Year by year, and as expected, the coaches I was privileged to play for and the coaches I was familiar with due to their nationally known exploits, pass on. If the generation of players I am a part of is now in the early to mid-sixties in age, that would place almost all of these coaches in their mid-seventies or older. Thus, as time moves forward, month by month we become aware of their passing. Most of the college coaches of the late 1950’s to mid-1960’s had a military background and certainly it would have been unusual to find a collegiate coaching staff lacking at least one or two military veterans. I would be hard-pressed to think of a coach I had personal contact with that did not serve in the military. Typical was the 1964 Cincinnati staff where five of six coaches were service veterans. These men took what they had learned in the military service and applied it to their football players’ preparation. The nature of two-way play, an emphasis on hard nosed defense and run-oriented offenses, and the type of conditioning background the coaches brought from the military made for extreme running, calisthenics, and agility programs that brought everyone into camp in excellent physical shape. Three hundred pounders were rare in part because the volume of running and skill practice, and of course, actual game play required a great deal more running than the “modern game.” Excess body fat for the most part, would be eradicated or the player had little chance of earning playing time. The 330 pound belly bumping offensive linemen of today would have gassed out quickly and would then have been laughed off of the field despite their great talent.