Word: paterno
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There are some coaches who would not have agreed with Yovicsin's procedure. Joe Paterno, in his book Football My Way, discusses how many coaches would handle such a situation: "Alabama's Bear Bryant and Jim Owens of the University of Washington are of the hard-nosed school. They use what they call the 'challenge' system to stimulate competition. At Washington, for instance, if a second-teamer thinks he is better than the player ranked ahead of him by the coaches, he can challenge him to a contest. Usually it is brutal, sometimes bloody, one-on-one block and tackle...
About 15 candidates will be interviewed by the committee because, as Pittenger put it, "you can't weigh a person by mail," Before beginning serious deliberations, the committee sought advice from several nationally known coaches, including Joe Paterno of Penn State, Frank Broyles of Arkansas, Davy Nelson of Delaware, and Paul Brown of the Cincinnati Bengals...
...Lions' pride was wounded again when bookies made them 3½-point undercats in the Orange Bowl against the high-powered Missouri Tigers (9-1). That was all Penn State and the Lions' voluble ringmaster, Joe Paterno, needed. "We're No. 1 as far as I'm concerned," said Paterno, and his boys made a sound case for his claim. They intercepted Tiger Quarterback Terry McMillan five times. When Missouri Coach Dan Devine sent in another pitcher, Chuck Roper, the Penn State secondary responded by intercepting two more throws for a record total of seven. Penn...