Joe Paterno
Joe Paterno was the head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions from 1966 through 2011. He was commonly referred to as “JoePa”.
He is considered the winningest coach in college football, holding the record for the most victories by an NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) football coach with 409 wins.
A legend among football fans, Paterno’s reputation was severely tarnished in 2011, when he was involved in a huge, widely-publicized scandal at Penn State regarding an assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky’s child sex charges.
