plus lawmakers vote to pass a bill that has animal welfare activists celebrating. and later on, college football crowns a new champion. highlights from the battle of the unbeaten. you re watching cnn newsroom.
college coach at penn state. 16 years later joe paterno took over. it is a battle of the unbeaten. and within a couple of seasons he lead his team to the first of five unbeaten seasons. in more than four decades as head coach, joe paterno racked up an unprecedented collection of trophies and records. he had more wins than any other coach in division one football. none more important than his two national championships in 1982 and 1986. he is the only coach to have won the rose bowl, the cotton bowl, the sugar bowl and the orange bowl. his first losing season didn t come until 1988. but win or lose, paterno s attitude was the same jie. we are going to work hard and try to be a really good football team. we will play them as tough as we know how to play them. he never let the success get to his head. he lived in the same modest house for most of his career. joe paterno and his wife raised five children here.
that school and its community more than any other human being. to the rest of the world, joe pa represented an rear that slipped away long ago. i m not a guy for themes, i m not a guy for goal-setting. that s never been my style. shepard: joe paterno kept it simple. his program s not motto success with honor it reflected the attention he gave to the academic success of his players. he called his campaign the combined academics and athletics a grand experiment. straightforward style may have something to do with the great depression upbringing. he was born in brooklyn in 1926. he said the cost of tuition almost forced him to drop out of prep school. but he went on to play football at brown and planned to attend law school but instead took an opportunity to join his college coach rip ingle at penn state. 16 years later joe paterno took over. a rousing flash with the nittany lions of penn state. a battle of the unbeaten.