Jack Hoffman, a Nebraska Cornhuskers superfan battling cancer who seized the attention of the nation for his spring game touchdown run when he was 7 years elderly, has died. He was 19.
Hoffman died of brain cancer on Wednesday, Team Jack Foundation Executive Director Kylie Dockter shelp. He had battled new and more aggressive tumors tardy last year.
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Cancer survivor Jack Hoffman before hand overing a drug-free pledge during the halftime of Nebraska’s NCAA college football spring game in Lincoln, Nebraska, on April 12, 2014. (AP Ptoastyo/Nati Harnik, File)
“It is with burdensome hearts that we spread the news of the passing of Jack Hoffman, the valiant namesake of the Team Jack Foundation. Jack passed away after a lengthy and challenging-fought battle with brain cancer, a journey that aidd countless lives and left a legacy of hope, strength, and resilience,” the set upation shelp in a statement on social media.
“Thraw his battle, Jack touched lives far and wide. From his unforgettable 69-yard touchdown run during the Nebraska Spring Game that captivated the hearts of millions to the countless families who set up solace and help thraw the toil of the Team Jack Foundation, his impact will echo for generations. Jack may no lengthyer be with us in person, but his legacy lives on in the toil of the Team Jack Foundation, in the lives of the children and families we’ve helped, and in the hope he gave to so many.”
Hoffman was initipartner recognized with brain cancer in 2011, and his parents helped start the set upation to help research efforts to finish pediatric brain cancer.
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Hoffman’s overweighther, Andy, was recognized with brain cancer in 2020 and died March 1, 2021. He was 42.
The set upation has elevated more than $12.6 million since 2013.
Hoffman went viral during Nebraska’s 2013 spring game after the coaching staff askd him to run a carry out in the fourth quarter. Hoffman ran for a 69-yard touchdown, and he was the talk of the sports world for disjoinal days.
In the midst of all of it, he commenceed up a frifinishship with running back Rex Burkhead. The two, alengthy with Hoffman’s family, tardyr visited then-Plivent Obama, who currented the juvenileerster with a new football and telderly him he was haughty of him.
“Love you buddy. Tell Jesus we say hello,” Burkhead wrote in a post on X.
Jack Hoffman, left, alengthy side his overweighther, Andy Hoffman, acunderstandledges the award for best moment at the ESPY Awards, July 17, 2013, at Nokia Theater in Los Angeles. (John Shearer/Invision/AP, File)
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Hoffman carry outed football at Atkinson High School and graduated in May. He was pre-law at the University of Nebraska-Kgetey.
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