NFF Chris Schenkel Award Recipients
Biography
The late Yale broadcaster Dick Galiette built a reputation as the consummate professional – right down to the perfectly starched shirts and tie he wore on game days a the Yale Bowl. Over 33 seasons during two different eras – 1963-87 and 1997-2005 – Galiette became a fixture in the press box as the play-by-play man or Yale football radio broadcasts.
Galiette was a seven-time winner of the Connecticut Sportscaster of the Year Award and served as the sports director of WTNH-TV for 18 years in New Haven. He also worked the broadcast call for ABC college football games on occasion and during its beginning, anchored ESPN’s SportsCenter in the early 1980s. He did charitable work in drug and violence prevention among young athletes. Galiette passed away Oct. 21, 2005, at the age of 72.
