DeHart Hubbard

William DeHart Hubbard (November 25, 1903 – June 23, 1976) was a track and field athlete and the first African American to win an Olympic gold medal in an individual event. He won the running long jump at the 1924 Paris Summer games. He also competed in the 1924 Olympics as a triple jumper. The next year, he set a world record in the long jump, with a leap of 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.

High school and university Hubbard excelled both athletically and academically at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati. Impressed, he checked with University of Michigan Director of Athletics Fielding H. Yost, who had refused to allow African Americans to play football; Yost gave his enthusiastic approval to recruiting Hubbard. His 1925 jump of stood as a Big Ten Championships record until Jesse Owens broke it in 1935 with what is now the current record of . In 1925, Hubbard broke the long jump world record with a leap of at the NCAA championships. He also competed in the hurdles at the 1926 AAU championships. ) The United States Olympic team sailed from Hoboken, New Jersey, for France aboard the liner SS America.

1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam Hubbard qualified in the broad jump, but was again injured and placed 11th. In its lone season as a major league team, the Tigers finished second with a record of 34 wins, 20 losses and a tie, ten games back of the Kansas City Monarchs.

After college graduation, he work as the supervisor of the Department of Colored Work for the Cincinnati Public Recreation Commission from 1927 to 1941. and the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor, the latter as part of the second class inducted.

He was a member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity. 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.