Joe Paterno

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Joe Paterno (2006)

Joseph Vincent "Joe" Paterno (born December 21, 1926 in Brooklyn , New York , † January 22, 2012 in State College , Pennsylvania ) was one of the most successful American American football coaches in college football .

Life

Paterno studied at Brown University and played there, among other things, as a quarterback American football .

Paterno coached the Pennsylvania State University football team from 1966 to 2011 . From 1950 to 1965 he worked there as an assistant coach. After winning the NCAA National Championship for the second time in 1986 , Paterno was named Sportsman of the Year by Sports Illustrated magazine .

He won 409 games with his team, more than any other coach before him. He and his team won the College Football National Championship twice and the Big Ten Conference championship three times . However, in the course of the investigation into child abuse on July 23, 2012, a total of 112 victories in the period from 1998 to 2011 were revoked by the NCAA. Thus the number of victories is reduced to 298 and Paterno dropped from first place to fifth

In 2007, Paterno was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame .

In the course of a child molestation investigation against his former long-time defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky, Paterno announced on November 9, 2011 that he would be leaving coaching at the end of the current season and retiring. However, a few hours later he was fired from Pennsylvania State University with immediate effect. Paterno himself was not investigated because he had behaved legally correctly when he promptly reported the triggering observation of an incident on the university campus in 2002 by his assistant coach, Mike McQueary, to the sports director Tim Curley and the vice president of the University Gary Schultz passed on.

In addition to a $ 60 million fine and a four-year ban on bowl games, the university has been stripped of all victories it has had since 1998. So Joe Paterno's record as the winning college football coach is invalid. He died as a result of his lung cancer.

literature

  • Joe Posnanski: Paterno . Simon & Schuster, New York City, USA 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joe Paterno, 85, this in State College
  2. ↑ Nittany Lions ESPN.com's 60 million fine and four-year bowl game suspension on July 23, 2012.
  3. ↑ http://www.cnbc.com/id/45223138
  4. ↑ http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11313/1188812-100.stm
  5. ^ Paterno gone, but questions at Penn State remain , Rivals.com, November 11, 2011. Retrieved November 11, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Paterno, Joe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paterno, Joseph Vincent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American coach in college football
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 2012
Place of death State College , Pennsylvania