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Tom Cillo (Photo via @cillo.tomInstagram)<\/p>\n
If you thought that players in their late 20s were ancient for college football, then wait until you learn the inspirational story of Tom Cillo.<\/p>\n
And here\u2019s where Tom Cillo\u2019s story gets even more fascinating: The competitive powerlifter graduated from high school way back when in 1984 never attended post-secondary, until now.<\/p>\n
But if you need another reminder that age is just a number, let Mr. Cillo provide the latest example.<\/p>\n
Per Laura Ulrich of NorthCentralPA.com<\/a>, Tom Cillo made the Lycoming College Warriors football team, where he\u2019ll play defensive line. Lycoming is a liberal arts college in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n Now a retired city worker, Cillo said he had dreams of playing college basketball when he was a youth, but struggles with alcohol derailed those hopes:<\/p>\n \u201cThere was quite a number of years where we would get people on work release that would have to work some time off, and I did get to interact with those people on a pretty regular basis,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cA lot of them, their issues were alcohol related. And you know that was something that I had a struggle with for years. They got caught, I didn\u2019t \u2014 I guess that could be the bottom line.\u201d<\/p>\n Let folks like Cillo and legendary NFL head coach Jim Mora<\/a> serve as examples that getting older doesn\u2019t excuse you from neglecting your physical health and well-being.<\/p>\n Cillo\u2019s college football debut at the young age of 58 is now just 15 days away, as the Lycoming Warriors begin their 2025 season against The College of New Jersey Lions on Sept. 6 (1:00 p.m. EST).<\/p>\n The Warriors are coached by Mike Clark, who\u2019s been at the helm since 2008. Lycoming qualified for the NCAA Division III Football Championship playoffs in his first year there, but Cortland ousted them in the first round.<\/p>\n Lycoming\u2019s football team hasn\u2019t experienced much success ever since, however, save for a victory in the 2021 MAC-Centennial Bowl. They\u2019ve gone 4-6 in each of the last three seasons, but we\u2019ll see if Cillo\u2019s arrival can change that.<\/p>\n The post 58-Year-Old Man Who Never Went to College Makes NCAA Football Team History \u2013 Unbelievable Viral Inspiration<\/a> originally published on Total Pro Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Cillo (Photo via @cillo.tomInstagram) If you thought that players in their late 20s were ancient for college…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[68903,4,399,983,398,396,397,15134,99,68904],"class_list":{"0":"post-103388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-58-year-old-man-who-never-went-to-college-makes-ncaa-football-team-history-unbelievable-viral-inspiration","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-football","14":"tag-ncaafootball","15":"tag-newsbreak","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-total-pro-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Tom Cillo (Photo via @cillo.tomInstagram)<\/p>\n