Jack Hoffman, the young Nebraska football fan who ran for a touchdown during the 2013 Cornhuskers' spring game and became a catalyst for pediatric brain cancer fundraising, died Wednesday after a 14-year battle with cancer.

Jack Hoffman, the cancer patient who captured the hearts of Nebraska football fans and inspired the nation as a 7-year-old when he ran for a touchdown during the Cornhuskers' 2013 spring game, has died at the age of 19.

An indelible piece of Husker nation has passed away. Jack Hoffman, who captured the hearts of college football fans inside and outside of Nebraska in 2013, died

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The inspiring Cornhuskers fan won an ESPY for his 69-yard touchdown run in 2013 as a 7-year-old fighting brain cancer.

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Jack Hoffman, who captured the hearts of Nebraska football fans and inspired the nation, has died at the age of 19.

Despite recurrences over the years, Jack Hoffman, who was 7 when the Cornhuskers helped him to a touchdown, went on to play in high school himself.

Jack Hoffman, the cancer patient who captured the hearts of Nebraska football fans and inspired the nation as a 7-year-old when he ran for a touchdown during the Cornhuskers’ 2013 spring

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