He had held himself to an exceedingly high standard with what he called his вЂњgrand experimentвЂќ: fielding outstanding teams with disciplined players whose graduation rates far exceeded that at most football powers.

PaternoвЂ™s abrupt firing at 84 was something that could hardly have been imagined, although he had stubbornly clung to the spotlight at an age when most head coaches, whatever their renown, had retired. 9, Paterno and Spanier were fired by the universityвЂ™s board of trustees because of their failure to go to the police after they were told of an accusation against Sandusky in 2002. Within days his former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was indicted and arrested on multiple charges of sexually abusing young boys extending back to his time on PaternoвЂ™s staff. Spanier, presented Paterno with a commemorative plaque in a postgame ceremony shown on the huge scoreboard at Beaver Stadium. Penn StateвЂ™s president at the time, Graham B. 29, 2011, the victory was PaternoвЂ™s 409th, and he surpassed Eddie Robinson of Grambling for most career victories among N.C.A.A. When Penn State defeated Illinois, 10-7, on Oct. He lived in State College.Дuring his 46 years as head coach, as he paced the sideline in his thick tinted glasses, indifferent to fashion in his white athletic socks and rolled-up baggy khaki pants, Paterno seemed as much a part of the Penn State landscape as Mount Nittany, overlooking the central Pennsylvania campus known as Happy Valley. PaternoвЂ™s family announced in mid-November that he had received a diagnosis of lung cancer after a visit to a physician regarding a bronchial illness a few days earlier. The cause was lung cancer, according to Mount Nittany Medical Center, where he had been treated. His family announced his death in a statement released Sunday morning. Joe Paterno, who won more games than any other major-college football coach, and who became the face of Pennsylvania State University and a symbol of integrity in collegiate athletics only to be fired during the 2011 season amid a child sexual abuse scandal that reverberated throughout the nation, died Sunday in State College, Pa.

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