Joe Paterno Net Worth, spouse, young children, awards, movies

Key facts:

Joe Paterno recorded 409 wins as the head football coach at Pennsylvania State University, making him the most victorious coach in NCAA football history.

Paterno led the Penn State Nittany Lions to two national championships in 1982 and 1986 and also won multiple bowl games, including the Orange Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, Citrus Bowl, Outback Bowl, and Rose Bowl.

Paterno was involved in the Penn State child sexual abuse scandal, where it was determined that he had concealed information relating to the predatory behavior of his colleague Jerry Sandusky.

In the aftermath of the scandal, Paterno's name was removed from the Joe Paterno Child Development Center at Nike's headquarters and the Joe Paterno statue outside Penn State's Beaver Stadium was removed.

Joe Paterno and his wife donated more than $4 million to various departments and colleges within Penn State University and helped raise over $13.5 million for the expansion of Pattee Library, later renamed Paterno Library.

Basic Information About Joe Paterno

Category	Athletes › Coaches
Professions	Coach, American football player, American Football coach
Net worth	$10,000,000
Date of birth	1926-12-21
Place of birth	Brooklyn
Date of death	2012-01-22 (aged 85)
Nationality	United States of America
Gender	Male
Social Media	↗︎ Wikipedia

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1/ Filename: joe-paterno-runs-out-with-team-crop-s476Hn9T.jpg

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Source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Joe_Paterno_runs_out_with_team_crop.jpg
Original Source: JoePa Enters Beaver Stadium
Author: Ben Stanfield from Washington, DC, USA
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
Date taken: 1 September 2007, 12:03

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Source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paterno_memorial.jpg

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Source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PaternoTemple.png
Original Source: Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Leoboudv using CommonsHelper.
Author: Quintin3265 at English Wikipedia
Date taken: 11 November 2011 (original upload date)

4/ Filename: pattee-mall-psu-72zNDL04.jpg

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Source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pattee_Mall_PSU.jpg
Original Source: Own work
Author: Nathaniel C. Sheetz
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license.
Date taken: 6 May 2005

5/ Filename: joe-paterno-wishes-good-luck-to-opponent-i7669r7j.jpg

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Source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Joe_Paterno_wishes_good_luck_to_opponent.jpg
Original Source: JoePa Wishes FIU Good Luck
Author: Ben Stanfield from Washington, DC, USA
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
Date taken: 1 September 2007, 11:34

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