COLUMBUS (WCMH)–Cyril Costoff first marched for the Ohio State band in the 1940s.

Today, the 90-year-old made his final march at Ohio Stadium.

“This is it. This is my swan song,” said Costoff at Saturday morning’s Skull Session.

Costoff said he doesn’t physically get around well enough to march anymore. He was Ohio State’s Drum Major in 1944 and since 1973, he’s been coming back to campus to march with the alumni band.

“It’s just electricity every time you come back,” he added.

But Costoff isn’t the oldest active member of the alumni band – that honor goes to Anthony Violi, a Steubenville native who turns 98 in May. He joined the Ohio State Marching Band in 1937.

Saturday marked just the second time in the alumni band’s 50 years of gathering that Violi has not marched. He’s healing a broken foot after being hit by a car just two days ago – but that didn’t stop him from attending.

“I love this place,” Violi said. “I made up my mind that I was going to come.”

And the best may be yet to come for Violi’s time with the alumni band.

“I’m going to march as long as I can. They told me when I get to 100, I can ‘dot the I’ and I’m shooting for that.”

Violi turns 99 on May 4.