:Rex Gary

{{Short description|American football, basketball, and baseball coach}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox college coach

| name = Rex Gary

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1893|2|28}}

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| death_date = {{Death date|1968|5|4|1893|2|28}}

| death_place = Sarasota, Florida, U.S.

| alma_mater =

| player_sport1 = Football

| player_years2 = 1913–1914

| player_team2 = Illinois College

| player_positions = Quarterback

| coach_sport1 = Football

| coach_years2 = 1919–1920

| coach_team2 = Wheaton (IL)

| coach_sport3 = Basketball

| coach_years4 = 1919–1921

| coach_team4 = Wheaton (IL)

| coach_sport5 = Baseball

| coach_years6 = 1921

| coach_team6 = Wheaton (IL)

| overall_record = 6–6 (football)
17–7 (basketball)
3–7 (baseball)

| bowl_record =

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| championships = Football
1 IIAC (1920)

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Rex Inglis Gary Sr. (February 28, 1893 – May 4, 1968) was an American college football, college basketball, and college baseball coach, executive for the Boy Scouts of America, and United States Army officer. He served as the head football coach at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois for two seasons, from 1919 to 1920, compiling a record of 6–6.{{cite web |author= |title=Wheaton Football Coaching Records |url=https://athletics.wheaton.edu/sports/2015/8/14/FB_0814150358.aspx?id=416 |publisher=Wheaton College |access-date=January 3, 2025 }}{{cite news |author= |title=The Sport Log |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-joseph-gazette/162153652/ |newspaper=St. Joseph Gazette |location=St. Joseph, Missouri |date=January 27, 1929 |page=11B |access-date=January 3, 2025 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }} Gary was also the head basketball coach at Wheaton for two seasons, from 1919 to 1921, tallying a mark of 17–7, and the school's baseball coach in 1921, leading his team to a record of 3–7.{{cite web |author= |title=Men's Basketball Coaching Records |url=https://athletics.wheaton.edu/sports/2020/3/23/mens-basketball-coaching-records.aspx?id=550 |publisher=Wheaton College |access-date=January 3, 2025 }}{{cite web |author= |title=Baseball Coaching Records |url=https://athletics.wheaton.edu/sports/2019/7/17/baseball-coaching-records.aspx?id=522 |publisher=Wheaton College |access-date=January 3, 2025 }}

Gary attended Alton High School in Alton, Illinois, where he played football. He then went to Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois, where he played football as a quarterback in 1913 and 1914.{{cite news |author= |title=Sport News; Illinois Wins From Shurtleff |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/alton-evening-telegraph/162183535/ |newspaper=Alton Evening Telegraph |location=Alton, Illinois |date=November 24, 1913 |page=6 |access-date=January 3, 2025 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}{{cite news |author= |title=Shurtleff Takes Beating 66-0 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/alton-evening-telegraph/162183382/ |newspaper=Alton Evening Telegraph |location=Alton, Illinois |date=October 24, 1914 |page=7 |access-date=January 3, 2025 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }} In 1919, Gary, then a U.S. Army lieutenant, was listed as slighted wounded by the United States Department of War.{{cite news |author= |title=[untitled] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/alton-evening-telegraph/162183312/ |newspaper=Alton Evening Telegraph |location=Alton, Illinois |date=June 12, 1919 |page=5 |access-date=January 3, 2025 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}

In 1935, Gary left St. Joseph, Missouri to work for the Boy Scouts's Valley Forge Council of Philadelphia. He was later executive of the Pony Express Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Gary was killed on May 4, 1968, in an automobile accident in Sarasota, Florida.{{cite news |author= |title=Former Scout Executive Rex Gary Dies in Crash |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-joseph-news-press-obituary-for-rex-i/162153774/ |newspaper=St. Joseph News-Press |location=St. Joseph, Missouri |date=May 8, 1968 |page=7A |access-date=January 3, 2025 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }} He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.{{cite web |author= |title=Army Cemeteries Explorer |url=https://ancexplorer.army.mil/publicwmv/index.html#/search-all/results/1/CgRHYXJ5EgNSZXg-/ |publisher=United States Army |access-date=January 3, 2025 }}