- Due to the Penn State sex scandal, the NCAA vacated Paterno's wins from 1998 through 2011.
- Was Penn State head football coach from 1966 until midway through the 2011 season.
- All five of his children are Penn State graduates.
- Is among the all-time leaders in wins by a major college coach. As of December 2005, he was second only to Bobby Bowden.
- Named The Associated Press college football coach of the year (20 December 2005)
- After years of refusing to make his salary public, his salary was revealed to be $500,000 per year in November 2007.
- Penn State head football coach (1966-2011).
- Due to the Penn State sex scandal, on July 12, 2012, Mark Parker the president of Nike Inc. said he is changing the name of the Joe Paterno Child Development Center, a child care facility at the company's headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon.
- On July 22, 2012, Penn State announced it had removed the statue and "store[d] it in a secure location, citing that it had become a "source of division and an obstacle to healing." The accompanying plaques and quotations were removed as well.
- Father of Jay Paterno.
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