:Guy B. Gardner

{{Short description|American football coach and college athletics administrator}}

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{{Infobox college coach

| name = Guy B. Gardner

| image = Guy B Gardner.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Gardner pictured in The Lasso 1955, Howard Payne yearbook

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1920|3|18}}

| birth_place = Idabel, Oklahoma, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1980|12|11|1920|3|18}}

| death_place = Bonham, Texas, U.S.

| alma_mater =

| coach_years1 = 1951–1952

| coach_team1 = Borger HS (TX)

| coach_years2 = 1953–1955

| coach_team2 = Howard Payne

| admin_years1 = 1953–1956

| admin_team1 = Howard Payne

| overall_record = 18–9–2 (college)

| bowl_record =

| tournament_record =

| championships = 1 Texas Conference (1954)

| awards =

| coaching_records =

}}

Guy Burruss Gardner (March 18, 1920 – December 11, 1980)http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/h/a/Ruby-D-Sharp/GENE5-0007.html {{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=September 2022}} was an American football coach and college athletics administrator. He was the eighth head football coach at Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas, serving for three seasons, from 1953 to 1955, and compiling a record of 18–9–2.[http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iii/asc/howard_payne/coaching_records.php Howard Payne University coaching records] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905231010/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iii/asc/howard_payne/coaching_records.php |date=September 5, 2008 }} Gardner came to Howard Payne from Borger High School in Borger, Texas, where was head football coach in 1951 and 1952.{{cite news |author= |title=Football Coach At Borger High Quits |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35049916/lubbock_evening_journal/ |newspaper=Lubbock Evening Journal |location=Lubbock, Texas |agency=United Press |date=March 26, 1953 |page=1 |access-date=August 18, 2019 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }} He died after a long illness in 1980.