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Byron Gentry

Byron Gentry
Position: Guard
Personal information
Date of birth: (1913-10-20)October 20, 1913
Place of birth: Washington
Date of death: February 10, 1992(1992-02-10) (aged 78)
Career information
College: USC
Career history
Career highlights and awards
Career NFL statistics
Games played: 25
Games started: 24
Player stats at NFL.com
Games played: 25
Games started: 24
Player stats at NFL.com

Byron Burk Gentry (October 20, 1913 – February 10, 1992) was a professional American football guard in the National Football League. He played three seasons for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Gentry played college football at the University of Southern California where he was also a member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. At USC, he played on the 1931 and 1932 Rose Bowl championship teams. He was a decorated soldier, rising to the rank of Capitan, and serving as an intelligence officer in World War II. He later was a state and national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Gentry's post-football career was in the law and he was city attorney of Pasadena, California for sixteen years. He was also a published writer and poet.



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