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13 unusual facts about Joe Paterno


1988 Republican National Convention

The convention featured speeches by Joe Paterno, Pat Robertson, a keynote address by Thomas Kean, then-governor of New Jersey, and the music of the Jimmy Maxwell Orchestra.

Andrew Szczerba

Szczerba attended Penn State University and played football under head coaches Joe Paterno and Tom Bradley during his five seasons with the program.

Brian Cuban

Brian Cuban has been a repeatedly interviewed and quoted source for opinions about the Penn State sex abuse scandal, Joe Paterno, Jerry Sandusky, and Penn State.

Craig Cirbus

After graduating, he became an assistant coach at Cheektowaga Central High School before serving as an assistant coach under Joe Paterno at Penn State.

Federal Moguls

While attending the school Walsh became widely known on campus as “Flow-Pa”, a name derived from the nickname of the school’s head football coach Joe Paterno.

Fred Berlin

It posited that the Freeh Report reached a number of dubious conclusions regarding the actions of Joe Paterno and other officials at Penn State University.

John P. Surma

As the vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of Pennsylvania State University, Surma informed longtime Penn State football coach Joe Paterno late at night, and over the telephone, that he had been terminated without a hearing amid the media firestorm in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal.

Johnny Bach

He spent 18 years there, taking seven Ram teams to post-season tourneys, before starting a long and successful coaching career at Penn State, where he joined three former Brown friends: Rip Engle, Joe Paterno, and Joe McMullen.

Kim Hammond

The Nitanny Lions were ranked 10th nationally under second year coach Joe Paterno, and favored by two touchdowns over the upstart Noles.

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

In 1983, as Penn State football coach Joe Paterno was being honored for his first national championship, he gave a speech challenging the university's Board of Trustees to make Penn State number one in academics as well as athletics.

Robbie Gould

Although originally interested in professional soccer, he eventually chose football and asked his high school principal to send a letter of recommendation to Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno, who invited him to try out as a freshman walk-on.

Rock Center with Brian Williams

It was Sandusky's first public interview since the abrupt firing of head coach Joe Paterno the week before, whom Sandusky had served as defensive coordinator under for decades with the Nittany Lions.

Superleadership

Manz and Sims use the examples of Joe Paterno, head football coach for Penn State from 1966–2011, and Phil Jackson, head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team, as examples of superleadership in sport.


National Signing Day

He took out a picture of himself with Penn State head coach Joe Paterno during the press conference and announced his decision to sign with Penn State.