It was the first meeting of the season at Lycoming College when football coach Michael Clark, 54, asked every first-year student to introduce themselves. It went something like this: Adrian Alena from Hackensack High School (Class of 2025), Tyler Cormier from Saint Mark’s (Class of 2025), so on and so forth until a much deeper and older voice paced itself to join in. Tom Cillo, Williamsport Area High School, Class of 1984.

You heard that right. The program has a 58-year-old DL on its team. Cillo graduated from high school four decades ago, where he played the sport as a freshman. But after a few run-ins with substance abuse and a 33-year-long career serving his city’s streets and parks department, Cillo retired. The very next thing he did was to return to his alma mater, first employed a

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