Showing posts with label Joe Paterno. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joe Paterno. Show all posts
Monday, July 23, 2012
Posthumous Congratulations, Eddie!
As a further result of JoePa being stripped of 111 victories from 1998-2011, while ex-Florida State head coach Bobby Bowden comes the winningest coach in the history of top-flight collegiate gridiron, former longtime Grambling head coach Eddie Robinson now becomes the all-time overall winningest coach in all Division I college football.
Congratulations, Bobby!
Sure is a heluva way to become the all-time winningest coach in FBS history.
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Joe Paterno, Winningest Coach In Major College Football History, R. I. P.
Joe Paterno, the legendary former head football coach at Penn State, the all-time winningest head coach in major college football history, passed away on Sunday at a State College, Pennsylvania hospital at age 85.
Coach Paterno had been in the hospital since January 13 for what his family had called "minor complications" from treatment of lung cancer, with which he was diagnosed with back in November, just days after he was ousted as the Nittany Lions' head coach in the wake of the sexual abuse scandal that involved former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky.
During his 46 seasons as Penn State head coach, "JoePa" won a Football Bowl Subdivision-recored 409 games and two national championships.
Before becoming the Nittany Lions' head coach, he had served as an assistant at the school from 1950, following his graduation from Brown University (where he was quarterback and defensive back) until he became the head coach in 1966.
More than 250 of the players that JoePa coached eventually went to the National Football League.
Coach Paterno had been in the hospital since January 13 for what his family had called "minor complications" from treatment of lung cancer, with which he was diagnosed with back in November, just days after he was ousted as the Nittany Lions' head coach in the wake of the sexual abuse scandal that involved former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky.
During his 46 seasons as Penn State head coach, "JoePa" won a Football Bowl Subdivision-recored 409 games and two national championships.
Before becoming the Nittany Lions' head coach, he had served as an assistant at the school from 1950, following his graduation from Brown University (where he was quarterback and defensive back) until he became the head coach in 1966.
More than 250 of the players that JoePa coached eventually went to the National Football League.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Gators Send Urban Out A Winner Versus Joe Pa's Nittany Lions
At Tampa, Florida:
In Urban Meyer's final game as Florida's head football coach, Omarius Hines and Mike Gillislee ran for touchdowns, Chas Henry knocked in three field goals in the second half, and Ahmad Black sealed the contest with an 80-yard return of an interception for a TD as the Gators (8-5) defeated Joe Paterno's Penn State Nittany Lions (7-6) 37-24 in Saturday's Outback Bowl.
In Urban Meyer's final game as Florida's head football coach, Omarius Hines and Mike Gillislee ran for touchdowns, Chas Henry knocked in three field goals in the second half, and Ahmad Black sealed the contest with an 80-yard return of an interception for a TD as the Gators (8-5) defeated Joe Paterno's Penn State Nittany Lions (7-6) 37-24 in Saturday's Outback Bowl.
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