Rex Hunsaker

Rex Jesse Hunsaker (December 13, 1909 – March 20, 1994) was an American football coach and athletic administrator. He was the head football coach at Oregon Institute of Technology from 1950 to 1951 and the school's athletic director from 1953 to 1962. He also held multiple high school coaching positions in Utah, Idaho, and Oregon.

Early years Hunsaker was born in Honeyville, Utah, in 1909. He attended Utah State University where he earned varsity letters in football and basketball. He graduated from Utah State in 1936. He then attended graduate school at the University of Idaho.

After World War II, Hunsaker coached at Albany High School in Albany, Oregon. He served as athletic director, football coach, and baseball coach at Albany. He was Albany's head football coach from 1945 to 1949, compiling a 27–13–8 record, including a 9–1 record in 1948.

Hunsaker was hired in April 1950 as head football coach at Oregon Institute of Technology (Oregon Tech) in Klamath Falls, Oregon.

Family and later years Hunsaker married Viola Hammond in 1939 in Logan, Utah.

In May 1962, Hunsaker resigned his post at Oregon Tech to become principal at Lakeview High School in Lakeview, Oregon.

Hunsaker died in 1994 in Pleasanton, California. He was buried at Lincoln Memorial Park in Portland, Oregon.

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