How long should college athletes play? NCAA is about to give a new answer to that age-old question

The NCAA is on the cusp of extending Division I athlete eligibility from four years of competition to five and essentially setting an age limit, just the development on a topic that has been a point of contention in college athletics for decades. None other than Walter Camp, the “Father of American Football,” was three games into his seventh season — yes, seventh — when his playing career at Yale ended because of injury in 1882. Another football luminary, Amos Alonzo Stagg, was 27 when he w...

By ERIC OLSON