Soup Cable

{{short description|American basketball player}}

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Soup Cable

| image = Soup_Cable.jpg

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| position = Guard

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 3

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1913|4|4}}

| birth_place = Akron, Ohio

| death_date = {{death date and age|1995|2|19|1913|4|4}}

| death_place = Prospect, Kentucky

| nationality = American

| high_school = West (Akron, Ohio)

| college =

| years1 = 1937–1941

| team1 = Akron Firestone Non-Skids

| years2 = 1941–1942

| team2 = Toledo Jim White Chevrolets

| highlights =

• 2× NBL champion (1939, 1940)
• 2× All-NBL First Team (1939, 1940)
• All-NBL Second Team (1938)

}}

Howard Wilson "Soup" Cable (April 4, 1913 – February 19, 1995) was an American professional basketball player.{{cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/nbl/players/c/cableho01n.html|title=Soup Cable NBL stats|website=Basketball Reference|publisher=Sports Reference, LLC|accessdate=7 November 2023}} 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).[http://summitcountyhof.com/inductees/610/ 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.{{cite web | url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/ohio/obituary.aspx?n=catherine-e-cable&pid=111557014 | title= Catheine Cable obituary}}