• Played three years of Golden Bears football and hockey (1946-48).
• The U of A football and hockey teams Harry was on each won the western conference championship over three consecutive years.
• Member of the Edmonton Eskimos (1949-50).
• Enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy (1944-46), where he starred on Navy teams in hockey and track.
• Served as executive secretary to Premier Peter Lougheed and later as chairman and CEO of Alberta Government Telephones.

Harry Hobbs was born in Windsor, Ontario and entered Kennedy Collegiate there before moving to Calgary where he attended Central High School. In 1944, his graduating year at Central, he was named outstanding male athlete for his achievements in basketball and track. While at Central he was an all-star offensive and defensive halfback in the Alberta Junior Football League, first with the West End Tornadoes and then the North Hill Blizzards. Those teams won provincial championships in all four years of his junior football career. Following his enlistment in the Royal Canadian Navy in 1944, he played football for the Navy team in Edmonton.

He played on provincial championship teams with the Juvenile and later the Junior Royals hockey clubs. The Calgary Navy-Air Force Combines in the Alberta Senior Services League provided a real highlight for a young man not yet out of high school. The lineup included some of the best players of the era, led by "Sweeny' Schriner and coached by 'Tiny" Thompson, both of whom were later inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, as were Neil Colville and Max Bentley, among the hockey legends who were stars for other teams in the league. In baseball, Harry was a member of the Calgary Purity 99's and Calgary Navy teams. He also represented the Navy in track in both Calgary and Halifax, and senior hockey while stationed at St. Hayacinthe, Quebec. Versatility was his trademark.

Following service in the Navy, he enrolled at this university and earned a B.A. in economics in 1949. At Alberta he was an outstanding running-back and defensive back from 1946 to 1948 and in winter added his talents to the Bears hockey team. His feat of earning a Block A in both football and hockey for Bears teams that won six conference titles in three consecutive years, stands alone in Alberta's sports history.

His considerable skills as a football player led to the unique situation in 1946 of playing for both the Bears and the Calgary Stampedes of the CFL - commuting to line up with the Stamps whenever the schedule allowed. After graduation he played for the Edmonton Eskimos in 1949 and 1950.

His athletic talents were applied to curling in later years. He curled for Glenn Gray in winning the Grand Challenge Edmonton Bonspiel in 1958. There was also a Grand Aggregate win in Calgary in 1967. As a volunteer, he coached high school football at Scona in Edmonton, and served as a director in junior football, curling, on the boards of the Calgary Booster Club, and the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede, and as Governor of the Calgary Seniors Golf Association.

Professionally, he was active in sales before being named Executive Secretary to Premier Peter Lougheed, and later, Deputy Minister of the Executive Council and Secretary to the Alberta Cabinet In 1983 he became Chairman and CEO of Alberta Government Telephones. He has served on the board of directors for numerous Canadian companies and as a trustee of the Institute for Research on Public Policy.