Selected Bibliography
Asbell, Bernard, and Joe Paterno. Paterno: By the Book. Random House, 1989.
Bergstein, Mickey. Living Among Lions. Trafford Publishing, 2007.
———. Penn State Sports Stories and More. RB Books, 1998.
Centre Daily Times Staff. 40 Years of the Joe Paterno Era at Penn State. Canada Hockey LLC, 2006.
Denlinger, Ken. For the Glory. St. Martin’s Griffin, 1994.
Fitzpatrick, Frank. The Lion in Autumn. Gotham Books, 2005.
———. Pride of the Lions. Triumph Books, 2011.
Hagdu, David. The Ten-Cent Plague. Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2008.
Halvonik, Steve and John Cappelletti. Cappelletti: Penn State’s Iron Horse. Ethic Sports, 1998.
Hyman, Jordan and Ken Rappaport. Playing for JoePa. Sports Publishing LLC, 2007.
Hyman, Mervin D. and Gordon S. White. Joe Paterno: Football My Way. Collier Books, 1978.
Kriegel, Mark. Namath: A Biography. Viking, 2004.
Maraniss, David. When Pride Still Mattered. Simon & Schuster, 1999.
Missanelli, M. G. The Perfect Season. The Pennslvania State University Press, 2007.
Monti, Ralph. I Remember Brooklyn. Birch Lane Press, 1991.
Moore, Lenny and Jeffrey Jay Ellish. All Things Being Equal: The Autobiography of Lenny Moore. Sports Publishing LLC, 2005.
Newcombe, Jack. Six Days to Saturday. Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1974.
O’Brien, Michael. No Ordinary Joe. Rutledge Hill Press, 1998.
Paterno, George. Joe Paterno: The Coach from Byzantium. Sports Publishing LLC, 2001.
Pencek, Matthew and David Pencek. The Great Book of Penn State Sports Lists. Running Press, 2011.
Peterson, James A. and Dennis Booher. Joe Paterno: In Search of Excellence. Leisure Press, 1983.
Pittman, Charlie and Tony Pittman. Playing for Paterno: A Father’s and Son’s Recollections of Playing for JoePa. Triumph Books, 2007.
Prato, Lou. The Penn State Football Encyclopedia. Sports Publishing Inc., 1998.
Prato, Lou and Scott Brown. What It Means to Be a Nittany Lion. Triumph Books, 2006.
Riley, Ridge. Road to Number One: A Personal Chronicle of Penn State Football. Doubleday, 1977.
Rudel, Neil and Cory Giger. They Know Joe. Altoona Mirror, 2010.
Sandusky, Jerry and Kip Richeal. Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story. Sports Publishing Inc., 2000.
Werley, Kenneth. Joe Paterno, Penn State and College Football—What You Never Knew. University of New Haven Press, 2001.
Acknowledgments
This book was the most challenging and emotional project of my life. Because of this, I am determined to keep these acknowledgments short; if I try to thank everyone who helped and guided me, I will double the word count. I hope I have personally thanked everyone who helped me, inspired me, and stood up for me while I was working on this book. If I have not, I promise I will soon. I will never forget your friendship.
I must begin by thanking Joe Paterno. He did not want me to write a book about him, but he was unfailingly kind and generous to me, even after the worst had happened. The only thing he ever asked of me, even at the end, was “Write the truth.” I have done my best to live up to that mission. I thank the entire Paterno family, beginning with Sue Paterno, for their guidance, patience, and honesty. Diana, Mary Kay, David, Jay, and Scott, along with their spouses and children and close friends, gave of themselves for this book, even as their own lives were thrown into turmoil, and I will never have enough words of gratitude for them.
I want to thank the hundreds of players, friends, coworkers, fans, critics, and rivals who took the time to communicate their feelings about Joe Paterno. Many of their names are included in the book, but unfortunately at least as many of their names are not. Joe Paterno lived a big life. There are two other books, at least, on the cutting-room floor.
Too many friends helped for me to list them all, so I will name five: Mike Vaccaro, for pushing me through the darkest hours; Tommy Tomlinson and Alix Felsing, for always being there for us; Michael Schur, for a frank conversation in a bizarre hotel lobby that I clung to often; and Bill James, who was my steadying influence in the storm. I must also take a moment to thank a hero of mine, David Maraniss, whom I did not know before I started this project, but whose wisdom guided me more often than I can say.
No acknowledgments section would be complete without a nod to the agent, and I am lucky enough to have the best one in the world, Sloan Harris at ICM. I do not have words strong enough to thank my editor, Jonathan Karp, who never wavered. From Simon & Schuster, I also want to thank assistant editor Nick Greene, whose blunt suggestions were of great help, along with art director Jackie Seow, marketing specialist Nina Pajak, associate publisher Richard Rhorer, publicists Anne Tate and Kelly Welsh, copy editor Judith Hoover, designer Joy O’Meara, production editor Jonathan Evans, production manager John Wahler, assistant managing editor Gina DiMascia and managing editor Irene Kheradi. I would also like to thank Terry McDonnell and the wonderful people at Sports Illustrated for their support, as well as Larry Burke and Steve Madden at my exciting new project, Sports on Earth.
I was fortunate to have Matt Brown as my research assistant, fact-checker, sounding board, and Penn State history buff. I could not have done this book without him. Someday, after Matt writes his fifth bestseller, his role in this book will make for a great trivia question.
Finally, I thank my family: first my parents, Frances and Steven Posnanski, who instilled in me everything that is good, and also my brothers and my in-laws. This book affected all of them. Then there are the three most important people in my life. I’m one of the lucky ones; my wife, Margo, is also my best editor and my best friend. Our daughters, Elizabeth and Katie, were so patient and supportive and did their homework throughout, often without complaining. Every now and again, though, they would ask, “Is the book written yet?” We had promised them a puppy when I finished writing. Well, girls, the book is written.
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Index
Abbey, Don, 6–8, 30, 83, 84, 113, 366–72
Abbey, Mr., 368
Abbey, Mrs., 367
ABC, 120, 200
ABC.com, 330
Academic Bowl, 327
academic subjects, coaching compared with, 1
adopted children, 251, 333
Aeneas, 32, 34–35
Aeneid (Virgil), 32, 34–35, 52, 298
African Americans, 58, 118, 125–28, 207–8, 216, 264
A-gap, 218
Air Force (football team), 151
Alabama (football team), 83, 110, 143, 151, 210
black players of, 126
Penn State’s losses to, 145, 166–68, 171, 176, 178, 188, 196–97, 201
police escort for, 162–63
Alamo Bowl, 259
alcoholism, 7
Alda, Alan, 346
Alexander the Great, 54
Allen, Woody, 22
All in the Family (TV show), 357
All-Ivy League team, 50
All-Metropolitan squad, 54
All Things Being Equal (Moore), 208
Allyn, Stanley C., 44
Alpha Delta Phi fraternity party, 48–49
alumni, 45, 71, 143, 157, 158, 304
Alvarez, Barry, 112
American Football League, 136
American Hotel, 70
anal intercourse, 276, 329, 334
Angleball, 46
antihero, age of, ix
anti-Semitism, 105
Araton, Harvey, 309
“Archie Bunker,” 357
Arizona (football team), 257
Arkansas (football team), 117–21, 123
Arkansas (state), 119–20
Army, U.S., 37–42, 51, 283
Army (football team), 85–86
army fatigues, 215, 216, 219
Arnold, Everett “Busy,” 43–45
Arrington, LaVar, 257, 258, 259
Ashley, Walker Lee, 195, 200
Asimov, Isaac, 22
assault charges, 264, 290, 294
Associated Press, 142, 167
poll of, 117, 118
Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl, 117
Atlanta Constitution, 281
atomic bomb, 37, 38
Auburn, 290
Austin, Tex., 308
autographs, 132, 158, 359
Avalon, N.J., 187
Avon-by-the-Sea, N.J., 70
Bahr, Chris, 150
Bahr, Matt, 150
Bahr, Mr., 150
Baiorunos, Jack, 150
Baker, Chris, 315
Baltimore Colts, 68
barbers, 25
barns, 53
bars, 93–94
Bartek, Lou, 183, 193
baseball, 44, 92, 93, 228, 311
1943 World Series, 181–82
basketball, 137, 143, 214, 227, 346
Paterno’s playing of, 24–25, 28, 54
women’s, 189–90
Battaglia, Mark, 191, 198
Bauer, Charles, 212
Bauer, Mrs., 212
Bauer, Trey, 210–16, 219, 220, 222–23, 224
background of, 211–12
1994 team and, 228
on Paterno, 219
on White, 218
Baugh, Kevin, 214
Beaver Stadium, 8–9, 111, 150, 195–96, 278, 294, 311, 348
press conference at, 336–37
Beban, Gary, 86
Becker, Gary, 32–33
Bedenk, Joe, 60
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 112
Benson, Brad, 172
Bergen Record, 280
Bermingham, Thomas, 33–34, 35, 178
Bermuda, 71
Bernstein, Ralph, 174
Big Ten Conference, 117, 289, 296, 309, 310, 346
baseball and, 311
Penn State’s start in, 226–27, 229, 279
Big Ten Media Days, 324–25
Big Ten Network, 311
Bingham, Walter, 46
blackballers, 105
Blackledge, Todd, 188, 195, 196, 200–201, 217
blacks, 58, 118, 125–28, 207–8, 216, 264
Blades, Brian, 222
Blanchard, Kevin, 364–65
Blatty, William Peter, 17, 19–20, 24
Bermingham’s reaching out to, 34
Blockbuster Bowl, 284–85
blockers, 213, 368–69
award for, 6–7
blue lines, 194, 252
Blue Ridge College, 46
Boeheim, Jim, 346
Bootlegger’s Boy (Switzer), 175
Boston Braves, 137
Boston Bruins, 86
Boston College, 68, 367, 368
Boston University, 51, 54
Boswell, Tom, 2
Bowden, Bobby, 108, 292, 309
bowl games, 95, 117–23, 226, 279
Bowling Green, 13
Bowman, Kirk, 196
Bracken, Ron, 251–52
Bradley, Jim, 150, 353
Bradley, Tom, 103, 214, 261, 302, 342, 353
Brady, Kyle, 228
Brady, Tom, 259
Bratton, Melvin, 223
“break contain,” 91
Brennan, Christine, 335
Brigham Young, 199
Bronson, John, 362–63
Brooklyn, 4, 10, 19–35, 42, 47, 53, 286, 336
Flatbush in, 22, 27, 72
glamorizing and idealizing of, 22
name-calling in, 48
Paterno’s moving around in, 23–24, 27
Paterno’s return to, 176–78
streets of, 24, 85, 109
Brooklyn Dodgers, 42, 92, 249
Brooklyn Prep, 19, 29–35, 283
football at, 29–32, 38, 44, 45, 54, 108
Brown, Courtney, 257
Brown, Jerome, 216, 223
Brown, Paul, 53
Browning, Robert, 164, 298
Brown University, 10, 47–50, 57, 65, 106, 354
football at, 29, 30, 38, 44, 45, 49–52, 54, 68, 85, 145, 283
Paterno’s scholarship to, 38, 45
snobbery and exclusion at, 48–49, 105, 140
Brown University Archives, 54
Brown v. Board of Education, 126
Bruce, Arland, 258
Bruins, see Boston Bruins
Bruno, John, 215–16, 223
Bryant, Ida, 161
Bryant, Monroe, 161
Bryant, Paul “Bear,” 110, 161–68, 188, 191, 196, 201
contracts and, 83–84
death of, 202, 244, 293
Paterno compared with, 88, 109, 143, 161, 163, 264, 265, 278, 279, 292
retirement of, 202, 244, 252, 293
Buckeyes, see Ohio State Buckeyes
Burkhart, Chuck, 101–2, 116, 125, 211
Bush, George H. W., 20, 248
Butler, Deon, 308
Buttle, Greg, 195
Cafiero, Eugene, 27
Cafiero, Florence, see Paterno, Florence Cafiero
Cafiero, Mr. (Florence’s father), 27
calling, 51–52, 169
Campbell, Bob, 101, 102
Cannon, Billy, 68
Cape Cod, 140
Capital One Bowl, 290
Cappelletti, Anne, 135, 136, 149, 153
Cappelletti, Joey, 136, 151–54
Cappelletti, John, Jr., 90, 139, 148–49, 151–53, 199, 217, 288
recruiting of, 135–36
touchdowns of, 151, 152
Cappelletti, John, Sr., 135, 149, 153
Cardinal Hayes, 31
Cardinals, 182
Carr, Lloyd, 308–9
cars, 138, 143
Carter, Jimmy, 12
Carter, Ki-Jana, 217, 228
Casey, Rashard, 264
Catholics, 25, 32, 33, 47, 71, 182
Cato the Elder, 155
CBS, 195
celebrity, 75, 113, 143
Central Michigan, 308
Centre Country District Attorney, 253
Centre County Child and Youth Services, 253–54
Centre (County) Daily Times, 252
character, of football players, 229
cheating, 174, 176
recruiting and, 104–5
“cheating” (“fudging”) to one side, 62
chess, four-dimensional, 190
Chicago, Ill., 324–25
Chicago Tribune, 148, 165
child molestation, 328–29, 346
Conlin and, 108
see also sexual abuse scandal
children:
adopted, 251, 333
foster, 251
The Second Mile and, 228, 248, 250–54, 275
child services, 275
Christianity, 250–51
Christian Science Monitor, 142
Churchill, Winston, 54
Church of the Brethren, 47
Cincinnati (football team), 210, 308
Citadel, The, 72
civil rights, civil rights movement, 126, 264
Clark, Bruce, 164
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg, 11
classy, being, 242
Cleveland, Ohio, 111
Cleveland Browns, 53
Clinton, Bill, 2
Coach (Dunnavant), 162
coaches, coaching, 7, 25, 44–47, 60–73, 81
black, 208
at Brooklyn Prep, 31, 44, 45
as calling, 51–52
of George Paterno, 141, 283
greatest thrill of, 195
and handling of freshmen, 206–7, 266–68, 308
Jay Paterno as, 233–34, 291, 297, 308, 342
of McQueary, 270–71
Marrone and, 359–60, 361
overbearing alumni and, 45
Paterno challenged by, 93
Paterno first hired as, 50–54
Paterno first noticed as, 68–69
Paterno’s last year in, 323–24, 326–28, 335, 339–40
Paterno’s mistakes as, 88
Paterno’s obsession with, 133, 190, 244, 306
Paterno’s philosophy of, 229, 279
Paterno’s refusal to retire from, 243–45, 252–53, 255–56, 281, 292–94, 296–97, 302–3, 304, 309–11, 327
Paterno’s role in, 295–96
Paterno’s shuffling of staff and, 297
Paterno’s speech to (Feb. 5, 1993), 1–2
Paterno’s style of, 196–97
player archetype of, 216–17
in practices vs. games, 194–95
as professors, 52, 65
staff meetings of, 237–239, 249, 254, 296
trips by, 174, 270
coal mines, 47
Cobbs, Duffy, 220
Cockerham, Billy, 258
Coke breaks, 184–85
cold war, 39
Coles, Joel, 197–98
Colgate, 50
College Football Hall of Fame, 46, 68, 104
Collins, Kerry, 217, 228
Colorado (football team), 127, 172
Columbus, Christopher, 243
comic books, 43–44
confusion, 92, 130
Congress, U.S., 297–98, 328
Congressional Coalition on Adoption, 251
Conlan, Dan, 214