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Bahr, Mr.,
150

Baiorunos, Jack,
150

Baker, Chris,
315

Baltimore Colts,
68

barbers,
25

barns,
53

bars,
93
–94

Bartek, Lou,
183
,
193

baseball,
44
,
92
,
93
,
228
,
311

1943 World Series,
181
–82

basketball,
137
,
143
,
214
,
227
,
346

Paterno’s playing of,
24
–25,
28
,
54

women’s,
189
–90

Battaglia, Mark,
191
,
198

Bauer, Charles,
212

Bauer, Mrs.,
212

Bauer, Trey,
210
–16,
219
,
220
,
222
–23,
224

background of,
211
–12

1994 team and,
228

on Paterno,
219

on White,
218

Baugh, Kevin,
214

Beaver Stadium,
8
–9,
111
,
150
,
195
–96,
278
,
294
,
311
,
348

press conference at,
336
–37

Beban, Gary,
86

Becker, Gary,
32
–33

Bedenk, Joe,
60

Beethoven, Ludwig van,
112

Benson, Brad,
172

Bergen Record,
280

Bermingham, Thomas,
33
–34,
35
,
178

Bermuda,
71

Bernstein, Ralph,
174

Big Ten Conference,
117
,
289
,
296
,
309
,
310
,
346

baseball and,
311

Penn State’s start in,
226
–27,
229
,
279

Big Ten Media Days,
324
–25

Big Ten Network,
311

Bingham, Walter,
46

blackballers,
105

Blackledge, Todd,
188
,
195
,
196
,
200
–201,
217

blacks,
58
,
118
,
125
–28,
207
–8,
216
,
264

Blades, Brian,
222

Blanchard, Kevin,
364
–65

Blatty, William Peter,
17
,
19
–20,
24

Bermingham’s reaching out to,
34

Blockbuster Bowl,
284
–85

blockers,
213
,
368
–69

award for,
6
–7

blue lines,
194
,
252

Blue Ridge College,
46

Boeheim, Jim,
346

Bootlegger’s Boy
(Switzer),
175

Boston Braves,
137

Boston Bruins,
86

Boston College,
68
,
367
,
368

Boston University,
51
,
54

Boswell, Tom,
2

Bowden, Bobby,
108
,
292
,
309

bowl games,
95
,
117
–23,
226
,
279

Bowling Green,
13

Bowman, Kirk,
196

Bracken, Ron,
251
–52

Bradley, Jim,
150
,
353

Bradley, Tom,
103
,
214
,
261
,
302
,
342
,
353

Brady, Kyle,
228

Brady, Tom,
259

Bratton, Melvin,
223

“break contain,”
91

Brennan, Christine,
335

Brigham Young,
199

Bronson, John,
362
–63

Brooklyn,
4
,
10
,
19
–35,
42
,
47
,
53
,
286
,
336

Flatbush in,
22
,
27
,
72

glamorizing and idealizing of,
22

name-calling in,
48

Paterno’s moving around in,
23
–24,
27

Paterno’s return to,
176
–78

streets of,
24
,
85
,
109

Brooklyn Dodgers,
42
,
92
,
249

Brooklyn Prep,
19
,
29
–35,
283

football at,
29
–32,
38
,
44
,
45
,
54
,
108

Brown, Courtney,
257

Brown, Jerome,
216
,
223

Brown, Paul,
53

Browning, Robert,
164
,
298

Brown University,
10
,
47
–50,
57
,
65
,
106
,
354

football at,
29
,
30
,
38
,
44
,
45
,
49
–52,
54
,
68
,
85
,
145
,
283

Paterno’s scholarship to,
38
,
45

snobbery and exclusion at,
48
–49,
105
,
140

Brown University Archives,
54

Brown v. Board of Education,
126

Bruce, Arland,
258

Bruins,
see
Boston Bruins

Bruno, John,
215
–16,
223

Bryant, Ida,
161

Bryant, Monroe,
161

Bryant, Paul “Bear,”
110
,
161
–68,
188
,
191
,
196
,
201

contracts and,
83
–84

death of,
202
,
244
,
293

Paterno compared with,
88
,
109
,
143
,
161
,
163
,
264
,
265
,
278
,
279
,
292

retirement of,
202
,
244
,
252
,
293

Buckeyes,
see
Ohio State Buckeyes

Burkhart, Chuck,
101
–2,
116
,
125
,
211

Bush, George H. W.,
20
,
248

Butler, Deon,
308

Buttle, Greg,
195

Cafiero, Eugene,
27

Cafiero, Florence,
see
Paterno, Florence Cafiero

Cafiero, Mr. (Florence’s father),
27

calling,
51
–52,
169

Campbell, Bob,
101
,
102

Cannon, Billy,
68

Cape Cod,
140

Capital One Bowl,
290

Cappelletti, Anne,
135
,
136
,
149
,
153

Cappelletti, Joey,
136
,
151
–54

Cappelletti, John, Jr.,
90
,
139
,
148
–49,
151
–53,
199
,
217
,
288

recruiting of,
135
–36

touchdowns of,
151
,
152

Cappelletti, John, Sr.,
135
,
149
,
153

Cardinal Hayes,
31

Cardinals,
182

Carr, Lloyd,
308
–9

cars,
138
,
143

Carter, Jimmy,
12

Carter, Ki-Jana,
217
,
228

Casey, Rashard,
264

Catholics,
25
,
32
,
33
,
47
,
71
,
182

Cato the Elder,
155

CBS,
195

celebrity,
75
,
113
,
143

Central Michigan,
308

Centre Country District Attorney,
253

Centre County Child and Youth Services,
253
–54

Centre (County) Daily Times,
252

character, of football players,
229

cheating,
174
,
176

recruiting and,
104
–5

“cheating” (“fudging”) to one side,
62

chess, four-dimensional,
190

Chicago, Ill.,
324
–25

Chicago Tribune,
148
,
165

child molestation,
328
–29,
346

Conlin and,
108

see also
sexual abuse scandal

children:

adopted,
251
,
333

foster,
251

The Second Mile and,
228
,
248
,
250
–54,
275

child services,
275

Christianity,
250
–51

Christian Science Monitor,
142

Churchill, Winston,
54

Church of the Brethren,
47

Cincinnati (football team),
210
,
308

Citadel, The,
72

civil rights, civil rights movement,
126
,
264

Clark, Bruce,
164

Clark, Walter Van Tilburg,
11

classy, being,
242

Cleveland, Ohio,
111

Cleveland Browns,
53

Clinton, Bill,
2

Coach
(Dunnavant),
162

coaches, coaching,
7
,
25
,
44
–47,
60
–73,
81

black,
208

at Brooklyn Prep,
31
,
44
,
45

as calling,
51
–52

of George Paterno,
141
,
283

greatest thrill of,
195

and handling of freshmen,
206
–7,
266
–68,
308

Jay Paterno as,
233
–34,
291
,
297
,
308
,
342

of McQueary,
270
–71

Marrone and,
359
–60,
361

overbearing alumni and,
45

Paterno challenged by,
93

Paterno first hired as,
50
–54

Paterno first noticed as,
68
–69

Paterno’s last year in,
323
–24,
326
–28,
335
,
339
–40

Paterno’s mistakes as,
88

Paterno’s obsession with,
133
,
190
,
244
,
306

Paterno’s philosophy of,
229
,
279

Paterno’s refusal to retire from,
243
–45,
252
–53,
255
–56,
281
,
292
–94,
296
–97,
302
–3,
304
,
309
–11,
327

Paterno’s role in,
295
–96

Paterno’s shuffling of staff and,
297

Paterno’s speech to (Feb. 5, 1993),
1
–2

Paterno’s style of,
196
–97

player archetype of,
216
–17

in practices vs. games,
194
–95

as professors,
52
,
65

staff meetings of,
237
–239,
249
,
254
,
296

trips by,
174
,
270

coal mines,
47

Cobbs, Duffy,
220

Cockerham, Billy,
258

Coke breaks,
184
–85

cold war,
39

Coles, Joel,
197
–98

Colgate,
50

College Football Hall of Fame,
46
,
68
,
104

Collins, Kerry,
217
,
228

Colorado (football team),
127
,
172

Columbus, Christopher,
243

comic books,
43
–44

confusion,
92
,
130

Congress, U.S.,
297
–98,
328

Congressional Coalition on Adoption,
251

Conlan, Dan,
214

Conlan, Shane,
92
,
213
–15,
217
,
221
,
222
,
223

Conlin, Bill,
30
,
108
,
292

Conlin, Chris,
358

Conlin, Keith,
358
–59

Connecticut (football team),
233

Connor, Dan,
299

consistency,
2
,
182
–84

conspiracy theories,
253

contracts,
83
–84,
143
,
341

contradictions,
102

Cooper, Mike,
125
,
127
–28

Corbett, Tom,
334
,
340

Correal, Chuck,
167

corruption,
78
,
111
,
138
,
146
,
312

Costas, Bob,
221

Cotton Bowl,
117
,
118
,
121
,
122

country clubs,
231
–32

Cousins, Kirk,
324
–25

Crittenden, John,
152

Cruise, Tom,
8

Culpepper, Charles,
108

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