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Meet the oldest player in college football: Tom Cillo, 58, goes back to school 'in the trenches' at D-III Lycoming College
Tom Cillo decided to enroll at Division III Lycoming College and try out for the football team this summer. He tells SN what its been like and how he made the team.
Fourteen players have played an NFL game at age 44 or older, and nine of them played past their 45th birthday.
He has joined a small but elite group of college football players who play when they're reaching retirement age.
If Cillo plays a snap, he will become the oldest player to appear in an NCAA game since Tom Thompson debuted as a kicker for DIII Austin College at the age of 61 in 2009.
The shouts of “Yeah, Tom!” started the moment Tom Cillo crossed the white paint on the sideline and stepped onto the field at Girardi Stadium. After a couple of bounces to expend some of the nervous ...
Tom Green, of Westminster, is aiming to become one of the oldest student-athletes in NCAA history by suiting up for the McDaniel College football team.
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