Hubert later became the head football and basketball coach at the Mississippi State Teachers College—now known as University of Southern Mississippi—and Virginia Military Institute.

[1] Pooley earned a scholarship to play football at Princeton University, but arrived too late for the entrance exams.

He tried a few other schools including Georgia Tech, for which he was one day late, before ultimately enrolling at the University of Alabama as a 20-year-old freshman.

[n 1] Pooley initially played tackle in college, but was eventually put in the backfield where he excelled at fullback and quarterback.

[3] Zipp Newman wrote "No player deserves more credit for getting Alabama started up the ladder than Hubert—a football coach on the field.

"[4] Herman Stegeman remarked that with Hubert in the game Alabama had the advantage another team would have by a coach on the field of play.

Johnny Mack Brown returned a punt for the deciding touchdown, and Hubert cleared two Tech players out of the way.

[9] The climax of his college career was the final game, defeating Wildcat Wilson-led Washington, 20–19, in the 1926 Rose Bowl.