Howard Wilson "Soup" Cable (April 4, 1913 – February 19, 1995) was an American professional

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basketball-reference.com. Retrieved on August 18, 2014. He bypassed college basketball after graduating from high school and jumped right to the professional ranks, first with the

Akron Firestone Non-Skids The Akron Firestone Non-Skids were an American professional basketball team based in Akron, Ohio. The team was one of the thirteen founding members of the National Basketball League (NBL), which formed in 1937. The team was named for the Firesto ...

(1937–1941) and then to the Toledo Jim White Chevrolets (1941–42).Howard "Soup" Cable
Summit County Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved on August 18, 2014. Cable led the Non-Skids to consecutive National Basketball League championships in 1938–39 and 1939–40. In both of those seasons he was named to the All-NBL First Team. He was married to Catherine Tobin and had three children. Catherine's brother was Paul Tobin, a teammate of Cable's with Akron.

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