Cal Hubbard

Baseball Umpire, American football player

1900 – 1977

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Who was Cal Hubbard?

Robert Calvin Hubbard was a professional American football player and later an umpire in Major League Baseball. A member of three major sports halls of fame, Hubbard is credited as being one of the inventors of the football position of linebacker. To date Hubbard is the only person to be enshrined in both the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the Baseball Hall of Fame. He is also a member of the College Football Hall of Fame.

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Born
Oct 31, 1900
Keytesville
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Geneva College
  • Centenary College of Louisiana
Lived in
  • Keytesville
Died
Oct 17, 1977
St. Petersburg

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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