Bruce Hoffine  - Class of '44

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• Hoffine graduated from Marshfield in 1944 after a distinguished athletic career that included being on the 1942 state champion football team and being captain of the 1943-44 basketball team. He played one year of basketball for the University of Oregon before returning to Coos Bay.
• Three years as a junior high coach, including winning what was recognized as the junior high state championship, he became the high school basketball coach in 1951.
• He coached for 24 years. In that span, Marshfield went to the state tournament 12 times,
• He coached the state championship team in 1953 and his teams finished as runner-up three other times.
• He never had a losing season as coach
• Class AAA coach of the year in Oregon in 1974.
• His overall record was 413-176, a .701 winning percentage.
• He was Marshfield's athletic director from 1964 until retiring in 1982.

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Back L to R  
Walt Paczesniak, Tony Koreiva, 
Dean Sheldon James Popp, 
John Provart

Front L to R: Wayne Fox,  
Walter McClure,
Bruce Hoffine, 
Pete Susick, 
Chet Haliski 

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Coaching Legends: 1957

Front lower left to right: Walt Paczesniak, 
Pete Susick with          
               clipboard,
Jim Popp, 
Tony Koreiva

Back left to right: 
Wayne Fox,
Walt McClure, 
Chet Haliski, 
Bruce Hoffine, 
Dean Sheldon

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