Robert Hoppe (November 13, 1934 – April 7, 2008) was an American football halfback who played on the 1957 National Championship team at Auburn University.
[4] Hoppe was one of the most highly recruited football players of his era with 19 colleges seeking his commitment, including Auburn, Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, North Carolina, Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina, Louisiana State, Miami, Rice, Indiana, SMU, and Texas Tech.
Just prior to his senior season Hoppe allegedly shot and killed a Chattanooga bootlegger, Don Hudson.
[9] After leaving the Redskins, Hoppe returned to Auburn to complete his Bachelor of Science in Education degree which he received in 1961.
In 1988, thirty-one years after Don Hudson was killed, a Chattanooga grand jury indicted Bobby Hoppe for his murder, in one of America's first cold case trials.