Members
Inductee
SPEER, GIL
SPEER, GIL
Born on August 5, 1960
Seymour, Indiana
Inducted On
June 20, 2025
Location Inducted
Fishers, Indiana
Region Number
6
Hamilton Southeastern / Franklin College
Coach
Brownstown Central High School
1978
Gil was an offensive lineman and linebacker for Brownstown Central from 1974 to 1977. He was an Honorable Mention All-Conference Center. During his career at Brownstown, they were District 12 Champions and the first team to reach the play-offs in the "cluster" system in the Class A Playoffs with an 8-3 record while earning a Top Ten ranking in Class A.
Hanover College, Indiana University
BA in Business Administration, MS in Business Education
B.A. 1982, M.S. 1985
At Hanover, Gil played Guard and Center. In 1978, Hanover was "Hoosier Buckeye Conference Champions with a 6-2-1 record. In 1979, they repeated as conference champs with a record of 7-2. In 1980, they won their third straight Hoosier Buckeye Conference Championship as well as qualifying for the NAIA National Championship Playoffs with an 8-2 record. In 1981 Gil won the "Dutch Struck Mental Attitude Award".
Gil was on staff for Indiana in 1983, when they won the "Old Oaken Bucket". In 1995 & 1996, Hamilton Southeastern was Range Line Conference Champions with 11-1 and 9-2 records, respectively. In 1997, HSE played in the Class 4A State Championship game earning a 13-3 record. He has been a part of 5 sectional championships, two at HSE and two at Zionsville. In 2002, Zionsville was Hoosier Crossroads Champions, 4A Sectional and Regional Champs going 10-2.
During his college coaching career, Franklin College was 4-time Heartland Conference Champions and 3-time D3 National Playoff participants.
In 2002, Gil was a coach in the IFCA North-South All-Star Game. He was also a member of the IFCA Executive Board, as the Director of Continuing Education.
In 2018, He received the IFCA Ken Leffler Award.
Gil has been a member of the American Football Coaches Association for 35 years.
Gil and his wife Juli (Butler University) have two sons: Carter, and his wife Arianna have one son, Deacon, and their other son, Nolan, a Purdue University graduate with a BS in Agri-Business.
Gil was a Graduate Assistant for Sam Wyche in 1983 and Bill Mallory in 1984.