University of San Francisco Athletics

Jack Gaddy was on born February 13, 1909 in Kelseyville, CA, and attended his local Kelseyville High School. Gaddy attended the then Saint Ignatius College on a baseball scholarship in the class of 1932, during its transition to USF. He was a versatile athlete, lettering not only in baseball, but in football and basketball as well. Gaddy was excellent at defensive blocking in football and in basketball. He played three years of varsity baseball, and also played on the 1929 Pacific Association Championship basketball team.
 
After a knee injury in a 1930 game against Nevada, Gaddy did not return to basketball until the 1931-1932 season. However, he was well enough to play baseball and did so for the next two seasons. He played right field and was a three-time All-Coast Baseball choice. In 1933, he received an All-American Honorable Mention from Look magazine. 
 
In football, he was nicknamed the “Kelseyville Tiger,”often displaying dazzling speed in 20 or 30-yard runs for a touchdown. In a 1931 game against Army, he scored the one and only touchdown of the game. The Foghorn article on that game stated that “it was his work that kept USF in the ball game…with his bad knees, the soldiers forgot all about one of the coast’s best flank men, and, in one of their lapses, Gaddy shook the kinks out of the old leg, snared a pass meant for some Army men, and galloped 30 yards to score.” He captained the team in 1932, and was named All-American Honorable Mention in 1931 and in 1932.
 
During World War II, Gaddy joined the United States Navy as an officer and served as Athletic Director and Physical Education Trainer for the fighter pilots. Following the war, he returned to San Francisco, and had a 37-year career as a teacher, coach, and Athletic Director at City College of San Francisco. In the 1950s, Gaddy served as a national football referee.