As a result, Huffman reportedly played for Ohio State's football team in "every quarter of every game save one" in the four years from 1918–1921.

[3] In 1921, he was selected as a first-team All-American tackle by Football World, based on the collected opinions of 267 coaches.

[4] After Ohio State lost to California, 28–0, in the 1921 Rose Bowl, Huffman told reporters, "We were defeated, but at the same time we are not downhearted.

At the conclusion of his four-year football career at Ohio State, an Ohio newspaper reported:"Big of frame but not ponderous and gifted with unusual speed for so large a man, Huffman entered college without ever having donned a football suit.

Outfitted with old togs and utterly green at the game he turned up for the varsity (it was the S. A. T. C. year when freshmen were eligible) he quickly adapted himself and soon won a place on the Buckeye line.

[7] He played for the Zanesville Greys during the summer of 1922, but at the end of July he decided to give up baseball for the rest of the season because of a sore arm that had kept him on the bench for several weeks.