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Author : Mervin D. Hyman
Publisher : Macmillan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780020290001
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Joe Paterno written by Mervin D. Hyman and published by Macmillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joe Posnanski
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 145165751X
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Paterno written by Joe Posnanski and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From America’s premier sportswriter, the definitive, #1 New York Times bestselling biography of Joe Paterno. Joe Posnanski’s biography of the late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno follows in the tradition of works by Richard Ben Cramer on Joe DiMaggio and David Maraniss on Vince Lombardi. Having gained unprecedented access to Paterno, as well as the coach’s personal notes and files, Posnanski spent the last two years of Paterno’s life covering the coach, on (and off) the field and through the scandal that ended Paterno’s legendary career. Joe Posnanski, who in 2012 was named the Best Sportswriter in America by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Hall of Fame, was with Paterno and his family as a horrific national scandal unfolded and Paterno was fired. Within three months, Paterno died of lung cancer, a tragic end to a life that was epic, influential, and operatic. Paterno is the fullest description we will ever have of the man’s character and career. In this honest and surprising portrait, Joe Posnanski brings new insight and understanding to one of the most controversial figures in America.
Author : Frank Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101216719
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Lion in Autumn written by Frank Fitzpatrick and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-09-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fascinating. . . . One of the best books ever written on the rise and fall of a great college football coach." —Allen Barra, San Francisco Chronicle The Lion in Autumn takes readers inside Penn State’s storied football program as legendary coach Joe Paterno fights to turn his struggling team into a winner once again. In more than a half century at Penn State, Paterno has won more bowl games (21) than any other coach and more games (354) than all but one, en route to two national championships and five perfect seasons. But in the new millennium hard times arrived in Happy Valley. His Nittany Lions had losing seasons in four of five years, dropping sixteen of twenty-three games in 2003 and 2004. There were boos at Beaver Stadium and increasing calls for the aging Paterno to step down. Award-winning sportswriter Frank Fitzpatrick followed JoePa through the 2004 season as the beloved coach struggled to save himself and his storied program. Fitzpatrick trailed Paterno from fund-raisers to the spring practices to the sidelines, detailing how the coach endured another losing season while building a team that would win the Orange Bowl and compete for the national championship in 2005. Interweaving stories from past seasons into the narrative, Fitzpatrick fleshes out the legend of Paterno.
Author : Mervin D. Hyman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Joe Paterno, "Football My Way" written by Mervin D. Hyman and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael O'Brien
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 9781558537156
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (371 download)
Download or read book No Ordinary Joe written by Michael O'Brien and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 1999-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in his 33rd year as head football coach at Penn State University, Joe Paterno has been called the Voice of Ethics, a breath of fresh air, a modern Renaissance man, and a football genius. This is an updated version of his critically acclaimed biography. Illustrations.
Author : Jay Paterno
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 163319339X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (331 download)
Download or read book Paterno Legacy written by Jay Paterno and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memorial to one of the greatest coaches in college football history written by the man who knew him better than anyone: his oldest son and coaching protégé This biography of Joe Paterno by his son Jay is an honest and touching look at the life and legacy of a beloved coaching legend. Jay Paterno paints a full picture of his father's life and career as well as documenting that almost none of the horrific crimes that came to light in 2012 took place at Penn State. Jay Paterno clear-headedly confronts the events that happened with cool facts and with passion, demonstrating that this was just one more case of an innocent man convicted by the media for a crime in which he had no part. Noting that the scandal itself was but a short moment in Joe Paterno's life and legacy, the book focuses on Paterno's greatness as a father and grandfather, his actions as a miraculous coach to his players, and his skillful dealings with his assistant coaches. Available in paperback for the first time, this updated edition provides readers Jay Paterno's perspective on the latest developments at Penn State.
Author : George Paterno
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Joe Paterno written by George Paterno and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 1997 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Paterno, the brother of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno and colour analyst for Penn State football, tells the story about his legendary brother. This book is a combination of two novels -- the story about an icon and national legend evoking his life as a young man prior to beginning his journey to fame. The story describes the role effect of Joe's immediate family, his relationship with them, and the importance they played in his future development. The second part of the story deals with Joe's career after he joined Rip Engle's staff and his subsequent marriage. All of the people who helped and contributed to his legend are brought into focus for the first time. In essence, the book is about two brothers, close but different.
Author : Editors of Sports Illustrated
Publisher : Sports Illustrated
ISBN 13 : 9781603201988
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Sports Illustrated Joe Paterno written by Editors of Sports Illustrated and published by Sports Illustrated. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consider for a moment that Harry Truman was President when Joe Paterno came to Penn State. More than six decades later, the bespectacled, gravelly-throated football icon had won more games than any major college coach while guiding teams to five undefeated seasons and two national titles. Although that tenure came to a sad end in November 2011, followed by Paterno's death from complications of lung cancer two months later, his achievements and the way he went about realizing them will endure. He was the rare coach who championed values and demanded academic excellence from his players, remaining as straightforward and constant through the years as the Lions' blue-and-white uniforms. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's retrospective of Joe Paterno is the definitive account of a remarkable career, collecting the best stories and photographs from the pages of SI to chronicle the story of this rare coach and the program he built. The man known simply as JoePa assumed a unique place in our collective sporting culture. This 208-page collection is a lasting remembrance of the history that he made at Penn State.
Author : Bill Moushey
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006220114X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)
Download or read book Game Over written by Bill Moushey and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive and explosive book on the worst scandal in the history of sports, Game Over investigates the devastating sexual abuse case that brought down Joe Paterno and forever tarnished the name of Penn State. In this incisive work of investigative journalism, Bill Moushey and Bob Dvorchak, along with Lisa Pulitzer, go behind the headlines, official statements, and court transcripts to tell the full story of the sexual abuse scandal that has rocked the nation—a tale of power, privilege, money, and politics that leads from the football building on the Penn State campus to the administration’s boardroom to the highest echelons of the state capital and beyond. Eye-opening and fast-paced, Game Over exposes the lies, willful ignorance, and cover-ups that may have allowed a sexual predator to use his position and status to prey on vulnerable young victims for years. Its explosive new discoveries shatter the illustrious image of “Happy Valley”—State College, Pennsylvania, home to one of the nation’s most successful and highly lucrative college football programs. Moushey, Dvorchak, and Pulitzer craft a story that is as compelling as it is unsettling. Probing beneath the male-dominated football culture, they share the untold stories of the mothers and wives, the sisters and daughters associated with the scandal. They trace the rise and fall of hometown hero and national icon Joe Paterno—the Nittany Lion’s legendary head coach with the most wins in the history of college football, including two national championship titles—juxtaposing Penn State’s success and glory with the hidden anguish of former coach Jerry Sandusky’s accusers. As it details the rise and fall of the individuals associated with the scandal, it also makes clear the larger implications for the university, its vaunted football program, the community, and all of us. An exploration of the messy morality of pride and loyalty, silence and bearing witness, Game Over will leave readers pondering their own values and their beliefs in right and wrong.
Author : Bobby Bowden
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439195986
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Called to Coach written by Bobby Bowden and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this New York Times bestseller, legendary coach Bobby Bowden gives readers an inside look at the path that led him to become one of college football’s most successful coaches. Coach Bobby Bowden was an icon of college football who ran his legendary, top-ranking program with a trademark southern charm. Here, Bowden gives fans and readers the behind-the-scenes story of his 55-year career and the path that helped him become one of college football's most successful coaches and patriarch of the sport's most famous coaching family. In this book, Bowden shares never-before-published details of the moments and events that have defined his life, including: * The tragic death of his grandson and son-in-law in a 2004 automobile accident. * The details of his retirement as FSU's coach at the end of the 2009 season.
Author : Lou Prato
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1623683335
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (236 download)
Download or read book We Are Penn State written by Lou Prato and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No college football program has ever had to deal with the obstacles, hostility, and challenges encountered by the players and coaches of the 2012 Penn State Nittany Lions, and this book is an account of that unforgettable season in which the team rebounded from a disillusioning 0-2 start to surprise everyone and finish with an 8-4 record, third best in the Big Ten Conference. The turmoil at Penn State began in early November 2011 with the shocking arrest of retired assistant coach Jerry Sandusky for multiple charges of sexual child abuse, and within days legendary head coach Joe Paterno was fired in what would be termed the biggest scandal in college football history. By the end of January, Paterno was dead from lung cancer and a new head coach without any Penn State connections, Bill O’Brien, began putting together his staff while finishing up his job as offensive coordinator of the Super Bowl bound New England Patriots. We Are Penn State tells the story of how this team overcame unprecedented NCAA sanctions, including a four-year bowl ban and the loss of 45 scholarships over the same period, the transfer of several of its star players, and overwhelming predictions that the 2012 season would be a disaster to put together a successful season and restore some dignity to what was once considered one of the elite programs in college football.
Author : John U. Bacon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476706441
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book Fourth and Long written by John U. Bacon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author and Michigan football expert John Back, an analysis of the state of college football: Why we love the game, what is at risk, and the fight to save it. In search of the sport’s old ideals amid the roaring flood of hypocrisy and greed, bestselling author John U. Bacon embedded himself in four college football programs—Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan, and Northwestern—and captured the oldest, biggest, most storied league, the Big Ten, at its tipping point. He sat in as coaches dissected game film, he ate dinner at training tables, and he listened in locker rooms. He talked with tailgating fans and college presidents, and he spent months in the company of the gifted young athletes who play the game. Fourth and Long reveals intimate scenes behind closed doors, from a team’s angry face-off with their athletic director to a defensive lineman acing his master’s exams in theoretical math. It captures the private moment when coach Urban Meyer earned the devotion of Ohio State’s Buckeyes on their way to a perfect season. It shows Michigan’s athletic department endangering the very traditions that distinguish the college game from all others. And it re-creates the euphoria of the Northwestern Wildcats winning their first bowl game in decades. Most unforgettably, Fourth and Long finds what the national media missed in the ugly aftermath of Penn State’s tragic scandal: the unheralded story of players who joined forces with Coach Bill O’Brien to save the university’s treasured program—and with it, a piece of the game’s soul. This is the work of a writer in love with an old game—a game he sees at the precipice. Bacon’s deep knowledge of sports history and his sensitivity to the tribal subcultures of the college game power this elegy to a beloved and endangered American institution.
Author : Bill Contz
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1633198545
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (331 download)
Download or read book When the Lions Roared written by Bill Contz and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1982 Penn State national championship team was not only one of Joe Paterno’s best, it was one of the best teams college football has ever seen. In When the Lions Roared, Bill Contz, one of the squad's offensive tackles, details that special season and the experience of playing for a legendary coach. Featuring dozens of interviews with former players, this book provides anecdotes from the epic contests of that season while also proving statistically why this Nittany Lions team stands up against all of the talented teams that came before and after. Also featuring a foreword and reflections by Todd Blackledge, Penn State's 1982 starting quarterback, this is an essential read for Nittany Lions faithful.
Author : Scott Brown
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1623681332
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (236 download)
Download or read book Miracle in the Making written by Scott Brown and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Taliaferro had it all: smarts, an easy-going personality, and incomparable athletic ability. None of that seemed to matter, however, on that fateful September day when his father was given startling news: Do not expect your son to walk. Ever. Since that numbing day, Taliaferro, the Penn State freshman cornerback who was paralyzed after he tackled an Ohio State running back, has defied the odds. Before he had spinal-fusion surgery, he made a vow to his mother: "Mom, I'm not going out like this." Three months later, he walked out of a Philadelphia hospital on crutches, determined to complete his amazing recovery, making the name "Adam Taliaferro" synonymous with courage and perseverance.
Author : Mickey Bergstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781879441453
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (414 download)
Download or read book Penn State Sports Stories and More written by Mickey Bergstein and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy master storyteller Mickey Bergstein's up close and personal observations of the athletes and coaches that made Penn State great. Bergstein collects memories from more than 20 years as color commentator at all PSU sports events. As you travel from the 1930s to the 1990s, sit back and let Total Recall Mickey regale you with tales from the hopps, the Lady Lions, and of course, Paterno's gridiron greats.
Author : Martin Ford
Publisher : Triumph Books (IL)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Penn State Football Button Book written by Martin Ford and published by Triumph Books (IL). This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Penn State Football Button Book celebrates the coaching legacy of Joe Paterno and the glorious history of Nittany Lion football during the Paterno era. It does so, however, in a style unlike any other football book ever written -- through the use of the complete collection of "game day" booster buttons produced by Citizens Bank (and its predecessor bank sponsors) to commemorate each Penn State football game played over the past 32 years. The Penn State Football Button Book evokes exciting memories of the Paterno era using button images and unique and fun commentary rather than traditional game summaries. Book jacket.
Author : Jerry Sandusky
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781582613574
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Touched written by Jerry Sandusky and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Touched is the story of Jerry Sandusky's life in his own words. From his childhood to his professional career, this book goes behind the scenes to explore the successes and challenges that Jerry Sandusky has faced in life, both on and off the football field. After graduating from Penn State in 1966, Sandusky went on to coach collegiate football for 34 years. Thirty-two of those years were with Penn State, as the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach under Joe Paterno, until his retirement in 1999. The book also explores Sandusky's involvement in children's charities, including the founding of his charity, "Second Mile."
