Don Hutson...fastest Packer ever!

[No Mo Moss]

I was just watching "The History of the Green Bay Packers" DVD, great disc..get it if you don't have it.

Curly Lambeau went down to scout the rose bowl one year. The practices were closed , but he climbed a fench to watch Alabama. This was before scouting was anything really. He may have been the first coach to travel any real distance to scout a player. That's where he first saw Don Hutson. After the Rose Bowl Lambeau timed Hudson in the 100 yard dash as that was the distance at the time.

Lambeau timed Hutson running the 100 yard dash in 9.7 seconds. Incredible! His 40 yard time would have bee 4.0 or lower. Simply incredible. All Hutson did was score the most points for the packers until Longwell finally beat his records last year.

Crazy!

[Tarlam!]

Re: Don Hutson...fastest Packer ever!

...All Hutson did was score the most points for the packers until Longwell finally beat his records last year.

I am a sentimental old fool, and somehow I pine that a Viking holds the Packers record for most points scored...

I wish The Don still held those records...

[mraynrand]

"Lambeau timed Hutson running the 100 yard dash in 9.7 seconds"
World Record!
Of course back then they used to 'old school' method: "One thousand one, one thousand two, one thousand three......"

[HarveyWallbangers]

Re: Don Hutson...fastest Packer ever!

I was just watching "The History of the Green Bay Packers" DVD, great disc..get it if you don't have it.

Curly Lambeau went down to scout the rose bowl one year. The practices were closed , but he climbed a fench to watch Alabama. This was before scouting was anything really. He may have been the first coach to travel any real distance to scout a player. That's where he first saw Don Hutson. After the Rose Bowl Lambeau timed Hudson in the 100 yard dash as that was the distance at the time.

Lambeau timed Hutson running the 100 yard dash in 9.7 seconds. Incredible! His 40 yard time would have bee 4.0 or lower. Simply incredible. All Hutson did was score the most points for the packers until Longwell finally beat his records last year.

Crazy!

You can't directly convert a 100 to a 40, as a higher percentage of the time would be taken to get off the starting blocks. A guy could run a 100 yard dash in 9.7, but it might take him 4.4 seconds to get to 40 and 5.3 seconds to run the rest.

[swede]

Even if I don't trust the actual recorded time, I do believe that Hutson must have been unusually fast. I know that people old enough to remember still say he was the greatest Packer ever.

[Tarlam!]

World Record!"

I think I know why you question this time: metres vs. yards. 9.7 for metres would certainly have been a world record, even today! (9.77 set in 2005),

but, 100 meters = 109, 4 yards. That makes the time realistic for when Don did it. It is still fast.

[mraynrand]

Actually Tarlam, I did take the conversion into account. my point was that 9.7 is pretty pedestrian for a 100 yard dash - at least for a sprinter. That's a very good time for a high school or division II school from the 1960s, when I think the 100 yard dash was phased out in favor of the 100 meter dash.

[Guiness]

Two topics going on here! Looking at the original post, DH's speed must've surly attracted Curly's interest. But let's give Curly credit for recognizing the importance of seeing a game of this calibre, and doing what he had to to go see it.

It wouldn't have been easy then. I'm sure he had to take a train, and it was probably a week or so round trip to go see the game.

[Guiness]

There was a good post on 40 times vs 100 times on JSO. Talked about the shortest 'official' distance of 60m, Ben Johnson, etc.

It pointed out that these world class sprinters, who train for nothing else but straight line speed, couldn't even put up those gaudy 4.2 and 4.3 #'s

[MadtownPacker]

Fastest Packer?? Hell that might be the fastest white guy ever!!!

[Guiness]

Nah, that award goes to Gilligan. Ever see him move when the Skipper was chasing him? Wow.

Tough too. Once I saw him get hit by a...

[Scott Campbell]

Fastest Packer?? Hell that might be the fastest white guy ever!!!

I thought you just liked fast white girls.

[Fritz]

Gilligan might've gotten away from the Skipper, but he always ended up having to go back to their little straw hut every night...

[Scott Campbell]

Ginger, or Mary Ann?

[Fritz]

Ginger. Always Ginger.