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Talk of Arizona

Fa;ll 2015

What's in a name

'Who is Gym?'

A book tells the stories of how Arizona high school sports venues were named

By Tom Gibbons

Scott Hanson, a longtime baseball umpire and football referee and a former sportscaster with KPHO TV, had a question. He was officiating a football game at Cactus High School’s M.L. Huber Field, and Hanson wondered: Who was this Huber guy?

No one at the school seemed to know. Hanson researched the question and found out that Huber had been the school’s first principal.

Before football games, Hanson gives his officiating crew a little quiz, usually a few facts