He played for the NFL's Detroit Lions (1941–1943) and the AAFC's Buffalo Bisons (1946), Miami Seahawks (1946), and Los Angeles Dons (1947).

His older brother Johnny Hopp played 14 years in Major League Baseball from 1939 to 1952.

[2] He wa an All-Big Six back in 1940 and helped lead the 1940 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team to the Big Six championship, a berth in the Rose Bowl, and the No.

He passed for 258 yards and rushed for 230 in 1942 and was selected to play in the Pro Bowl.

[4] He died in 1964 at age 46 of an apparent heart attack in Hastings, Nebraska.