College football lost one of its legends on Sunday morning when former Penn State coach Joe Paterno lost his battle with lung cancer at the age of 85.
He coached 62 seasons in State College, the final 46 of those as head coach of the Nittany Lions. While his record of 409 wins will likely never come close to being matched, that is not his greatest contribution.
The millions of dollars he donated to Penn State helped make it one of the most prominent public universities in the country. His greatest accomplishment, however, is the impact he made on college football and the men who both played and coached for and against him.
Many of those men would go on to make their own impact on college football, some at Penn State, and some elsewhere. Here are ten of those men whose success in the sport can be traced to Paterno.
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