Inductees

After enlisting at age 17 into the Army Air Corps during World War II, Hugh entered pilot training but was discharged in 1945 after Victory in Europe. Hugh attended and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley where he was a three-sport letterman in gymnastics, track, and wrestling. He wrestled four years there for Head Coach Henry Stone, and he was an undefeated Pacific Coast Intercollegiate Wrestling Champion in 1946 at 175 pounds and in 1947 and at 191 pounds.

After winning a championship at the AAU Pacific Association Tournament in 1948, he won a championship at the Far Western District 15 Olympic Trials which qualified him for the U.S. Final Trials. He served as assistant wrestling coach at UC Berkeley under Stone for three years. In 1952, at age 24, he went to San Jose State University as Head Wrestling Coach. For almost 20 years, from 1952 to 1969, and again in 1971. He guided the Spartans to a continually prominent position in West Coast wrestling while compiling a team dual match record of 130-69-6.

His SJSU teams won five WCAA titles, earned a 2nd, and took 3rd three times while usually placing 6th or better out of the 30 or more schools in the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate Wrestling Association. Mumby was known as one of the finest mat technicians in collegiate history, and he coached many PCI Champions during his tenure, including two-time Olympian and Hall of Fame inductee Russ Camilleri. Hugh started the San Jose Invitational Wrestling Tournament in 1956, later renamed the “Mumby” by T.J. Kerr, one of his wrestlers who later became Head Wrestling Coach at San Jose State and later at CSU-Bakersfield.

Hugh was an official at the Far Western AAF Championships in 1949 and at the National AAU Championships in 1954, serving as the college representative to the Bay Area College Wrestling Officials Association from 1960-65. He was Wrestling Commissioner for the Pacific Association AAU from 1952-61, and he was Vice President and President of the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate Wrestling Association from 1956-58. Mumby is considered by his colleagues to be one of the finest gentlemen to ever coach intercollegiate wrestling in California and an exemplary role model for wrestlers, coaches and officials. In 1980 he received the Martin Olavarri Memorial Award for his contributions to wrestling.