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...good can a college football team be and still not rank No. 1 in the nation? Let Penn State count the ways. It has had 27 consecutive winning seasons and 40 straight years at .500 or better (both modern N.C.A.A. records). Its coach of 13 years, Joe Paterno, boasts the highest winning percentage (.833) of anyone still sending in signals after ten years of major college football warfare, including three unbeaten and untied seasons capped by victories in a major bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No. 1 and Still Climbing | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

From such unfamiliar heights, Coach Paterno and his Nittany Lions are now preparing for a Sugar Bowl showdown with the Southeastern Conference champion. Paterno juggled bowl bids for a week because he wanted to make sure that Penn State would face its highest-ranked opponent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No. 1 and Still Climbing | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

Kush amassed a 159-39-1 composite record at Arizaona State, the highest win percentage next to that of Penn State's Joe Paterno. Paterno also nixed the Eagles' offer, which paved the way for Restic...

Author: By Robert I. W. sidorsky, | Title: Eagles May Sign Restic To Serve as Head Coach | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

This time around, though, Paterno and Co. face, not the usual Top Ten power, but the Fighting Bears of Baylor University in the Cotton Bowl...

Author: By Robert T. Garrettt and Michael K. Savit, S | Title: Lining Up for the Post-Season Bowls | 12/14/1974 | See Source »

...Paterno lost 13 starters from his 11-0 team of 1973, but still managed to find enough talent to fill almost half of the All-East team. Baylor coach Grant Teaff--named UPI Coach of the Year last week--came two years ago to a school that had won 14 games in seven years, and has clearly produced a miracle for the Baptists, who enter the tilt with an 8-3 record...

Author: By Robert T. Garrettt and Michael K. Savit, S | Title: Lining Up for the Post-Season Bowls | 12/14/1974 | See Source »

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