Word: biff
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Claire kept right on helping her father after her marriage in 1930 to blond Clifford ("Biff") Hoffman, Stanford fullback and captain (1928). She also became a general (inactive) partner with a sizable interest in Biff's brokerage firm, and the company got its share of Bank of America business. But Claire Hoffman never took a public part in her father's bank or her husband's business; she has spent much of her quiet life riding, playing golf (in the 90s) and helping the Y.W.C.A. Said brother L.M.: "She's a good businesswoman ... a hardheaded person...
Boston, now backfield coach at West Point, replaces J. William (Biff) Glassford, who resigned to become head football coach at the University of Nebraska...
...Sunday Skip Stahley, coach at George Washington and a former Harlow assistant, dropped into Cambridge to visit friends, but apparently left town the next day. Biff Glassford, New Hampshire mentor, was the next caller. He too left for the hills after a short conference with Bingham...
...publications seem to possess is Biff Glassford's. It must be admitted that the young New Hampshire coach has all the qualifications for the post, even if Bill Bingham is sincere in his present quandary and no living human really knows the identity of the next mastermind on Soldiers Field. The new coach will probably be in his thirties, will be a standout in his present job, and will undoubtedly be unfamiliar to most football fanciers in America...
Boston correspondents, nevertheless, made full use this afternoon of their right to free speculation. The Record's leading blaster, Dave Egan, pointed his prophetic pen at 32-year of "Biff" Glassford of New Hampshire University, "one of the greatest young coaches in the country." In two years, Glassford has lost only one game, the recent Glass Bowl contest in Toledo...