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Joe Paterno

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Joe Paterno (Joseph Vincent Paterno) , 1926–, American football coach, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. A former quarterback at Brown Univ., he became the head coach in 1966 at Pennsylvania State Univ., winning two national championships (1982, 1986). In 2001 he surpassed Bear Bryant 's record for most games won, placing Paterno first among Division I-A coaches in college football history. Widely admired for his loyalty to Penn State and for his emphasis on education as well as on sport, he was fired in 2011 after public revelations concerning sexual abuse of children by a former football coach at Penn State.

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