Did you know Joe Paterno (and John Heisman) went to Brown?
November 8th, 2011 at 1:38 pm by Ted Nesi under Nesi's Notes
Paterno, right, with Coach Engle and co-captain Scott
The legendary and suddenly embattled coach was a member of Brown’s Class of 1950, the NYT reports:
Paterno came to Penn State in 1950 as a 23-year-old assistant coach making $3,600 a year. He planned to stay for two seasons, to pay off his student loans from Brown University, where he earned a degree in English literature.
Joseph V. Paterno ’50 was quarterback and co-captain of Brown’s 1949 football squad, “considered to be Brown’s finest,” which finished the year with an 8-1 record – one short of their goal, “9 for 9 in ’49.” They finished the season “with a spectacular victory over Colgate, coming from behind to score three touchdowns in the last four minutes for a final score of 41-26.”
Paterno received the Brown Alumni Association’s Williams Rogers Award in 1998 – which “honors an alumnus or alumna whose service to society illustrates the words of the Brown Charter: living a life of ‘usefulness and reputation’” – and delivered one of the university’s annual Commencement Forums in 2000. In 1996, one of his fellow alums donated $1 million to endow the Williams/Paterno Chair in Football at Brown.
Paterno isn’t Brown’s only famous football alum. John Heisman of Heisman Trophy fame was in the Class of 1891. But apparently Heisman didn’t do anything on the gridiron here in Providence. “There were no [football] games between 1886 and 1889, when Brown might have made use of a student named John Heisman 1891, who stayed for only two years,” the Encyclopedia Brunoniana says.
Update: One of my wise readers – a Brown alum himself – points out the 1915 football team appeared “in what is referred to as the first annual Rose Bowl game,” a factoid backed up by Encyclopedia Brunoniana. Who knew?
(photo: Brown University)
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Figures another scumbag that went to a RI school. This guy did not ethically handle the child abuse situtation. As a professional, you are to report any suspicion or if you see any child abuse to a child welfare hotline.
The University is not the law. I think this man is a greedy SOB and wanted to milk $$$$$$ as long as he could from the University–all at the expense of letting a man destroy youth’s innocence.
The predator, Paterno and all that admitted seeing and knowing of the abuse going on and not reporting it to proper authorities should also face criminal charges.
From ABCnews.com
By KEVIN DOLAK, COLLEEN CURRY and DAN HARRIS (@danbharris)
Nov. 10, 2011
“Thousands of enraged Penn State students tore through the streets of State College, Pa., overnight to protest the firing of Joe Paterno after the longtime head football coach was removed from his position effective immediately.
Penn State’s board of trustees dismissed the legendary coach despite his statement earlier in the day that he would retire at the end of the season.
The trustees also fired university president Graham Spanier Wednesday night. Both men were booted over their handling of a sex abuse scandal involving young boys and a former assistant football coach.”
—I guess Penn State students are OK with children being sexually abused and raped. They care more about the game of football and who coaches it. First gays are being accepted, looks like pedophilia is next.
The world is truly becoming a living hell!
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