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{{Short description|American football player and coach, baseball umpire (1900β1977)}} {{Use American English|date=April 2020}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2019}} {{Infobox NFL biography | image = Cal Hubbard Football.jpg | number = 41, 39, 40, 38, 27, 51, 35, 60 | position = [[Tackle (gridiron football position)|Tackle]] | birth_date = {{Birth date|1900|10|31}} | birth_place = [[Keytesville, Missouri]], U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1977|10|17|1900|10|31}} | death_place = [[St. Petersburg, Florida]], U.S. | height_ft = 6 | height_in = 2 | weight_lbs = 253 | high_school = Glasgow ([[Glasgow, Missouri]]) | college = [[Centenary Gentlemen football|Centenary]] (1922β1924)<br>[[Geneva Golden Tornadoes football|Geneva]] (1925β1926) | teams = * [[New York Giants]] ({{NFL Year|1927}}β{{NFL Year|1928}}) * [[Green Bay Packers]] ({{NFL Year|1929}}β{{NFL Year|1933}}, {{NFL Year|1935}}) * New York Giants ({{NFL Year|1936}}) * [[Pittsburgh Pirates (NFL)|Pittsburgh Pirates]] ({{NFL Year|1936}}) | pastcoaching = * [[Texas A&M Aggies football|Texas A&M]] (1934)<br/>Line coach * [[Geneva Golden Tornadoes football|Geneva]] (1942)<br/>Head coach | highlights = * 4Γ [[NFL champion]] (1927, 1929β1931) * 4Γ First-team [[All-Pro]] (1927, 1931β1933) * [[NFL 1920s All-Decade Team]] * [[National Football League 50th Anniversary All-Time Team|NFL 50th Anniversary All-Time Team]] * [[NFL 75th Anniversary All-Time Team]] * [[NFL 100th Anniversary All-Time Team]] * [[Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame]] *Grantland Rice's All-Time All-America *Centenary College Athletic Hall of Fame *[[Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame]] *[[Missouri Sports Hall of Fame]] *[[Baseball Hall of Fame]] *Helms Foundation Hall of Fame | pfr = HubbCa20 | CollegeHOF = 1344 | HOF = robert-cal-hubbard | statlabel1 = Games played | statvalue1 = 105 | statlabel2 = Games started | statvalue2 = 77 }} '''Robert Calvin Hubbard''' (October 31, 1900 β October 17, 1977) was an American professional [[American football|football]] player and [[Major League Baseball]] (MLB) [[umpire (baseball)|umpire]]. After playing [[college football]] at [[Centenary College of Louisiana|Centenary College]] and [[Geneva College]], Hubbard played in the [[National Football League]] (NFL) between 1927 and 1936 for the [[New York Giants]], [[Green Bay Packers]] and [[Pittsburgh Pirates (NFL)|Pittsburgh Pirates]], playing the bulk of his career with the Packers.<ref name=Packers/> Hubbard is credited as being one of the inventors of the football position of [[linebacker]].<ref name="SI">{{cite magazine|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1005598/index.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130628231816/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1005598/index.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 28, 2013|title=Early Master:Cal Hubbard|last=Reed|first=William F.|date=September 5, 1994|magazine=Sports Illustrated|access-date=April 7, 2013}}</ref> He was also an umpire in the [[American League]] (AL) from 1936 to 1951, then worked as an umpire supervisor until 1969. [[George Halas]] affectionately called Hubbard the "Big Umpire."<ref name=bigumpire/> To date, Hubbard is the only person to be enshrined in both the [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]] and [[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum|Baseball Hall of Fame]]. He is also a member of the [[College Football Hall of Fame]].
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