Aviator, motor car racer, sportsman, intellectual, public figure; Jorge Newbery was quite the swell in turn-of-the-century Argentina.
When he proposed to fly a hot air balloon, named "el Huracan" on a record-breaking flight in 1909 which took in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil, he inspired members of the newly founded football club, "Verde Esperanza y Nunca Pierde" (Green Hope and Never Lose) to change the ridiculous name they had settled on for a better one.
Well, another factor in the change was that when they went to get a rubber stamp made, the shop owner recommended they opt for a shorter, cheaper name. A poster of Newbery’s balloon on the wall of the shop caught their eye, and the rest is history.
The wags even wrote to Newbery asking permission to use Huracan as the team’s name and badge, and he gave his "most complete approval."
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