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By Andrew Marden

BOISE - "I've been playing for 56 years. I started in 1950."

And at the age of 75, Stan Swanson doesn't care that the guys he shares a field with are less than half his age.

"I'm a lot slower, and my reflexes are a lot slower," says Swanson, who is also the lacrosse coach at Eagle High School. "As you get older and you get more experienced and you physically slow down, you learn how to cheat more and catch up."

But once upon a time, Stan didn't have to play catch up.

In 1954, at the age of 23, Stan Swanson won the Schmeisser Trophy as the nation's outstanding defenseman while playing at the Naval Academy. That was during his senior year, when he helped lead his school to a national championship over rival Army.