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Joseph Vincent Paterno (/ pəˈtɜːrnoʊ /; December 21, 1926 – January 22, 2012), sometimes referred to as JoePa, was an American college football player, athletic director, and coach. He was the head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions from 1966 to 2011. With 409 victories, Paterno is the most victorious coach in NCAA FBS history.
The Ohio State–Penn State football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Penn State Nittany Lions. Ohio State leads the series 25–14. The programs met eight times prior to the 1993 season when Penn State joined the Big Ten Conference. From 1993 through 2023, the teams played annually as a ...
Statue of Joe Paterno. Joe Paterno is a bronze sculpture of Joe Paterno, former head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions football team. It was located on the northeast side of Beaver Stadium on the campus of the Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania until it was removed in 2012 in the aftermath of the Penn State child ...
Penn State's Joe Paterno was offered the Michigan job near the end of the 1968 season. He turned it down, and the Wolverines hired Bo Schembechler How Michigan nearly hired Joe Paterno — not Bo ...
The first Ohio State University football team in 1890. In the mid-1880s the growing fever of the Walter Camp -style of football, formulated between 1880 and 1883 among colleges of the future Ivy League, reached Columbus, Ohio. Abortive early attempts at forming a team occurred in 1886 and 1887. Future Nebraska governor Chester Hardy Aldrich ...
The 1980 Fiesta Bowl was the tenth edition of the college football bowl game, played at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona on Friday, December 26. Part of the 1980–81 bowl game season, it matched the tenth-ranked Penn State Nittany Lions and the #11 Ohio State Buckeyes of the Big Ten Conference . A slight underdog, [1] independent Penn State ...
A Penn State trustee introduced — then withdrew — a resolution to name the field at Beaver Stadium after former football coach Joe Paterno during a board meeting Friday afternoon.
A man testified in court in 2014 that former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno ignored his claims that Jerry Sandusky had sexually assaulted him.