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unusual facts about Penn State–West Virginia football rivalry


Penn State–West Virginia football rivalry

Penn State had consecutive victories over some of West Virginia's greatest quarterbacks, including Oliver Luck and Penn State-transfer Jeff Hostetler.


2008 Michigan State Spartans football team

The Spartans had a bye week before traveling to University Park, Pennsylvania to play their final game of the season against Penn State.

2009 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team

The biggest coup for the University of Delaware in the off-season was the addition of quarterback Pat Devlin, a transfer from Penn State and former high school All-American out of Downingtown East High School.

2010–13 NCAA conference realignment

CHA lost Niagara (which dropped the sport completely) and added Penn State, Lindenwood and RIT.

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.

Cinnaminson High School

Andre Collins (born 1968), current Director of Retired Players with the National Football League Players' Association, All-American football star at Penn State, and 10-year NFL linebacker, former resident.

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.

D. J. Hayden

The season ended in the 2012 TicketCity Bowl with a win against #23 ranked Penn State.

École centrale de Marseille

Being a part of the TIME (Top Industrial Managers for Europe) network, the school has exchange program with many universities accross the world, among them TU Munchen (Germany), Cranfield University (UK), Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), Penn State (USA), University of Sao Paolo (Brasil), University of Waterloo (Canada) or Keio University (Japan).

Gabe Norwood

In high school, he and his brother (Jordan Norwood, a former football player at Penn State where his father coached until 2007) were part of the state championship team at State College Area High School in State College, Pennsylvania.

Garfield Thomas Water Tunnel

The Garfield Thomas Water Tunnel is the U.S. Navy's principal experimental hydrodynamic research facility operated by the Penn State Applied Research Laboratory.

Giles Pellerin

A resident of the Pasadena area for his entire life, he attended his first USC football game while still a student at Huntington Park High School, going to the 1923 Rose Bowl Game in which USC defeated Penn State.

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.

KQV

In addition to its news content and public affairs programs such as Pittsburgh Profiles and Pittsburgh Global Press Conference, the station is home to a number of live sporting events, including NFL football, Penn State football, and WPIAL football and basketball, as well as the Triple Crown and Masters updates.

Matt Bernstein

Bernstein is Jewish, and decided to fast right to honor Yom Kippur, prior to taking on Penn State.

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.

Odette Piñeiro Caballero

In 1988, she married Jesús Edgardo Colón, the current mayor of Orocovis, Puerto Rico, with whom she has two sons, both college students, one at Penn State and the other in Puerto Rico.

Penn State–Pittsburgh football rivalry

Pitt's coach Johnny Majors moved Tony Dorsett to fullback for the second half, and the Panthers went on to defeat Penn State, 24–7, finishing the regular season 11–0, on their way to a Sugar Bowl victory over Georgia and their first National Championship in 39 years.

Once considered one of the most important college football rivalries north of the Mason–Dixon line, this intrastate rivalry was deemed the biggest annual game for both schools for a large part of their histories.

The last scheduled game in the series was played at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, PA, on September 16, 2000 when Pitt shutout Penn State 12–0.

Penn State–Syracuse football rivalry

In 1987, Coach Dick MacPherson finally led Syracuse to a resounding 48–21 victory over the Nittany Lions in the Dome.

Syracuse won again the following year in Happy Valley but lost the last two games before the series was suspended in 1991.

Pitman, New Jersey

Played collegiately for two seasons at Penn State with brother Joe, then transferred and spent last two seasons with the UCLA Bruins.

Rickey Dixon

He played in the 1985, 1986, 1987, and 1988 Orange Bowls, in two National Championship games, and was a key figure in Oklahoma's 1985 National Championship win over Penn State in the 1986 Orange Bowl.

Scott Tolzien

After Allan Evridge was benched following dismal performances against Michigan, Ohio State, and Penn State, Tolzien saw his first major action for Wisconsin against Iowa in Kinnick Stadium.

Sharrif Floyd

Floyd earned a starting spot and contributed two tackles, including one for loss, in the Gators' win over Penn State in the 2011 Outback Bowl.

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.

Syracuse–West Virginia football rivalry

The trophy itself weighs 55 pounds and was sculpted by Syracuse player Jim Ridlon.


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