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Weldon Gaston "Hum" Humble (April 24, 1921 – April 14, 1998) was an
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who played five seasons in the
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(AAFC) and
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(NFL) for the
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and
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in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Humble grew up in
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and was a multi-sport athlete at
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in
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. He enrolled at
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in
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in 1940 and played three seasons on the school's football team. Humble then spent three years in the
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during
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, serving in the
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and earning a
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before returning to complete his college studies in 1946. Sportswriters named him a first-team All-American after the
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finished with an 8–2
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and beat
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8–0 in the 1947
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. The AAFC's
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signed Humble in 1947, but the Browns acquired him in a trade before the season. Humble became an anchor on Cleveland's offensive line, helping the team win three straight AAFC titles in the late 1940s. When the AAFC dissolved in 1949, Cleveland moved to the NFL and won another championship in 1950. Humble, who remained in the Marine Reserves, was called into service in the
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after the season. He was expected to return to Cleveland the following year, but head coach
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traded him to the Texans before the 1952 season began. He retired after one year in Dallas. After his playing career, Humble worked as a bank executive and at an office supply company. He was also the chairman of the selection committee for the
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. Humble was inducted into the
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in 1961, and was named to the
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and the South Texas Football Hall of Fame in 1969. He is also a member of the Rice University Athletics Hall of Fame. He died in 1998 in Houston following a long illness.


Early life and college career

Humble was born in
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, a suburb of
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, in 1921. His athletic career began at San Antonio's
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. Humble played as an
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for two seasons and a fullback for a third season on the football team. He also played on the basketball, track and swimming teams before graduating and enrolling at
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in
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in 1940. Humble began play on Rice's freshman team as an end in 1940. He advanced to the varsity team the next year. While he started as an end, coach
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switched him to guard before the first game of the season. He thrived in the new position, and was named a
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all-star by the ''
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'' after the
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finished 1941 with a 6–3–1 win–loss–tie record. The following year, Humble earned All-
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honors and won the George Martin Award, given to Rice's most valuable player, as Rice put up a 7–2–1 record. Humble left Rice in 1943 for the
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, then called Southwestern Louisiana Institute, to prepare for service in
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in a V-12
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training program. As he trained, he played alongside enlistees from
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, the
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and
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on a military team that won six straight games and was selected to play in the first
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in Houston. Captained by Humble, Southwestern beat a service team from
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in San Antonio. Halfback
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loved playing behind Humble, recalling years later that "I'd never seen such blocking." After the season, Humble enlisted in the
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and was sent to fight in the
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. He rose to the rank of
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and won a
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. Upon his discharge in 1946, Humble returned to Rice. He lettered in football and track and field and was voted a consensus first-team All-American guard while captain of Rice's Southwest Conference co-champion team. He was also named lineman of the week by the ''
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'' in November for his strong tackling in a game against the
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. After finishing with an 8–2 record, Rice beat
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in the
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game in early 1947. Rice was ranked the 10th-best college team in the nation in the
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.


Professional football career

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, the coach of the
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in the
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(AAFC), met Humble while vacationing in Florida in 1946. Brown came to watch the Orange Bowl on
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, and was staying in the same hotel as the Rice team. He saw Humble and his wife Lorraine, whom Humble had met while in training at Southwestern, on a dance floor at the hotel. "He appeared to be the sort of fellow we like to have on our team," Brown said later in 1947. "Then I watched him in that Tennessee game and after that made up my mind he'd be with my club if I ever had the chance to make a deal for him." The AAFC's
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selected Humble in the league's draft, but Brown got his chance in August. He engineered a trade that sent four players including
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Steve Nemeth and guard George Cheroke to the Colts, plus two players to be named later. Before joining the Browns, Humble played in the
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, a now-defunct annual matchup between the
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(NFL) champion and a selection of the best college players from around the country. The college all-stars won the game, defeating the
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16–0. In Cleveland, Humble was part of an offensive line that included
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,
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and
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. Their job was to protect quarterback
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from opposing defenders and open up running room for fullback
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. They chanted "nobody touches Graham" when they broke the
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. Helped by strong line play, Graham, Motley and Cleveland ends
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and
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led a potent offense that dominated the AAFC for three years. The Browns won the AAFC championship in 1947, 1948 and 1949 before the league disbanded and Cleveland was absorbed by the more established NFL. Humble was a consensus second-team
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selection in 1948, when Cleveland won all of its games. Cleveland's success continued in the NFL in 1950, when Humble was used on occasion as a
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on defense. The Browns finished the season with a 10–2 record and beat the
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in the
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. Humble was selected to play in the first-ever
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, the NFL's all-star game. Humble continued as a member of the Marine Reserves as his professional career continued, and in 1951 he was in danger of being called up for service in the
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. He re-enlisted in the summer and played for a military team at
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later in the year. After the season, he was named the best service player in the country by the Washington Touchdown Club. Humble was expected to return to the Browns after his discharge from the military in 1952. In a surprise move, however, Brown traded him before the season to the
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for fullback
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. The trade was unexpected because Cleveland's other guards, including Gaudio and
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, were getting older and nearing retirement. "I'm sure we'll be all right at the guard position," Brown said at the time. "But we do have a definite fullback problem." Humble played one season for the Texans before retiring. Dallas had a 1–11 record in 1952.


Later life and death

After his football career, Humble worked for 20 years at First City National Bank in Houston. He later became vice-president of an office supply firm called Stationers, Inc. He maintained an affiliation with his Texas alma mater, serving as president and later director of the R Association, an alumni group for former Rice student-athletes. In the late 1960s, he became the president of the Greater Houston Bowl Association, which organized the
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. By the mid-1970s, he was chairman of the Bowl's selection committee. Humble won numerous honors after his career. He became the first Rice player inducted into the
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in 1961. He was included on a 50th anniversary All-Southwest Conference team in 1968, and in 1970 was one of the first people inducted into the Rice University Athletics Hall of Fame. Humble was inducted into the
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and the South Texas Football Hall of Fame in 1969. Later in life, Humble worked for the Harris County Appraisal Review Board and was a salesman for an office furniture supply company. He died in 1998 in Houston after a long illness. Humble and his wife Lorraine had three children.


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