As Auburn halfback Bobby Hoppe drove to his parents' home in Chattanooga, Tennessee, around 1 a.m. on July 20, 1957, he said he suddenly saw a car with its headlights off in the rearview mirror. When ...

AUBURN -- Three years ago, as Auburn fans cheered the 50th anniversary of the 1957 national championship football team, there was one player conspicuously absent from Jordan-Hare Stadium. Bobby Hoppe, ...

Nov. 25—Bobby Hoppe was a star football player at Chattanooga Central, where he led the team to state titles in 1951, 1952 and 1953, and later at Auburn University, where he was a storied running back ...

Former Auburn running back Bobby Hoppe will be the subject of an SEC Network documentary to air later this week. “The Trials of Bobby Hoppe” tells the story of Hoppe, a standout halfback on Auburn’s ...

Legendary high school football star Bobby Hoppe ran over, around - and with his speed - mainly past some of the best football players in the South in the early 1950s. An All-American running back on ...

Many people were interested in the murder trial in Chattanooga of the late former Central and Auburn football standout Bobby Hoppe in 1988, and the same seems to be true so far about the book on him ...

As Auburn halfback Bobby Hoppe drove to his parents' home in Chattanooga, Tennessee, around 1 a.m. on July 20, 1957, he said he suddenly saw a car with its headlights off in the rearview mirror. When ...