You Can Run With Blocking (circa 1962)

what makes a football champion a good team good coaching lots of hard work a great deal of natural ability any or all might be the answer our champion under discussion now is Dave Hoffman of Iowa State University he is the 1961 national collegiate total offense leader hautman ran and passed for a total of sixteen hundred 38 yards in nine games during the nineteen sixty one season he represented better than seventy percent of the cyclone offense he was called the nearest thing there is to a one-man gang in football many words have been written about what makes him a great player he passes he runs and he defends with a class of a champion written all over him what makes it possible probably the best man had checked with would be Dave Hoffman all big eight halfback and a member of several all-america squads picked for 1961 let's ask Hoffman what makes it one of the nation's top backs on near cinch to be a 1962 all-american first how it stated coaches as I dad out Iowa State has a fine his coaching staff in the u.s. today coach clay Stapleton has infused me light on the football field and off the football field secondly the conditioning training hard work on the field and off the field both mentally and physically finally but not last of all I would like to say it was a blocking I've had this year and ten men up front have done a tremendous job for me i would say without a doubt anybody can run the ball but it takes a real man to get out there in black farm now let's follow hautman through some of his clutch performances to the total offense crown for 1961 the Drake game was one of the toughest in years midway in the fourth period the Cyclones had only a six to nothing league coach clay stapled him twice and his veteran tail back into spot action to build that lead after the Cyclones lost one touchdown on a penalty the next scoring effort was on a pass this time there was no doubt about the action Hoffman collected the past from center and hit Larry montray for the second Iowa State score and a 13 to nothing lead things were a bit more comfortable for the yangshin cyclone fence of Hoffman gave them even more security after Ozzy clay picked up three yards to move the ball to the Drake 25-yard line in Game hautman again this time dick Limerick was his target and he hit the speeding wingback just right to let him Nick the corner of the end zone and pushed the store to 19 to nothing heading to show he could hit a small target as well as the wide open when hofmann drilled a pass to Larry hennes were a two-point conversion Hartman was a real standout in the oklahoma state contest Oklahoma State's Dave Hannah punted to Captain John Cooper and the cyclone later returned the punt of the Oklahoma State 40-yard line Larry montray got in the open and hautman put it right into his arms with dick Limerick Paul Sullivan and Dave Clayburgh blocking hautman follows them into the end zone for a seven to nothing lead over the capo Oklahoma State tied the score but in the third period Hoffman put Iowa State on top to stay dick Limerick dance loaning Jim clapper and Dave Hoover set up the blocks the Hopman used for a 7-yard game then when Oklahoma State had all of his receivers covered hoffman had to take a 3-yard loss but he quickly made that up with some despair watch the blocks is set up by clapper Hoover and saloni after that Hoffman was on his own at oklahoma Ronnie pain sooner putter got off a bad one the Cyclones had the ball of the Oklahoma 17-yard line after one play hautman and Joe Burton teamed up on a brilliant pass play that put the ball on the one-yard line his set up destroying push by Dave Hoover on the very next play at Kansas the Jayhawks at a seven to nothing lead in the second quarter was just 26 seconds left to play in the half Iowa State got the ball and covered 36 yards for a touchdown and had three seconds to spare Hoffman also demonstrated the twin blocking is not available he is still a dangerous runner he first picked up nine yards of the Kansas 27 then with fine protection he dropped back to pass at Larry montray on the Kansas 8-yard line with time almost gone Hoffman and Monterey team up again with that same pass protection giving him all the time he needed hautman waited until montre had reached the end zone montre was covered by two Jayhawks otman flipped it to a clear spot montre stepped in to get it the Cyclones at a 77 ball game and three more seconds of playing time and they needed against Missouri hautman mixed his passing and running to bring the Cyclones a score in the fourth period Dave joined forces with Larry montray again he connected with a big end for an 18-yard dinner at the ball in the tiger 24 Paul Sullivan supplied the key block for Hoffman as he gained three yards around right in with a 10 min upfront giving him good protection hautman went back to pass he let montre outmaneuver the Tiger defense and connected with another touchdown on fast the kids in the endzone made some pretty good moves getting out of monterreys way Hartman had his greatest day against Kansas State rushing and passing for 311 yards and a record of 271 yards on the ground it all started when K State's john drewe punted to hoffman at the Iowa State 24-yard line hautman returned the ball 5 yards and then really went to work three of the 10 min upfront were Bill Smith clapper and JW Burton with these three men throwing some key blots hautman cut loose for a 71-yard scoring run but tied the score against the Wildcats Hoffman isthmus low rudder along with all of his other assets it was a beautiful run but the show was far from over just to point up his versatility Hoffman got together with montre again after Limerick Smith and clapper had led him to a four-yard gain over right tackle hautman was ready to throw once more he spotted montre and cut loose montre was having a bit of trouble with defense man Ralph McCullen and finally shook him off to take the fasces boy there was still one big play left where hoffman before the day was over drew putted once more and Kansas State's Darryl elder downed it on the cyclone 31 the pass from center kleberg and clapper provided the first blocks and then Randy kid and hautman team up for the res kid said he could tell where hoffman was by watching the defenders eyes as he kept running straight at him to let Dave set up the block a 69-yard scoring John at Boston College the passing was more effective with dick limerick doing the catching Hoffman picked up a yard against the big bust in college line with nearly impregnable pass protection hautman again waited until limerick could outfox the defense and then fired to him on the BC 45 big sioux city back added 10 more yards before being pulled down that was too good a play not to repeat so hautman passed a limerick again this time dig out fought his defender took the ball and went in for the score against Nebraska hautman turned in one of the greatest individual runs of the year first he hit burden for a 7-yard pass play for the 50-yard line then with two fine blocks in the line x rays stuffy and saloni he went to work first he ran over the linebacker and then started to maneuver here is a champion who can use his blockers and also run on his own effort in the fourth period of the nebraska game it was hot men and limerick teaming up again after an incomplete pass to JW burton hoffman by limerick free at midfield for another pass completion limerick had a block from Steve Stewart then worked his way to the 6 yard line on his own took two more passes for the hot man limerick combination to bring the Cyclones another score but they were equal to the task the final pass covered the six yards about the Cyclones bring their total to 13 points for the game there's no question it appears but the Dave Hoffman had all summed up real well good coaching hard work and fine blocking by the ten men up in front of him it also takes a mighty fine football player to make full use of all these ingredients it takes a champion Oh