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==Early life and college== Cal Hubbard was born in [[Keytesville, Missouri]] to parents Robert P. and Sarah "Sallie" (Ford) Hubbard.<ref name=MSHS>{{cite web|url=http://shs.umsystem.edu/historicmissourians/name/h/hubbard/index.html|title=Robert Calvin Hubbard bio|publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri via website|year=2013|access-date=April 5, 2013|archive-date=November 9, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109022037/http://shs.umsystem.edu/historicmissourians/name/h/hubbard/index.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> He grew up in modest means as the son of a small family farmer. Cal graduated from Keytesville High School, but because the school had no football team he also attended one year at Glasgow High School in nearby [[Glasgow, Missouri|Glasgow]], which did offer football.<ref name=MSHS/> Already tall and weighing 200 pounds as a 14-year-old, Hubbard displayed natural athletic gifts. He aspired to attend the [[United States Military Academy]] at [[West Point, New York]]; however a physical discovered he had [[flat feet]], eliminating him from eligibility.<ref name=MSHS/> From an early age Hubbard was involved with sports. He umpired pickup baseball games at the age of 18.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5339554/cal_hubbard_dies_upi/|work=York Daily Record|page=15|date=October 18, 1977|title=Cal Hubbard, 76, Dies|access-date=May 21, 2016|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} {{Open access}}</ref> Hubbard chose to attend a college or university that offered football, selecting [[Chillicothe Business College]] in [[Chillicothe, Missouri]]<ref name=MSHS/> while also continuing to work around his family farm.<ref name=SI/> A chance meeting in 1922 with [[Bo McMillin]], the new football coach at [[Centenary Gentlemen football|Centenary College]] in [[Shreveport, Louisiana]], led Hubbard to enroll and play football there from [[1922 Centenary Gentlemen football team|1922]] to [[1924 Centenary Gentlemen football team|1924]].<ref name=MSHS/> Hubbard was the school's first All-American.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lasportshall.com/inductees/football/robert-cal-hubbard/?back=inductee|title=Robert|work=Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame}}</ref> [[Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football|Georgia Tech]] coach [[William Alexander (coach)|Bill Alexander]] once watched Centenary when it was in town to play [[Oglethorpe Stormy Petrels football|Oglethorpe]]. "Bo, this Oglethorpe bunch has fast backs, but the line is light and green. If you turn that Hubbard loose, he might kill some of them. Have Cal 'hurt his knee', why don't you, and let him sit on the bench?"<ref>{{cite book|author=Edwin Pope|author-link=Edwin Pope|title=Football's Greatest Coaches|page=10}}</ref> When McMillin moved on to suburban [[Pittsburgh]]'s [[Geneva Golden Tornadoes football|Geneva College]], Hubbard followed him and played there in [[1926 Geneva Golden Tornadoes football team|1926]] (after a year of ineligibility for switching schools in 1925). Geneva opened the season with an upset of [[1926 Harvard Crimson football team|Harvard]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5341943/cal_hubard_chooses_pro_grid_team/|author=Henry McLemore|title=Cal Hubbard Chooses Star Pro Grid Team|page=15|date=April 26, 1937|access-date=May 22, 2016|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|work=Oshkosh Daily Northwestern}} {{Open access}}</ref> In an era when 6-foot players were considered tall, Hubbard was noted for remarkable speed for a player of his size, listed officially at 6-foot-2, 253 pounds but as high as 6-foot-5 in Packers' sources.<ref name=Packers/> He starred as a [[defensive tackle|tackle]] and [[end (American football)|end]], playing off the 7-man line in a style similar to that of a modern [[linebacker]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ueY58Dlnn30C&pg=PA62|author=Richard Whittingham|title=What a Game They Played: An Inside Look at the Golden Era of Pro Football|date=January 2001|page=62|publisher=U of Nebraska Press |isbn=0803298196}}</ref> Hubbard completed his college education in 1927, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from Geneva College.<ref name=MSHS/>
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