Dale Laverne Gentry (July 2, 1917 – June 27, 1968) was an American football end.

He played college football at Washington State College in Pullman under head coach Babe Hollingbery,[2] and was selected by the Associated Press as a first-team end on the All-Pacific Coast team in 1941.

[1][3] He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II,[3] and played on the Saint Mary's Pre-Flight Air Devils football team.

[3] Gentry was an assistant at his alma mater under head coach Al Kircher in the 1950s,[4] and later the athletic director at the state penitentiary in Walla Walla.

[1] Gentry died at age 50 in Portland, Oregon, from a heart attack, one day after his teenage son was killed in an automobile accident.