Hoffman passed away at his home in Atkinson, Nebraska ... and inspiration,” the official social media account for the Nebraska Cornhuskers wrote via X on Wednesday. “We are heartbroken ...

Jack was a passionate Nebraska football fan, and shortly after his diagnosis he struck up a friendship with Huskers running ... on to play on the line of the Atkinson High School football team.

Hoffman was 19. The Atkinson, Nebraska, native captured hearts across the nation when he suited up in a No. 22 Cornhuskers uniform and toted the rock for a 69-yard score at age 7. Hoffman was ...

Jack Hoffman, the cancer patient who captured the hearts of Nebraska football fans and inspired the nation as a 7-year-old ...

A HUSKER FAN WHO INSPIRED A MOVEMENT ACROSS ... with cancer.Services will be held at Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Atkinson, Nebraska. Visitation will be Friday, Jan. 17 from 5 to 8 p.m. at the ...

Family, friends, and other members of the community gathered in Atkinson to remember Jack Hoffman on Saturday.

In late 2011, when the Cornhuskers trailed Ohio State by ... The venture, started in tiny Atkinson, Nebraska -- population 1,245 -- has raised more than $14 million to aid pediatric brain cancer ...

Jack Hoffman introduced himself at the 2013 Husker Spring Game, running for daylight and into the hearts of every Nebraskan. And it was at that point that he became Nebraska’s ...