--- title: WWII Vet Scores a Touchdown at Kansas State Alumni Game description: An 89-year-old World War II veteran scored a touchdown at a recent Kansas State alumni flag football game. canonical: https://time.com/3839130/89-year-old-football-touchdown/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-28T21:03:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:19:14.908Z og:title: This WWII Vet Scoring a Touchdown Is the Most Inspiring Thing You'll See Today og:description: An 89-year-old World War II veteran scored a touchdown at a recent Kansas State alumni flag football game. og:url: https://time.com/3839130/89-year-old-football-touchdown/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This WWII Vet Scoring a Touchdown Is the Most Inspiring Thing You'll See Today twitter:description: An 89-year-old World War II veteran scored a touchdown at a recent Kansas State alumni flag football game. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This WWII Vet Scoring a Touchdown Is the Most Inspiring Thing You'll See Today  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Apr 28, 2015 9:03 PM UTC  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Apr 28, 2015 9:03 PM UTC This man played college football at Kansas State. He served in World War II. He played in the 1948 Orange Bowl. And now at age 89, he’s still scoring touchdowns. Bryan Sperry was playing at an alumni flag football game at Kansas State when he got the football at the 37-yard line, [according to the Bleacher Report](http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2444906-89-year-old-bryan-sperry-scores-td-in-kansas-alumni-flag-football-game). He started running, albeit slowly, and made it all the way to the end zone. Fair warning: the group hug with his teammates after he scores and the uplifting music in the video may make you tear up. WWII Vet Scores a Touchdown at Kansas State Alumni Game ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3839130/89-year-old-football-touchdown/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3839130/89-year-old-football-touchdown/"},"headline":"This WWII Vet Scoring a Touchdown Is the Most Inspiring Thing You'll See Today","datePublished":"2015-04-28T21:03:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:19:14.908Z","description":"He played football in the Orange Bowl in 1948","url":"https://time.com/3839130/89-year-old-football-touchdown/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Sports topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3839130/89-year-old-football-touchdown/","name":"This WWII Vet Scoring a Touchdown Is the Most Inspiring Thing You'll See Today"}}]}] ```