent much of his time on a golf course, attending high school football games and staying in touch with former players and coaching colleagues. Machado described Pierce as a smart coach who stuck to what he believed in. Their friendship was more than X’s and O’s. Gallegos, who starred at Lick, went on to play one season for the Oakland Raiders, throwing for two TDs over six games in 1962.“Hell of an athlete,” Buller said about his friend, Gallegos. “Led the nation in passing his senior year and won the Pop Warner Award. And every time he picked up a golf club, he shot it in the 80s. When he was in his prime, he was a one- or two- or three-handicap golfer. He was really good.
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