The Packers’ practice field alongside South Oneida Street, west of the Don Hutson Center, couldn’t be more aptly named.
A young player hoping to make the Packers roster today couldn’t pick a better all-time great to aspire to be like than Clarke Hinkle. Viewed as a gentleman away from the field, Hinkle was all football, all the time on the job.
“Oh, man! He was about the greatest football player I ever saw,” the late Bill Lee, a former teammate, Packers captain and former college teammate of Don Hutson, once said of Hinkle. “He had more determination, more grit, more guts than any player I ever saw.