The Gary Elks were an Independent American football team that played four seasons. From 1920 to 1923.

They 1920 season was their first season. They started the season with a 40–0 win over Forest Park Othello A.C. The win followed with 4 more wins until there was a 0–0 tie against the Chicago Thorn Tornadoes.^[1] They played their next game against the Hammond Pros, an APFA team. They won the game 7 to 6.^[1] They played their first six games at Emerson High School Field, before they moved to Gleason Park.^[1] They finished the season with a 8-0-1 record.^[1]

They opened the 1921 season with wins against the Evanston Washington Parks, Morocco Independents, Chicago Staym-Foresters, and Chicago Thorn-Tornadoes before losing their first ever game against Chicago Amos A.A.^[2] They had three more wins before losing to the APFA Chicago Cardinals.^[2] They won the week prior against the Hammond Pros, who they beat the year before.^[2] The next week they lost their third game of the season to the Chicago Morris Supremes.^[2]

In 1922 they had a 6-2-1 record.^[3] They had scheduled to play 4 games against NFL opponents but only played two; they played two games against the Hammond Pros, who they had played in prior years.^[3] They won one of the games against the Pros, winning it 9-6 after losing 15-0 the prior game.^[3] They played all but one of their games at Gleason Park.

1923 was their last season. They had a 2-2-2 record excluding the game against the Waukegan Elks where no records were found.^[4] They had scheduled 3 games against NFL opponents but only played one; a 7–6 loss against the Cleveland Indians.^[4]