Joe Paterno, a Penn State Football coaching legend also known as "JoePa" has passed away today, January 22, 2012, at age 85 due to complications relating to cancer that he had been diagnosed with in November 2011.
Mr. Paterno was a driving force behind the Penn State football team as the head coach of the team from 1966 until 2011. JoePa let the team through more than thirty Bowl games winning eighteen of them and holds an NCAA record for the most showings at Bowl games with a total of thirty seven throughout his career.
JoePa was well known for his philanthropic contributions where he and his wife donated over $4 million dollars back to the university for which he worked, Penn State. He was also instrumental in raising over $13 million dollars for an expansion to the University library which was subsequently named, "Paterno Library".
With all of the work that JoePa did with Penn State, he was a larger than life legend within the Penn State community and will be sorely missed. Rest in peace, JoePa.
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Wikipedia, the free encyclopia. Retrieved from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Paterno
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