Word: biff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Claire E. Giannini, daughter of Amadeo Peter Giannini (Bank of Italy); and Clifford ("Biff") Hoffman, onetime (1928) captain of Stanford University's football team; at San Mateo, Calif...
West Point, N. Y., October 16 Army's aerial attack clicked to perfection this afternoon in the final hard scrimmage for the cadets before the Harvard game. Playing against a scrub team augmented by first string substitutes, Coach "Biff" Jones' charges galloped down the field at will...
West Point, N. Y., October 14--Coach "Biff" Jones diagnosis of the mistakes made in the Davidson game constituted the main part of today's workout for the Army team. He held a long skull session, pointing out the errors that his aides had noted, in an effort to perfect a smooth running machine...
...Francisco, eleven Eastern stars played eleven Western stars in the fourth annual football game for the benefit of the Shriners' Crippled Childrens' Hospital. On the Eastern team was famed Howard Harpster, Carnegie Tech quarterback; on the Western team was Biff Hoffman, famed Stanford fullback. The Eastern team...
Another huge horde filled the stadium hoping to watch the Army repel the western invasion. Biff Hoffman, the Stanford fullback, came out with his stockings down; other Stanford players were without headguards. Opposite them, but not much in the way, stood the neat, trim, speedy Army eleven with Cagle at its back. The Stanford team, which is not the best in the far West, was ludicrously superior to the Army, which has been considered the best team in-the East. One play, an antique variation of a fake "statue of liberty" never failed to gain ten yards. The members...