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John "Rex" Dockery (February 7, 1942 – December 12, 1983) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Texas Tech University from 1978 to 1980 and at Memphis State University, now the University of Memphis , from 1981 to 1983, compiling a career college football record of 23–40–3.
Rex's wife, Wallene, marveled at the joy her husband had created. "It was an incredible moment," she says. It has been 20 years since Rex Dockery had folks in this city believing the football program was on the verge of great things, and since his untimely death, the program has struggled to regain that optimism.
Dec 13, 1983 · Rex Dockery, the head football coach at Memphis State University, and three others were killed tonight when their twin-engine plane crashed about 10 miles north of Lawrenceburg, authorities said.
In 1980 Dockery returned to Tennessee to take over at Memphis State University. He revitalized and rebuilt the football program and in 1983 was honored as the Metro Conference Coach of the Year. Sadly, only one week after receiving that title, Rex died in a plane crash. As testimony to the impact he had as a coach, the field at Liberty Bowl ...
Dec 15, 1983 · MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The Memphis State football family paid its last respects to football coach Rex Dockery and three other men who died in an airplane crash just two weeks before Christmas. Eight of ...
Dec 12, 1983 · LAWRENCEBURG, Tenn. -- Memphis State football coach Rex Dockery and three other people flying through rain and fog to a football banquet were killed Monday night in the crash of a twin-engine ...
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John "Rex" Dockery was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Texas Tech University from 1978 to 1980 and at Memphis State University, now the University of Memphis, from 1981 to 1983, compiling a career college football record of 23–40–3.
