Old College Football Games
Posted By admin On 09/04/22The buzz-term for Old Time Radio is 'OTR'. OTR usually means radio broadcasting from the golden age of radio, mostly before 1964.These shows from the pre-television age include adventure, comedies, mystery shows, western dramas and shows from World War II. 1966 - Plays-only Notre Dame vs. Michigan State game. It's one of the most controversial games - ND coach Ara Parseghian chose to run the clock out for an intentional tie, preserving their #1 ranking. Actually, just found this list which appears to be a good set of old games (20+ years). Mostly highlights, but there are some full games mixed in.
While being in your late 30s and 40s is not unheard of in the NFL and in fact has become increasingly more common, playing college football at this age is a rarity. The oldest players on this list, who are in their 60s and 50s, are old enough to be the grandparents of their teammates! However, all of these players defied the odds and played at least one football game while attending college later in life.
As of June 2019, this list is as accurate as possible and will be updated as needed.
7. James Stefanou
At 32 years of age, James Stefanou of the University of Colorado Boulder is currently the oldest active college football player. Stefanou, who is originally from Australia, had never played in an organized American football before joining his school’s team in 2017. He did have some experience playing American football for ProKick Australia, which helps Australian athletes develop the skills they need to transition to American college and NFL football.
Although Stefanou did not grow up playing American football, he has always been an athlete. Stefanous played soccer and was on the U19 team, a youth progression team that is the feeder squad to Australia’s Olympic team.
Did You Know?
James Stefanou regularly kicks 60-yard field goals in practice and has dreams of becoming an NFL kicker.
6. Tim Frisby
Tim Frisby may not have been quite as old as most of the other players on this list, but he was 39 years old when he walked into football tryouts for the University of South Carolina in 2004. Frisby was still in peak physical condition after serving as a U.S. Army Ranger in the first Gulf War and in Kosovo.
Frisby played as a wide receiver for the University of South Carolina until 2005 when he was 40 years old. His time playing football garnered a lot of attention and Frisby even contemplated turning his life story into a movie. In the most recent update in 2014, Frisby was working as a personal trainer at a Gold’s Gym.
Did You Know?
During the height of the coverage of his story, Tim Frisby appeared on “The Late Show” with David Letterman and “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno.
5. Bob Schembre
Not too much is known about Bob Schembre – for whatever reason his story was not covered by any big news sites – but he did join the Westminster College football team in 2008 when he was 51 years old (he turned 52 later in the year).
Schembres two sons had previously played football for Westminster and Schembre arranged a meeting with the coach under the notion that he wanted to talk about his sons. However, Schembre told the coach that he wanted to come and play football for the school. The coach gave Schembre a shot and he eventually made the team.
Unlike the other players on this list, Schembre had never played organized football at all, but he had served in the Navy and was still relatively fit.
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Bob Schembre, who had been a minister for several decades, earned a theology degree from Westminster College and went on to coach a home-school high school football team in 2014.
4. Joe Thomas Sr.
Joe Thomas Sr., father of Dallas Cowboys’ Joe Thomas Jr. is the oldest person to play NCAA Division I football. Thomas played in 2016 for South Carolina State University at the age of 55. During the game, Thomas, who is a running back, carried the ball for three yards.
Thomas had grown up near South Carolina State University and had always wanted to play college football. Although Thomas did play in high school and was a promising running back, but wasn’t able to play while he was young. When Thomas Jr. enrolled in school, Thomas Sr. decided that he would too and that he would play with his son. Unfortunately, although they both made the team, they never got a chance to play together because Thomas Sr. had gotten injured in a car accident. After taking a few years to recover, Thomas Sr. was finally able to play college football.
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Throughout his childhood, Joe Thomas Sr. was partially deaf because his ears were clogged up with dirt and grime for years after working with his parents on various farms. Unfortunately, no one discovered that Thomas’ ears were clogged up until he was 17 and he had spent years struggling to hear.
3. Mike Flynt
Before his record was broken in 2009 by Tom Thompson, Mike Flynt had been the oldest known NCAA collegiate football player in history. At the age of 59, Flynt re-enrolled at his alma mater, Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas, to play one more year of football. Flynt said that he had always regretted getting kicked off the team – for getting into several fights on campus – before his senior year of college.
Unlike some of the oldest players on this list, Flynt was in exceptional physical shape as he had stayed fit while working as a strength and conditioning coach at Nebraska, Oregon, and Texas A&M universities. Finding out that he was still eligible to play at Sul Ross State, Flynt tried out and made the team.
Did You Know?
While Mike Flynt played in the 2007 season, he had an avid fan club named the “Sul Ross Baby Boomers.”
2. Tom Thompson
In 2009, Tom Thompson was a graduate student at Austin College in Sherman, Texas and made history when he played in a football game at 61 years of age. Thompson only played in that one game that season and ended up scoring the extra point for Austin College’s only touchdown in the game. Prior to the 2009 game, Thompson had last played organized football nearly 50 years ago when he was in high school.
While Alan Moore when he played a college football game in 2011, Thompson holds the record for being the oldest NCAA collegiate football player ever (Moore played for an NAIA school). Thompson details his accomplishment and life in his autobiography titled Kick Start.
Did You Know?
To commemorate Tom Thompson’s record-breaking accomplishment, his Austin College jersey is on display at the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Indiana.
1. Alan Moore
Alan Moore became the oldest college football player ever when he joined Faulkner University’s team at the age of 61. Moore scored an extra point in the 2011 season opener game, providing Faulkner with the lead early in the game’s second half.
Moore had previously played college football in 1968 at Mississippi’s Jones College. However, Moore was drafted and served a year in the military during the Vietnam War. After the war, Moore worked in construction for years before the economy slowed down in 2009. With more time on his hands, Moore decided he wanted to try football again after watching a game at Jones College with his grandchildren. A coach at Holmes Community College allowed Moore to play for the school and Moore later transferred to Faulkner University where he made the team.
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Alan Moore chose to wear old-fashioned square-toe kicking shoes and kicked in the old-style rather than the modern soccer style. Moore’s kicking shoe had the word “believe” written on it.
Old College Football Games
All-American College Football is a fun, little-known American football game developed by Micro League and published by IBM, back when the PC giant was aggressively entering the PC game market (and from which they would withdraw years later). A follow-up of sorts to the earlier game NFL Pro League Football, All-American College Football tweaks the engine and applies it for college football. The result is a solid, albeit a little 'dry', football game that is well worth a look by fans of the sport.
Similar to Konami's largely forgotten NFL Pro Football, All-American College Football tries to combine basic coaching options with multimedia elements to enhance the package. Most of these bells & whistles work quite well, although some are more redundant than useful. Some of the more innovative features are a national poll system and the ability to create matchups from past or present players. Play-by-play commentary is in general quite good, although sometimes the commentator overacts his lines a little bit. The game offers a huge selection of play options to choose from, although they are by no means as sophisticated as Tom Landry or the perennial favorite NFL Challenge.
Overall, All-American College Football strikes a nice balance between being an easy, accessible game and a deep sport simulation... although it leans more toward the former. If you want a quick game of college football and don't care much for minutiae or extreme realism, this may just be your cup of tea.
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NCAA Football 98, Micro League Football Deluxe Edition (a.k.a. Micro League Football: The Coach's Challenge), All-American College Football, Oldtime Baseball, NFL Pro League Football, Front Page Sports Football Pro '98, Tony La Russa Baseball 3, Front Page Sports: Baseball Pro '98