Don Hutson

Don Hutson
No. 7, 14
Position: Split end
Personal information
Date of birth: (1913-01-31)January 31, 1913
Place of birth: Pine Bluff, Arkansas, U.S.
Date of death: June 26, 1997(1997-06-26) (aged 84)
Place of death: Rancho Mirage, California
Height: 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight: 183 lb (83 kg)
Career information
High school: Pine Bluff (AR)
College: Alabama
Career history
As player:
As coach:
Career highlights and awards
Career NFL statistics
Receptions: 488
Receiving yards: 7,991
Receiving touchdowns: 99
Interceptions: 30
Player stats at NFL.com

Donald Montgomery Hutson (January 31, 1913 – June 26, 1997) was a professional American football player and assistant coach in the National Football League (NFL). He played as a split end and spent his entire eleven-year professional career with the Green Bay Packers. Under head coach Curly Lambeau, Hutson led the Packers to four NFL Championship Games, winning three: 1936, 1939, and 1944.

In his senior season at the University of Alabama in 1934, Hutson was recognized as a consensus All-American and won a national championship with the Alabama Crimson Tide football team. After his career at Alabama, he joined the Packers in 1935 and played eleven seasons before he retired in 1945. He led the league in receiving yards in seven separate seasons and in receiving touchdowns in nine. A talented safety on defense, he also led the NFL in interceptions in 1940. Hutson was an eight-time All-Pro selection, a four-time Pro Bowler, and was twice awarded the Joe F. Carr Trophy as the NFL Most Valuable Player.

Hutson is considered to have been the first modern receiver,[1] and is credited with creating many of the modern pass routes used in the NFL today. He was the dominant receiver of his day, during which he was widely considered one of the greatest receivers in NFL history.[2] He held almost all major receiving records at the time of his retirement, including career receptions, yards, and touchdowns.[3] He was inducted as a charter member of both the College Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Hutson's number 14 was the first jersey retired by the Packers, and he is a member of the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame. In 1994, Hutson was selected for the National Football League 75th Anniversary All-Time Team.

Early years and college

Hutson was born on January 31, 1913, in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, one of three sons of Roy B. Hutson and Mabel Clark Hutson. While a Boy Scout, he played with snakes. He said that's where he got his quickness and agility.[1] As a teenager Hutson played baseball for Pine Bluff's town team. As a senior at Pine Bluff High School he was an all-state basketball player, which he said was his favorite sport. "I'm like most [athletes]," he said. "I'd rather see football, but I'd rather play basketball."[4] Hutson played one year of football at Pine Bluff.[5]

Hutson played at end for coach Frank Thomas's Alabama Crimson Tide football team from 1932 to 1934.[6] Bear Bryant, future long-time coach of the Tide, was the self-described "other end" on the Tide in 1933 and 1934.[7] Bryant once remarked, "...he was something to see even then. We'd hitchhike to Pine Bluff just to watch him play. I saw him catch five touchdown passes in one game in high school."[8]

Sportswriter Morgan Blake ranked the undefeated 1934 Tide as the best team he ever saw.[9] Hutson's College Football Hall of Fame profile reads: "Fluid in motion, wondrously elusive with the fake, inventive in his patterns and magnificently at ease when catching the ball ... Hutson and fellow Hall of Famer Millard "Dixie" Howell became football's most celebrated passing combination."[10] Hutson had six catches for 165 yards,[6] including two touchdowns of 54 and 59 yards in the 1935 Rose Bowl against Stanford.[11] He also scored the winning touchdown over Robert Neyland's Tennessee Volunteers on an end-around.[12]

Hutson was recognized as a first-team All-American for six different organizations and received a second-team selection by one other. In an attempt to name retroactive Heisman Trophy winners before its first year of 1936, Hutson was awarded it for 1934 by the National Football Foundation.[13][14] Georgia Tech coach Bill Alexander once said, "All Don Hutson can do is beat you with clever hands and the most baffling change of pace I've ever seen."[15]

NFL career

When he graduated from Alabama, Hutson did not plan on playing professionally, since the NFL was not highly regarded in the South compared to college football.[16] But Green Bay Packers head coach Curly Lambeau saw Hutson as the perfect receiver for his passing attack, which at the time was headed by quarterback Arnie Herber and end John "Blood" McNally. Before the draft existed, college players could sign with any team they wanted, and while Hutson did sign a contract with Green Bay, he had also signed a contract with the NFL's Brooklyn Dodgers. Both contracts came to the NFL office at the same time, and NFL president Joseph Carr declared that Hutson would go to Green Bay, as the Green Bay contract had an earlier date of signing.[16] Hutson later stated he chose the Packers because they offered the most money—$300 a game. "That was far and above what they had ever paid a player," said Hutson. "Each week they'd give me a check for $150 from one bank and $150 from another so nobody would know how much I was getting paid."[17]

Split end

Hutson's first catch as a professional was on an 83-yard touchdown pass from Herber on the first play from scrimmage against the Chicago Bears, in the second game of the 1935 season.[18] It was the only score of the game as the Packers won 7–0.[19] He caught six touchdowns total in his rookie season, which led the league. It was the first in a string of four straight seasons and nine seasons total that Hutson led the league in touchdown receptions.[20] The next season the Packers won their fourth league title, with a 21–6 win over the Boston Redskins in the 1936 NFL Championship Game. Hutson scored the first touchdown of the game, on a 48-yard pass from Herber in the first quarter.[21] Hutson completed the season with 34 receptions for 536 yards and eight touchdowns, which were all league records,[20] and helped Herber set the NFL season passing yards record.[22] Hutson's yardage record was broken the next season by Chicago Cardinals receiver Gaynell Tinsley, who challenged Hutson over the next few years for the title of best receiver in the NFL.[2]

In 1938, Hutson had nine touchdown receptions, again setting the league record, as he led the Packers to another NFL Championship Game, this time against the New York Giants.[23] However, a knee injury he suffered four weeks earlier kept him out of the game's starting lineup.[24] He entered as a substitute three separate times late in the game but was unable to be a factor, catching no passes as Green Bay was defeated 23–17.[25]

Hutson making a catch c. 1940

Hutson reclaimed the season receiving yards record from Tinsley in 1939 by catching 34 passes for 846 yards—an average of 24.9 yards per reception, the highest of his career. He again led the Packers to the championship game, for a rematch against the Giants. This time Green Bay was victorious, with a 27–0 shutout win.[26] Hutson had two receptions in the game for 21 yards and a rushing attempt that went for three yards.[27] In 1940, Hutson scored seven touchdowns and kicked 15 extra points to lead the league in scoring by edging out Rams fullback Johnny Drake by a single point.[28]

In 1941, Hutson became the first receiver to catch 50 passes in a season,[16] doing so while again leading the league in receptions, receiving yards, and touchdowns. He also scored two rushing touchdowns, for a total of twelve. After the season he was awarded the Joe F. Carr Trophy as the league's most valuable player. He received six of the nine first place votes, finishing ahead of his quarterback Cecil Isbell, who received two first place votes.[29]

Hutson repeated as league MVP in 1942 as he shattered most of his own records; he caught 74 passes for 1,211 yards and 17 touchdowns and averaged over 110 receiving yards per game. He again received six of nine first place votes for the Joe F. Carr Trophy. "The selection did not rest alone on his great pass catching ability," reasoned the selection committee. "Also considered were his nuisance value as a disrupter of enemy defenses and his ability to transform the Packers into a confident, powerful aggregation in clutch situations."[30] His production helped Isbell become the first NFL quarterback to throw for over 2,000 yards in a season.[31]

In February 1943, Hutson announced his retirement from football due to a lingering chest injury.[32] He changed his mind and returned for the 1943 season,[33] however, and caught 47 passes for 776 yards and eleven touchdowns, leading the league in all three. He also threw his first and only completed pass of his career: a 38-yard touchdown pass to Harry Jacunski against the Bears.[34] Additionally he successfully kicked 36 extra points on 36 tries, and had an 83-yard interception return touchdown. After the season Hutson again announced his intention to retire as a player, this time to be an assistant coach for the Packers.[35] He once again returned as a player in 1944 and again led the league with 58 receptions, 866 yards, and nine touchdowns, while also serving as assistant coach. He led the Packers to the 1944 NFL Championship Game against the Giants and caught two passes for 47 yards, as the Packers won their third and final championship with Hutson, 14–7.[36]

Diagram of the chair route, a Hutson innovation

For the third time in as many years Hutson announced his retirement, and for the third time he returned as a player in 1945. A sportswriter for The Pittsburgh Press jokingly declared Hutson "holder of the world's record for coming out of retirement."[37] In a week three, 57–21 blowout win against the Detroit Lions, Hutson set an NFL record with four touchdown receptions in a game, all of them coming in the second quarter.[38] He also kicked five extra points in the quarter, for a total of 29 points, which as of 2015 remains a record for points by a player in a single quarter.[1]

In all, Hutson caught 488 passes for 7,991 yards and 99 touchdowns. He rushed for three touchdowns, scored two touchdowns on blocked punts, and had an interception return touchdown for a career total of 105. He scored at least six receiving touchdowns in each of his eleven seasons.[4] Hutson led the NFL in receptions eight times, including five consecutive times: 1941 to 1945. He led the NFL in receiving yards seven times, including four straight times: 1941 to 1944. He led the NFL in scoring five times: 1941 to 1945. As of 2016, Hutson still holds the highest career average touchdowns per game for a receiver, at 0.85.[3] Hutson's single season record of 17 touchdown receptions in 1942 stood for 42 years until broken by receiver Mark Clayton in 1984, a year in which Miami's quarterback Dan Marino had more completions (362) than the entire 1942 Packers team's pass attempts (330).[3] His four receiving touchdowns in a game has been surpassed three times and tied several times,[39] but his four in a single quarter has yet to be matched. His record 99 touchdown receptions stood for 44 years, well into the modern era.[18] In his eleven-year professional career, Hutson never missed a game due to injury.[40] He invented many pass routes still in use today, including the chair route.[41]

Defense and special teams

For many of his eleven seasons, Hutson was also the Packers' kicker. He added 172 extra points on 183 attempts and seven field goals on 15 attempts for another league record 823 points. He led the league in extra points made and attempted in 1941, 1942 and 1945 and in field goals made in 1943. As did almost all players in his day, Hutson played both offense and defense. On defense, he played safety and intercepted 30 passes over the final six years of his career.[lower-alpha 1] His highest season total was in 1943, when he intercepted eight passes in ten games. In 1940, he led the NFL with six interceptions.[3]

After his retirement as a player, Hutson remained on the Packers staff as an assistant until 1948.[40]

Personal and later life

From an early age Hutson was interested in business. "At the university [of Alabama], I was the only athlete in the business school," he said. "The only reason I wanted to play pro sports was to get a stake."[4] While both were students at Alabama, he partnered with Bear Bryant to operate a laundromat in Tuscaloosa called Captain Kidd Cleaners. However, neither were educated in laundering, and they sold the business after two years.[42] While in Green Bay, Hutson opened the Packer Playdium bowling alley,[43] which proved so successful that he twice considered retirement from football to fully dedicate his time to its operation.[33] He then started the Hutson Motor Car Co. dealership and in 1951 purchased Chevrolet and Cadillac agencies in Racine, Wisconsin.[44] "I never aimed for automobiles," said Hutson. "That just happened to be the thing I got into. I just wanted to run a business, any business.[4]

After he retired from the dealership business, Hutson settled in Rancho Mirage, California, where he lived until his death on June 26, 1997, at the age of 84.[45]

Honors and recognition

Hutson at his induction to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963

Hutson has been honored in a variety of ways. He was elected to the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame as a charter member in 1951,[46] and the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in 1968, also as an initial member.[47] His number 14 was the first number retired by the Packers, in a public ceremony at a game at City Stadium on December 2, 1951.[18] Hutson Street in the Packerland Industrial Park in Green Bay is named for him, and in 1994 the Packers named their new state-of-the-art indoor practice facility across the street from Lambeau Field the "Don Hutson Center."[48]

Hutson's number 14 displayed at Lambeau Field

Hutson was inducted as a charter member of both the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951,[49] and Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963. His college career made him a unanimous choice for the Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1920–1969 era.[50] Hutson is a member of the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame, inducted in 1972 along with his quarterbacks, Arnie Herber and Cecil Isbell. There is a park named after him in his hometown of Pine Bluff, Arkansas.[51] On the occasion of his 75th birthday he performed the ceremonial coin toss of Super Bowl XXII to end the pregame ceremonies.[52] Hutson was named to the NFL's 1930s All-Decade Team and 50th Anniversary Team in 1970, and in 1994 he was named to the NFL 75th Anniversary All-Time Team.[18] In 1999, he was ranked sixth on The Sporting News list of the 100 Greatest Football Players, the highest-ranking Packer and the highest-ranking pre–World War II player.[53] In 2012, the NFL Network named Hutson the greatest Green Bay Packer of all time.[54]

In 2005, the Flagstad family of Green Bay donated to the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame an authentic Packers No. 14 jersey worn by Hutson. The jersey was found in a trunk of old uniforms in 1946 at the Rockwood Lodge, the Packers' summer training camp from 1946 to 1949, owned by Melvin and Helen Flagstad. The jersey, a rare NFL artifact valued at over $17,000, was donated by son Daniel Flagstad in memory of his parents.[55]

Hutson's most productive seasons were from 1942 to 1945, a time in which the NFL was severely depleted with many of its most talented players and prospective college athletes serving in the military during World War II.[56] Hutson was classified I-A for the military draft, but had three daughters, so was able to avoid conscription.[4] On the notion that Hutson exploited watered-down defenses, former Packers running back Paul Hornung responded as such: "I'm a believer. Am I a believer! You know what Hutson would do in this league today? The same things he did when he played."[45]

NFL records

As of the end of the 2015 NFL season, Hutson still holds the following records: most seasons leading league in pass receptions (8), most consecutive seasons leading league in pass receptions (5), most seasons leading league in pass receiving yards gained (7), most consecutive seasons leading league in pass receiving yards gained (4), most seasons leading league in pass receiving touchdowns (9), most seasons leading the league in total touchdowns (8), Most consecutive seasons leading league in pass receiving touchdowns (5), most seasons leading league in scoring (5, now tied), and most consecutive seasons leading league in scoring (5). Sportswriter Zipp Newman referred to Hutson as "the Ty Cobb of the gridiron."[15]

Records held as of retirement:[4][20]

  • Most seasons led league, scoring: 5*
  • Most consecutive seasons led league, scoring: 5*
  • Most touchdowns scored in a quarter: 4*
  • Most touchdown receptions in a quarter: 4*
  • Most points scored in a quarter: 29*[38][1]
  • Most points scored in a calendar month: 76* (October 1945)
  • Most seasons led league, touchdowns: 8*
  • Most consecutive seasons led league, touchdowns: 4*
  • Most seasons led league, receiving touchdowns: 9*
  • Most consecutive seasons led league, receiving touchdowns: 5*
  • Most seasons led league, receptions: 8*
  • Most consecutive seasons led league, receptions: 5*
  • Most seasons led league, receiving yards: 7*
  • Most consecutive seasons led league, receiving yards: 4*
  • Most receptions, career: 488
  • Most receptions, season: 74
  • Most receptions, game: 14
  • Most receiving yards, career: 7,991
  • Most receiving yards, season: 1,211
  • Most receiving yards, game: 209
  • Most receiving touchdowns, career: 99
  • Most touchdowns, season: 17
  • Most touchdowns, game: 4

Note: * = remains an NFL record as of 2015 season[57]

NFL career statistics

Legend
Led the league
NFL champion
Joe F. Carr MVP Trophy
Bold Career high
Receiving Defense Scoring
Year Team GP Rec Yds Avg TD Lng Rec/G Yds/G Int Yds TD XPM XPA Pts
1935 GB 9 18 420 23.3 6 83 2.0 46.7 43
1936 GB 12 34 536 15.8 8 58 2.8 44.7 54
1937 GB 11 41 552 13.5 7 78 3.7 50.2 42
1938 GB 10 32 548 17.1 9 54 3.2 54.8 3 3 57
1939 GB 11 34 846 24.9 6 92 3.1 76.9 2 2 38
1940 GB 11 45 664 14.8 7 36 4.1 60.4 6 24 0 15 16 57
1941 GB 11 58 738 12.7 10 45 5.3 67.1 1 32 0 20 24 95
1942 GB 11 74 1,211 16.4 17 73 6.7 110.1 7 71 0 33 34 138
1943 GB 10 47 776 16.5 11 79 4.7 77.6 8 197 1 36 36 117
1944 GB 10 58 866 14.9 9 55 5.8 86.6 4 50 0 31 33 85
1945 GB 10 47 834 17.7 9 75 4.7 83.4 4 15 0 31 35 97
Career 116 488 7,991 16.4 99 92 4.2 68.9 30 389 1 172 183 823

Source:[58]

Notes

  1. ↑ Interceptions were not counted in statistics until the 1940 season.

References

General references

Footnotes

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  2. 1 2 Jimmy Conzelman (September 6, 1940). "Tinsley as Good as Hutson?". St Louis Post-Dispatch. p. 38. Retrieved May 23, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Member – Pro Football Hall of Fame–Don Hutson". Pro Football Hall of Fame. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Oates, Bob (April 30, 1989). "Don Hutson: After Helping Invent the Forward Pass, the Former Packer Star Grabbed the Brass Ring of Life as Well". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
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  6. 1 2 Cross, Duane (August 29, 2014). "Alabama's greatest football players". NCAA.com.
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  8. ↑ "The Alabama Antelope: One of Football's Greatest Pioneers". Paul W. Bryant Museum. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
  9. ↑ "Alabama Rates Best Of 'Em All". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. December 3, 1934. p. 10. Retrieved July 5, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
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  12. ↑ "Crimson Tide rolls over Tennessee, 13–6". The Tuscaloosa News. Google News Archives. October 21, 1934. p. 9. Retrieved April 3, 2012.
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  14. ↑ Stephenson, Creg (July 1, 2016). "Don Hutson, the Babe Ruth of wide receivers and Alabama's greatest football player". The Birmingham News. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
  15. 1 2 Zipp Newman (September 11, 1955). "Alabama's grid stars of '20's put gravy in bowls". Birmingham News. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
  16. 1 2 3 Eisenberg 2009, p. 22
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  44. ↑ "Don Hutson Takes Over and Agency in Racine". The Milwaukee Journal. September 25, 1951. Retrieved June 16, 2016.
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