Background
Hibbert grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, and played football as a quarterback at Phoenix Union High School.
Hibbert grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, and played football as a quarterback at Phoenix Union High School.
While playing for the in 1958, he was the National Collegiate Athletic Association receiving leader in 1958 with 61 receptions. He also set the National Collegiate Athletic Association record for receptions in a season, a record that stood until 1960. At five feet, nine inches, he was considered too small to be recruited by the major colleges.
He began his college football career at Phoenix College, where he was an All-American junior college quarterback in 1956 and 1957.
Hibbert transferred to the and played for the Arizona Wildcats football team Playing at the halfback position, Hibbert caught 61 passes for 608 yards and four touchdowns in 10 games during the 1958 college football season.
He caught 12 passes in Arizona"s 33–6 loss to Texas Technical on November 8, 1958, the most receptions in a college football game since Editor Brown of Fordham caught 15 passes in a game in 1952. His 61 passes led the National Collegiate Athletic Association in receptions in 1958.
He broke the previous National Collegiate Athletic Association record of 52 receptions set by Editor Brown in 1952.
Hibbert"s record was tied in 1959 by Chris Burford of Stanford in 1959 and broken in 1960 by Hugh Campbell of Washington State with 66 receptions. He died in 2009 at age 70 in Paradise Valley, Arizona.