A legendary coach, a struggling team, and a storm of controversy: An award-  winning sportswriter takes you inside a tumultuous season of Penn State football, in the   bestselling tradition of A Season on the Brink.    In his fifty years of coaching football at Penn State, Joe Paterno has become one of the   most popular figures in American sports. Only one other coach has won more football   games than Paterno; his team has won more bowl games than any other; and he does it all   the way it was meant to be done, with his players succeeding in the classroom as well as   on the field and in the pro ranks. Along the way, Paterno has transformed a once obscure   agricultural college into a huge research university in the Big Ten, whose endowment   now exceeds $1 billion, tens of millions of which "JoePa" has personally helped to raise.   But lately the tide seems to have turned in Happy Valley. Since 2000, Paterno’s Nittany   Lions have lost more games than they’ve won, and accusations of off-the-field crimes   have tarnished his program’s reputation.    Award-winning sports reporter Frank Fitzgerald followed Joe Paterno and his Nittany   Lions through the 2004 season, from fundraisers in State College to the sidelines at   Beaver Stadium. The Lion in Autumn delivers the complete story of this   frustrating, tormenting, and ultimately exhilarating turning-point season and the history   that led up to it. This is the chronicle of fifty phenomenal years—including the dynasties   of undefeated and national championship teams that came before—and a riveting fight to   reclaim a legacy.

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