Imagine being a multi-talented athlete. An All-American football player and turning down pro sports for teaching. It wouldn’t happen today except for medical reasons. It was a different era.

Hubert R. “Hub” Randour, an All-America halfback at the University of Pittsburgh and the first head football coach in the fledgling Penn Hills School District, where he taught for 42 years, died Friday. Mr. Randour, of Penn Hills, was 91.

Mr. Randour played at Pitt for legendary Coach Jock Sutherland from 1933 to 1935 on a team that lost only three games during that three-year span.

After graduating from Pitt in 1936, Mr. Randour declined offers from the Steelers, Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Eagles to accept the head coaching position with the new Penn Hills High School. The school’s first football and basketball teams included only ninth- and 10th-graders. Students then were housed at the former Stevens Elementary School until the new high school was built on Saltsburg Road.

He was also the science teacher at Penn Hills. Just got advice against playing professional football at that time.

“He even signed a contract with the Steelers, but never showed up for training camp,” his son added. “His brother, George, who was an all-star football player at the University of Wisconsin, warned him that the pros were not for him.”

Mr. Randour left his teaching and coaching position to enlist in the Navy during World War II.

“Dad was sent to Bainbridge (Md.) Naval Base as a physical fitness instructor,” said his son. “He had the opportunity to work with former boxing champion Gene Tunney, which he appreciated.

“Dad often said he was fortunate to have had Jock Sutherland as his football coach at Pitt and Gene Tunney as the head instructor at the Naval Base.”

Mr. Randour was assigned to Grove City College, Mercer County, as the physical fitness director at the Naval Radio School located on the campus.

Eventually, he attended gunnery school at the Norfolk Naval Base in Virginia, and became a gunnery officer in the Pacific Theater.

All Condolences to the family.