Obituary:
Paul Hubbard Once Deaf Coach Dies
Paul Hubbard, 75, for forty-three years an instructor in the Kansas State School for the Deaf, here, and its first athletic director, died Thursday night at the home, 320 West Elm street. He has been ill three months.
Mr. Hubbard organized the first football team at the school the year following his graduation from Gallaudet college, Washington, in 1899. He received his earlier education at the Colorado State School for the Deaf. He was born and reared at Atchison, Kas.
At Gallaudet, a college for deaf persons, he was an outstanding athlete, and played quarterback on its first football teams. Since the players were deaf, Hubbard devised the huddle system for calling plays and is generally credited with being the first to use it.
He coached at the Kansas school several years and his teams made consistently good records. He finally turned the athletic duties over to a younger successor and devoted the remainder of his years at the school to classroom teaching. He retires in 1942. The school's football field is named in his honor.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Caroline B. Hubbard, Olathe, and two sisters, Mrs. Susan Martin, Golden, Colo., and Mrs. Trixie Purcell Denver. Services were held at 2 o'clock Saturday at the Julien chapel, Olathe. Burial was in the Olathe cemetery.
Paul Hubbard Once Deaf Coach Dies
Paul Hubbard, 75, for forty-three years an instructor in the Kansas State School for the Deaf, here, and its first athletic director, died Thursday night at the home, 320 West Elm street. He has been ill three months.
Mr. Hubbard organized the first football team at the school the year following his graduation from Gallaudet college, Washington, in 1899. He received his earlier education at the Colorado State School for the Deaf. He was born and reared at Atchison, Kas.
At Gallaudet, a college for deaf persons, he was an outstanding athlete, and played quarterback on its first football teams. Since the players were deaf, Hubbard devised the huddle system for calling plays and is generally credited with being the first to use it.
He coached at the Kansas school several years and his teams made consistently good records. He finally turned the athletic duties over to a younger successor and devoted the remainder of his years at the school to classroom teaching. He retires in 1942. The school's football field is named in his honor.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Caroline B. Hubbard, Olathe, and two sisters, Mrs. Susan Martin, Golden, Colo., and Mrs. Trixie Purcell Denver. Services were held at 2 o'clock Saturday at the Julien chapel, Olathe. Burial was in the Olathe cemetery.
Obituary:
Paul Hubbard Once Deaf Coach Dies
Paul Hubbard, 75, for forty-three years an instructor in the Kansas State School for the Deaf, here, and its first athletic director, died Thursday night at the home, 320 West Elm street. He has been ill three months.
Mr. Hubbard organized the first football team at the school the year following his graduation from Gallaudet college, Washington, in 1899. He received his earlier education at the Colorado State School for the Deaf. He was born and reared at Atchison, Kas.
At Gallaudet, a college for deaf persons, he was an outstanding athlete, and played quarterback on its first football teams. Since the players were deaf, Hubbard devised the huddle system for calling plays and is generally credited with being the first to use it.
He coached at the Kansas school several years and his teams made consistently good records. He finally turned the athletic duties over to a younger successor and devoted the remainder of his years at the school to classroom teaching. He retires in 1942. The school's football field is named in his honor.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Caroline B. Hubbard, Olathe, and two sisters, Mrs. Susan Martin, Golden, Colo., and Mrs. Trixie Purcell Denver. Services were held at 2 o'clock Saturday at the Julien chapel, Olathe. Burial was in the Olathe cemetery.
Paul Hubbard Once Deaf Coach Dies
Paul Hubbard, 75, for forty-three years an instructor in the Kansas State School for the Deaf, here, and its first athletic director, died Thursday night at the home, 320 West Elm street. He has been ill three months.
Mr. Hubbard organized the first football team at the school the year following his graduation from Gallaudet college, Washington, in 1899. He received his earlier education at the Colorado State School for the Deaf. He was born and reared at Atchison, Kas.
At Gallaudet, a college for deaf persons, he was an outstanding athlete, and played quarterback on its first football teams. Since the players were deaf, Hubbard devised the huddle system for calling plays and is generally credited with being the first to use it.
He coached at the Kansas school several years and his teams made consistently good records. He finally turned the athletic duties over to a younger successor and devoted the remainder of his years at the school to classroom teaching. He retires in 1942. The school's football field is named in his honor.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Caroline B. Hubbard, Olathe, and two sisters, Mrs. Susan Martin, Golden, Colo., and Mrs. Trixie Purcell Denver. Services were held at 2 o'clock Saturday at the Julien chapel, Olathe. Burial was in the Olathe cemetery.
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Burial: 29-Jun-1946
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