George Cairns "Scatter" Hubbard (23 November 1867 – 18 December 1931) was an English rugby union player who represented the England national rugby union team, England national team in two matches in 1892. He also played first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club in 1895.
[Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), p. 269.]
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Hubbard was born in India in 1867, the fourth son of the Reverend Henry Dickinson Hubbard.
[Hughes WO (ed.) (1886), ''The Register of Tonbridge School, from 1820 to 1886, also lists of exhibitioners, &c., previous to 1820, and of head masters and second masters'', p.179. Reading: I.I. Beecroft.]
Available online
Retrieved 2017-11-15).
CricInfo. Retrieved 2017-11-15. He played club rugby for Blackheath F.C. as a Centre (rugby union), centre or on the Wing (rugby union), wing. He played twice for England in the 1892 Home Nations Championship, playing against Wales national rugby union team, Wales and Ireland national rugby union team, Ireland, scoring one try on his debut.
[Scatter Hubbard]
ESPNscrum. Retrieved 2017-11-15.
Supplementary obituaries in 1930–31, ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', 1933. Retrieved 2017-11-15.
Hubbard was educated at Tonbridge School between 1876 and 1886. He played in the rugby XV from 1882 to 1885 and captained the side in his final year. He also played in the cricket XI from 1883 to 1885.
In 1895 he appeared in three first-class cricket matches for Kent at the end of May and beginning of June. He scored 61 runs and took one wicket.
[George Hubbard]
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-11-15. He played club cricket for Blackheath Cricket Club and was considered a "mainstay" of both the cricket and rugby clubs at Blackheath.
Hubbard worked at the London Stock Exchange.
He died at Eltham in London in December 1931 aged 64.
His son, John Cairns Hubbard, made one rugby union appearance for England in the 1930 Five Nations Championship.
[John Hubbard]
ESPNscrum. Retrieved 2017-11-15.
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1867 births
1931 deaths
People educated at Tonbridge School
English rugby union players
England international rugby union players
English cricketers
Kent cricketers
Blackheath F.C. players
Barbarian F.C. players
Rugby union centres
British people in colonial India