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1. A Small Liberal Arts College Needed A Coach. The 73-Year-Old Inventor of the Air Raid Showed Up

“Hal Mumme has never been more elated to be pestered with allergies.

It means he’s outside, with that signature towel draped behind his neck, squinting at the execution of his particular style of offense that once forced the long-antiquated nature of college football to eventually embrace a revolution. He snorts and he sneezes. He hacks and he laughs. And then apologizes, and does it a bit more. He’s 73-and-a-half, the oldest full-time college football coach in America, just a shade over two weeks older than North Carolina’s Bill Belichick, the owner of eight Super Bowl rings.

Mumme is in his fourth month as offensive coordinator at Division III Centenary College in Shreveport, La., a private liberal arts college which has a full-time enrollment of less than 700 students. It’s the oldest college in Louisiana, celebrating its 200th anniversary as an institution in 2025. The school’s football program returned in 2024 from a 77-year absence, a signal that in some places in America, the sport will never entirely vanish.”

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