1. Rex Edward Enright was an American football and basketball player, coach, and college athletics administrator.
11 Facts About Rex Enright
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Rex Enright played college football and college basketball at the University of Notre Dame in the 1920s.
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Rex Enright graduated from Central High School in Rockford, where he played on the 1918 state champion basketball team, and was team captain and played running back on the football team.
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Rex Enright then graduated from the University of Notre Dame where he played running back for Knute Rockne on the football team, and played on the Irish basketball team.
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Rex Enright played fullback for the Green Bay Packers in 1926 and 1927.
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Rex Enright completed his service in the navy in 1946, and returned to the Gamecocks as head football coach succeeding John D McMillan, and remained until 1955 when he resigned for health reasons.
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Rex Enright hired Warren Giese as his successor, and continued as athletic director until 1960.
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Rex Enright was considered one of the "ring leaders" in the formation of the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1953.
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Rex Enright died on April 6,1960, from peptic ulcers and rheumatic heart lesions, at Columbia Hospital in Columbia, South Carolina.
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Rex Enright had been admitted to the hospital a week earlier.
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Rex Enright is a member of the South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame.