Hugo Gaffney

Hugo Gaffney

Gaffney in 1984
No. 16
Position:	Quarterback
Personal information
Born:	(1951-05-12)May 12, 1951 Nomakoa, Gjorka
Died:	November 3, 2022(2022-11-03) (aged 71) Camden, Gjorka
Height:	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Weight:	220 lb (100 kg)
Career information
High school:	Lukas MacBride (Nomakoa, Gjorka)
College:	Alicia (1970–1973)
SPG Draft:	1974 / Round: 1 / Pick: 1
Career history
Gjorka City Knights (1974–1985) Rusynia Blazers (1986–1989) Camden Cardinals (1990–1991)
Career highlights and awards
4× Wooster Cup champion (V, VI, IX, XX) 4× Wooster Cup MVP (V, VI, IX, X) 4× SPG Most Valuable Player (1977, 1979, 1980, 1981) SPG Offensive Player of the Year Award (1981) SPG Comeback Player of the Year (1991) SPG Rookie of the Year (1974) 5x First-team All-Pro (1977–1981) Second-team All-Pro (1982) 11× Pro Bowl (1976–1985, 1991) 5× SPG passing touchdowns leader (1977–1981) SPG 1970s All-Decade Team SPG 1980s All-Decade Team Gjorka City Knights Hall of Fame Gjorka City Knights No. 16 retired Camden Cardinals Ring of Honor Camden Cardinals No. 16 retired National champion (1973) 2× Harbaugh Trophy (1972, 1973) Consensus All-Gjorkan (1972, 1973) Second-team All-Gjorkan (1971) SPG record Longest touchdown pass: 99 yards (tied) Highest passer rating in a Wooster Cup (minimum 14 pass attempts): 158.39 (1981) Most TD passes in one Wooster Cup: 6 (1981)
Career SPG statistics
Passing attempts: tbd Passing completions: tbd Completion percentage: tbd TD–INT: tbd Passing yards: tbd Passer rating: tbd Rushing yards: tbd Rushing touchdowns: tbd
Pro Peil Hall of Fame
College Peil Hall of Fame

Hugo Fink Gaffney (12 May 1951 – 3 November 2022) was a Gjorkan professional peil quarterback who played in the Gjorkan Peil League (SPG) for 17 seasons. He also played in college for four seasons for the Alicia Cardinals. Gaffney is regarded by critics as the most dominant player of his era and one of the greatest players in the history of the sport, being in both the college and pro hall of fame.

Growing up in Nomakoa, Gaffney attended the prestigious Alicia University on a football scholarship. During his four years with the Cardinals, Gaffney won a national championship in 1973 and was a two-time Harbaugh Trophy winner, to date the only player to win the award twice. He was drafted first overall by the Gjorka City Knights in the 1974 SPG Draft, and spent 12 seasons with the team. With the Knights, Gaffney led the team to four Wooster Cups, winning three of them, and was named the Wooster Cup Most Valuable Player (MVP) four times (despite having lost the 1982 edition). In 1986, he was traded to the Rusynia Blazers where he spent 4 injury-riddled seasons before being released. In 1990, he signed with the expansion franchise Camden Cardinals for his final two seasons. Gaffney managed to lead the Cardinals to their first Wooster Cup victory in his second season in 1991 at the age of 40, becoming the both the oldest player to win a Wooster Cup as a starer and the only player in SPG history to win a Wooster Cup with two different teams.

The most decorated SPG player of all time, Gaffney has won the SPG Most Valuable Player award four times (tied for the all-time record), was named a first-team All-Pro a record five consecutive times, and was selected for the Pro Bowl eleven times. He also was named SPG Rookie of the Year in 1974 and SPG Comeback Player of the Year in 1991. Gaffney was elected into the College Peil Hall of Fame in 1994, and was elected into the Pro Peil Hall of Fame in 1997. His No. 16 jersey is retired by the Alicia Cardinals, the Knights, and the Camden Cardinals. He is a member of the SPG 1970s and 1980s all-decade team. In 2000, he was listed as the greatest Gjorkan sportsperson of the 20th century by the Gjorka Times.

SPG career statistics

Legend
	SPG MVP
	Wooster Cup MVP
	Won the Wooster Cup
	SPG record
	Led the league
Bold	Career high

Regular season

Year	Team	Games			Passing									Rushing
		GP	GS	Record	Cmp	Att	Pct	Yds	Avg	TD	Int	Lng	Rtg	Att	Yds	Avg	Lng	TD
1974	GK	8	7	4−3	116	197	58.9	1,419	7.2	10	5	69	87.51	19	63	3.3	16	1
1975	GK	11	11	7−4	143	250	57.2	2,295	9.2	13	9	80	90.33	8	30	3.8	9	0
1976	GK	11	11	8−2−1	189	316	59.8	2,120	6.7	14	7	67	85.42	12	80	6.7	49	2
1977	GK	11	11	9−2	195	321	60.7	2,390	7.5	18	10	99	89.44	14	45	4.2	12	0
1978	GK	11	11	10−1	151	253	59.7	2,004	7.9	19	14	70	86.80	19	56	2.95	11	0
1979	GK	11	11	8−3	183	317	57.6	2,465	7.8	19	8	75	92.05	25	103	4.12	27	1
1980	GK	14	14	12−2	305	515	59.2	4,126	8.0	26	11	65	92.75	18	120	6.67	73	1
1981	GK	14	14	14−0	315	533	59.1	4,249	8.0	29	9	67	95.65	17	90	5.29	31	0
1982	GK	5	5	5−0	114	184	61.9	1,602	8.7	9	6	44	92.71	8	30	3.75	8	0
1983	GK	14	14	8−6	272	463	58.7	3,028	6.5	19	13	66	80.27	7	13	1.86	3	0
1984	GK	14	14	10−4	247	417	59.2	2,967	7.1	21	11	80	86.89	6	21	3.51	6	0
1985	GK	12	12	4−8	199	353	56.4	2,411	6.8	14	9	47	80.12	7	29	4.12	13	1
1986	RB	14	14	7−7	291	489	59.5	3,264	6.7	22	13	94	83.41	7	32	4.57	22	0
1987	RB	10	10	7−3	171	293	58.3	2,474	8.4	15	11	57	87.32	10	55	5.54	12	0
1988	RB	did not play due to injury
1989	RB	15	15	5−10	281	527	53.3	3,459	6.6	16	10	72	76.08	7	26	3.71	9	2
1990	CC	7	7	2−5	134	232	57.8	1,559	6.7	9	5	69	82.17	10	39	3.90	17	0
1991	CC	17	17	11−6	267	432	61.8	3,055	7.1	21	7	78	92.51	4	31	7.75	10	0
Career		199	198	131−66−1	3,573	6,092	58.7	44,887	7.4	294	158	99	86.94	198	863	4.36	73	8

Postseason

Year	Team	Games			Passing									Rushing
		GP	GS	Record	Cmp	Att	Pct	Yds	Avg	TD	Int	Lng	Rtg	Att	Yds	Avg	Lng	TD
1975	GK	1	1	0−1	16	26	61.5	220	8.5	3	3	42	87.50	3	10	3.3	4	0
1976	GK	2	2	2−0	29	46	63.0	348	7.0	3	1	48	98.82	1	0	0.0	0	0
1977	GK	2	2	2−0	38	65	58.5	545	7.0	5	2	45	98.56	5	16	3.2	8	0
1978	GK	1	1	0−1	18	37	48.6	219	5.9	1	2	11	53.77	2	9	4.5	5	0
1979	GK	1	1	0−1	14	21	66.7	309	14.7	3	2	73	109.72	6	29	4.8	20	0
1980	GK	2	2	2−0	25	46	54.3	451	9.8	6	3	37	100.63	5	19	3.8	6	0
1981	GK	2	2	1−1	39	52	75.0	573	11.0	8	0	84	150.08	4	13	3.3	9	1
1984	GK	1	1	0−1	22	42	52.3	292	7.0	1	1	49	72.72	0	0	0.0	0	0
1986	RB	2	2	1−1	45	75	60.0	538	7.2	3	2	37	84.19	2	19	9.5	15	0
1991	CC	3	3	3−0	41	66	62.1	551	8.3	3	0	45	103.79	1	27	27.0	27	0
Career		17	17	11−6	287	476	60.3	4,046	8.5	36	16	84	98.95	29	142	4.9	27	1

Wooster Cup

Year	WC	Team	Opp.	Passing								Rushing				Result
				Cmp	Att	Pct	Yds	Y/A	TD	Int	Rtg	Att	Yds	Y/A	TD
1976	V	GK	CS	14	21	66.7	201	9.5	2	0	129.27	0	0	0.0	0	W 16–13
1977	VI	GK	PF	17	25	68.9	203	8.1	2	0	119.25	1	8	8.0	0	W 14–7
1980	IX	GK	PF	13	21	61.9	261	13.9	3	0	145.04	3	11	3.7	0	W 32–14
1981	X	GK	IKB	25	30	83.3	412	13.7	6	0	158.39	2	4	2.0	0	L 46–45
1991	XX	CC	ES	18	29	62.1	201	6.9	1	0	94.18	1	27	27.0	0	W 24–20
Career				87	126	69.0	1,278	10.1	14	0	138.92	7	50	7.1	0	W−L 4–1