DeHart Hubbard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American long jumper
Date of Birth: 25-Nov-1903
Place of Birth: Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Date of Death: 23-Jun-1976
Profession: athletics competitor
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About DeHart Hubbard
- William DeHart Hubbard (November 25, 1903 – June 23, 1976) was a track and field athlete who was the first African American to win an Olympic gold medal in an individual event: the running long jump at the 1924 Paris Summer games. He subsequently set a long jump world record of 25 feet 10 3/4 inches (7.89 m) at Chicago in June 1925 and equaled the world record of 9.6 seconds for the 100-yard dash at Cincinnati, Ohio a year later. He attended and graduated from Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati, graduated with honors from the University of Michigan in 1927 where he was a three-time National Collegiate Athletic Association champion (1923 & 1925 outdoor long jump, 1925 100-yard dash) and seven-time Big Ten Conference champion in track and field (1923 & 1925 indoor 50-yard dash, 1923, 1924, & 1925 outdoor long jump, 1924 & 1925 outdoor 100-yard dash).
- His 1925 outdoor long jump of 25 feet 10 1/2 inches (7.89 m) stood as the Michigan Wolverines team record until 1980, and it still stands second.
- His 1925 jump of 25 feet 3 1/2 inches (7.71 m) stood as a Big Ten Championships record until Jesse Owens broke it on with what is now the current record of 26 feet 8 1/4 inches (8.13 m) in 1935.Upon college graduation, he accepted a position as the supervisor of the Department of Colored Work for the Cincinnati Public Recreation Commission.
- He remained in this position until 1941.
- He then accepted a job as the manager of Valley Homes, a public housing project in Cincinnati.
- In 1942 he moved to Cleveland, Ohio where he served as a race relations adviser for the Federal Housing Authority.
- He retired in 1969.
- He died in Cleveland in 1976.
- Hubbard was posthumously inducted into the University of Michigan Hall of Honor in 1979; he was part of the second class inducted into the Hall of Honor.
- He was a member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity. In addition to participating in track and field events, Hubbard also was an avid bowler.
- He served as the president of the National Bowling Association during the 1950s.
- He also founded the Cincinnati Tigers, a professional baseball team, which played in the Negro American League.
- In 1957, Hubbard was elected to the National Track Hall of Fame.
- In 2010, the Brothers of Omega Psi Phi,Incorporated, PHI Chapter established a scholarship fund honoring William DeHart Hubbard; the fund is endowed through the University of Michigan and donations can be forwarded to the University of Michigan, The William DeHart Hubbard Scholarship Fund.
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