In the university, Pat was near straight-A. His father was Miami's business officer (and Athletic Advisory Board member) under various titles for many years.
He grew up as a campus kid: his home a house at what then was the edge of the campus, now Miami's McGuffey Museum surrounded by the university. Pat Roudebush '34: Pat Roudebush, remembered by Oxford contemporaries as "All-Everything," was an outstanding student and campus leader as well as a fine athlete. He was inducted into the Miami Hall of Fame in 1979. After college, Hoover became the owner-manager of the Capitol-Varsity Equipment, Inc., based at Oxford. He was end coach on the staffs of Coaches George Blackburn, Woody Hayes and Ara Parseghian in the football seasons 1948-51. During student days Hoover was a partner, with Sigma Chi fraternity brother Art Goldner, in the old College restaurant. His teammates included five who already are Hall of Fame members and eminent representatives of the Cradle of Coaches: Paul Dietzel, Mel Olix, Ara Parseghian, Paul Shoults and Richard (Doc) Urich. In those three post war seasons, he helped Miami compile a record of 23-5-1. Hoover returned from World War II Navy service to earn three more letters under Coach Sid Gillman in 1945, 19, becoming one of Miami's first two four-year lettermen of "modern" times. A product of Louisville, Ohio, Hoover was one of those freshmen with whom Coach Stu Holcomb in 1942 began rebuilding Miami football. Bill Hoover '48: Bill Hoover at 167 pounds was an all-Ohio end for three years and captain of the undefeated, once-tied 1947 Redskins who won Miami's first postseason football bowl venture over Texas Tech January 1, 1948.