NEWS & NOTES
FOOTBALL
Settlement
restores
Paterno's
wins record
Joe Paterno, Penn State and hundreds
of former Nittany Lion football players
are getting their victories back.
The 112 wins that were vacated as part
of the consent decree that Penn State
entered into with the NCAA in 2012 were
restored in a settlement agreement be-
tween Pennsylvania state Sen. Jake Cor-
man and college athletics' governing
body.
Corman and state Treasurer Rob Mc-
Cord had sued over the dispersal of the
$60 million fine that the NCAA levied
against Penn State in the wake of the
Sandusky scandal. The settlement, which
was announced Jan. 16, calls for those
funds to be distributed in Pennsylvania,
as Corman and McCord had sought. The
remaining punitive sanctions against
Penn State have been repealed.
Of the 112 victories that had been va-
cated, 111 belonged to Paterno. (The oth-
er belonged to Tom Bradley, who served
as interim coach following Paterno's dis-
missal in November 2011.) The restora-
tion of the victories Penn State amassed
between 1998 and 2011 raises Paterno's
total to 409 and makes him once again
the winningest coach in major-college
football history. He had relinquished that
title to Florida State's Bobby Bowden,
who finished his career with 377.
In a prepared statement, the Paterno
RECORD HOLDER
Joe and Sue Pater-
no embrace fol-
lowing Penn
State's victory over
Northwestern in
2010, which gave
the longtime
coach his 400th
career win. That
victory, and 111 oth-
ers, were restored
as part of the set-
tlement. Photo by
Annemarie Mountz
