Watch an 89-Year-Old WWII Vet Score a Touchdown at the Kansas Alumni Game
89-year-old Bryan Sperry, a former Kansas football player and WWII vet, scored a huge TD last weekend.
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The fact that 89-year-old Bryan Sperry can move so gingerly and "run" 40+ yards while grown men fake tackle each other around him is, well, incredible. Last Saturday, Sperry participated in a University of Kansas football alumni game at Memorial Stadium. Before the actual team had their spring scrimmage, Sperry scored his heartwarming touchdown in dramatic fashion, feinting and smiling every which way en route to the end zone.
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Sperry is a WWII veteran who played football for both Kansas and Kansas State. Before the war, he was at State, but after serving for three years, including fighting at the Battle of the Bulge as a 19-year-old, he attended Kansas. Sperry's biggest highlight as a Jayhawk was a pass he caught in the 1948 Orange Bowl, which Kansas lost to Georgia Tech 20-14.
“That was fun,” Sperry told the Kansas City Star after scoring his TD. “I didn’t know if I could run.”
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