Tales from Penn State Football

Tales from Penn State Football
softcover
Ken Rappoport

Description
In Tales from Penn State Football author Ken Rappoport puts readers on the 50-yard line and sometimes in a seat on the bench or a stall in the locker room with one of college football’s most successful programs ever. From the first team in the 1880s to Joe Paterno’s celebrated teams of the 20th century, Penn State’s most entertaining and legendary football stories are chronicled. The early pioneers could hardly envision the future popularity of the game, where crowds of more than 100,000 fill Beaver Stadium to see Paterno’s nationally-ranked powers play in the second-largest stadium in America. There have been plenty of colorful stories and characters in State College to fill a book like Tales from Penn State Football. There was a coach who held up a Rose Bowl game over a violent argument and another who credited a mule for his success. There was a player who impersonated the legendary Jim Thorpe and another nicknamed “Riverboat Richie” due to his gambling instincts on the football field (they usually paid off). For many of the book’s stories Rappoport went right to the source. In an earlier interview at the Nittany Lion Inn Paterno talked about his famous “Grand Experiment.” At about the same time, Rip Engle discussed his most treasured moments at Penn State, helping fill Tales from Penn State Football with a collection of the greatest Nittany Lion stories ever told.
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