What sport did Hubble coach at New Albany High School?

At New Albany High School, Edwin Hubble coached basketball.

Hubble taught at the Indiana school for about a year after returning from Oxford and before beginning graduate astronomy studies. His teaching assignments included physics, mathematics, and Spanish, while his coaching role drew on a skill he had developed as a gifted athlete.

Basketball was a significant part of Hubble’s own school and college life. At the University of Chicago, he played on the basketball team and helped lead it to the school’s first Big Ten Conference title in 1907. He had also played several positions, including center and shooting guard.

Hubble was broadly athletic: he played football and baseball and competed in track and field. Those activities explain why the wrong choices can sound plausible. However, the documented coaching position at New Albany High School was specifically basketball. His later career in astronomy made this early teaching-and-coaching chapter a memorable contrast.