Joe Paterno ... Joseph Vincent Paterno (/ pəˈtɜːrnoʊ /; December 21, 1926 – January 22, 2012), sometimes referred to as JoePa, was an American college football player, athletic director, and coach.

May 28, 2020 · Paterno was the first coach to win all four of the major bowls — Rose, Orange, Fiesta, and Sugar and saw almost 300 of his former charges go on to NFL success.

Dec 17, 2025 · Joe Paterno was an American collegiate gridiron football coach, who, as head coach at Pennsylvania State University (1966–2011), was the winningest major-college coach in the history of …

Jan 22, 2012 · STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Joe Paterno, the longtime Penn State coach who won more games than anyone in major college football but was fired amid a child sex abuse scandal that …

Mar 6, 2025 · Paterno’s wife, Sue, and their five children all graduated from Penn State. Paterno’s son, Jay, was an assistant football coach at Penn State from 1995 to January 2012.

Mar 6, 2025 · Read CNN’s Fast Facts about the life of the late Joe Paterno, longtime head football coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions.

On Nov. 9, 2011, after 46 seasons as Penn State’s head football coach and a record 409 victories, Joe Paterno was fired along with the university president, Graham Spanier, over their handling...

Oct 17, 2019 · Joe Paterno, the Hall of Fame head coach who led the Penn State football program for 45 years, died Sunday, Jan. 22, at the age of 85, after a battle with lung cancer.

Joseph Vincent "Joe" Paterno (pronounced /pəˈtɜrnoʊ/; December 21, 1926 — January 22, 2012) was an American college football coach. He was the head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions for 46 …

Dec 31, 2025 · Legendary Penn State coach Joe Paterno, NCAA Division I's all-time winningest coach, has died at the age of 85. A member of the Penn State coaching staff for 62 seasons, Paterno …