Tommy Hughitt was a Canadian-American National Football League (NFL) utility player, coach, referee and politician. He was also an All-American quarterback for the University of Michigan in 1913.
Tommy Hughitt
Hughitt at Maine, 1917
In sports, a utility player is one who can play several positions competently. Sports in which the term is often used include association football, basketball, American football, baseball, rugby union, rugby league, softball, ice hockey, and water polo.
In 2017, Andrew Romine became the fifth player to play all nine positions in a Major League Baseball game.
1907 photograph of Bradbury Robinson, who threw the first legal forward pass and was the sport's first triple threat