Howard Wilson "Soup" Cable (April 4, 1913 – February 19, 1995) was an American professional basketball player. He bypassed college basketball after graduating from high school and jumped right to the professional ranks, first with the Akron Firestone Non-Skids (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.
Career statistics
†Denotes seasons in which Cable's team won an NBL championship
NBL Source
Regular season
| style="text-align:left;"| 1937–38 | style="text-align:left;"| Akron Firestone Non-Skids | 15 || 42 || 45 || || || 129 || 8.6 |- | style="text-align:left;background:#ffe6fa;"| 1938–39† | style="text-align:left;"| Akron Firestone Non-Skids | 24 || 99 || 64 || || || 262 || 10.9 |- | style="text-align:left;background:#ffe6fa;"| 1939–40† | style="text-align:left;"| Akron Firestone Non-Skids | 26 || 79 || 61 || || || 219 || 8.4 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 1940–41 | style="text-align:left;"| Akron Firestone Non-Skids | 15 || 30 || 34 || 47 || .723 || 94 || 6.3 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 1941–42 | style="text-align:left;"| Toledo | 5 || 10 || 3 || 4 || .750 || 29 || 5.8 |- |style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career | 85 || 260 || 37 || 51 || .725 || 733 || 8.6
Playoffs Year Team GP FGM FTM PTS PPG 1937–38 Akron Firestone Non-Skids 2 6 10 22 11.0 1938–39† Akron Firestone Non-Skids 5 12 17 41 8.2 1939–40† Akron Firestone Non-Skids 8 11 20 42 5.3 1940–41 Akron Firestone Non-Skids 2 7 8 22 11.0Career 17 36 55 127 7.5
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