A crowd of hundreds of students who gathered on the front lawn of embattled Penn State football coach Joe Paterno's home swelled to nearly 1,500 and confronted riot-gear-clad police on campus and along Beaver Avenue Tuesday night.
The students shouted, "We are Penn State!" and "Joe Paterno!" "Hell no Joe won't go!" and a few calls of "Fire Spanier!" outside Old Main shortly after 10 p.m., then along Beaver Avenue. About 20 officers marched down the street to get the students to move back to the sidewalks around 11 p.m. The crowd then returned to Old Main, the university administration building, and continued to swell in size.
Campus police and Pennsylvania state troopers were on scene. There were no arrests as of late Tuesday night, and the crowd was dissipating by midnight.Stefano DiPietro first heard about the rally on Facebook around 2 p.m. Fellow Penn State students were heading to Joe Paterno's house at dusk to show support for the coach when he returned from practice.Amos Alonzo Stagg’s name being attached to the Big Ten football championship trophy may have to be reevaluated if Joe Paterno is found to be “complicit” in the Jerry Sandusky scandal according to Stagg's great grandson.
The hardware for the first Big Ten championship game next month -- the Stagg-Paterno Championship Trophy – has yet to be presented. But Robert Stagg told CBSSports.com on Tuesday that he is concerned about the family’s association if “more disturbing evidence,” is found in the case that has captured national headlines.
“If he [Paterno] has been complicit in this, he’s got to step down,” said Stagg, a 54-year-old father working in sales in Grand Rapids, Mich. “Unfortunately that would be the case.”
Campus police and Pennsylvania state troopers were on scene. There were no arrests as of late Tuesday night, and the crowd was dissipating by midnight.Stefano DiPietro first heard about the rally on Facebook around 2 p.m. Fellow Penn State students were heading to Joe Paterno's house at dusk to show support for the coach when he returned from practice.Amos Alonzo Stagg’s name being attached to the Big Ten football championship trophy may have to be reevaluated if Joe Paterno is found to be “complicit” in the Jerry Sandusky scandal according to Stagg's great grandson.
The hardware for the first Big Ten championship game next month -- the Stagg-Paterno Championship Trophy – has yet to be presented. But Robert Stagg told CBSSports.com on Tuesday that he is concerned about the family’s association if “more disturbing evidence,” is found in the case that has captured national headlines.
“If he [Paterno] has been complicit in this, he’s got to step down,” said Stagg, a 54-year-old father working in sales in Grand Rapids, Mich. “Unfortunately that would be the case.”
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