Byron Gentry

Games played:	25
Games started:	24
	Stats at Pro Football Reference

Byron Gentry
No. 18
Position:	Guard
Personal information
Born:	October 20, 1913; Brawley, Arkansas, U.S.
Died:	February 10, 1992 (aged 78); Paso Robles, California, U.S.
Career information
College:	USC
Career history
	Pittsburgh Pirates (1937–1939);
Career highlights and awards
	First-team All-Pro (1938); 2× Pro Bowl (1938, 1939); 2× National champion (1931, 1932);
Career NFL statistics
Games played:
Games played:	25
Games started:	24
	Stats at Pro Football Reference

Byron Burk Gentry (October 20, 1913 – February 10, 1992)^[1] was an American professional football guard^[2] in the National Football League (NFL). He played three seasons for the Pittsburgh Pirates.^[3]

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.^[4] He was a decorated soldier, rising to the rank of Capitan,^[5] and serving as an intelligence officer in World War II. He later was a state and national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.^[6]^[7] 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.^[8]