I did so because I thrived on testing the limits of others, and I enjoyed taking chances in danger. But these intriguing sentences are the introduction to a chapter about water balloon fights. Sandusky and several pals, including Lucas, were twice arrested for their overenthusiasm. Art Sandusky interceded, and the young men — already college students — were given a reprimand and a fine.
Most people in Washington labored in steel mills, coal mines and glass factories. Evie Sandusky worked with glass; Art was a conductor for a trolley company. In the afternoons, home from work, they operated their own ice cream stand, which stayed open until 10 or 11 p. When that business folded, its offices were bought by Judge James I. Brownson, who donated the building to a community group. This became the Brownson House, which, though still open as a community center, nevertheless seems an artifact to a much earlier America.
It was home to kindergarten classes, pool tournaments and dance classes. Boxers worked out in a makeshift ring in the stuffy basement. News clippings were pinned on a corkboard. A photograph from showed year-old Jerry Sandusky kneeling like a mascot with the Brownson Golden Gloves team lined up behind him. Art Sandusky was recruited to run the Brownson House because of his stature in the neighborhood.
Youth football was played on what is now called Art Sandusky Field, boys as young as 8 learning what it means to block and tackle in a part of the country particularly obsessed with the game.
Adults packed the bleachers most every night. Evie Sandusky sold them refreshments. These days, most of the factories in Tylerdale are gone, though the neighborhood looks much the same. Narrow two-story houses, with porches out front and aluminum siding on the exteriors, sit on small patches of land. He stayed away from the girls. He was more about sports, every sport. Sandusky was not only a star high school football player; he was a high-scoring guard at basketball and a catcher on the baseball team.
However successful at sports, he was not a big talker. Art taught him never to boast. But he was smitten when he met Dottie Gross, his future wife, at a picnic in Washington. He was a senior at Penn State but still too timid to ask her out. He and Sandusky have been friends for three decades. Richeal ate meals at the Sandusky home in State College, sitting in the dining room at a big picnic table with pews for seats. The Sanduskys were unable to conceive on their own but they adopted six children, who are now adults.
In , Sandusky approached him about co-writing the autobiography. The coach had put some thoughts on paper and gave his friend the name of a possible publisher who turned out to be uninterested.
The project was resurrected in , the year Sandusky retired from Penn State, ostensibly because he realized he would never become the head coach and wanted to spend more time with the Second Mile. Our goal is to inform the public exactly what happened, at what point in time. The compiled information has been organized in a timeline fashion, making it clear when everything took place, and showing where Penn State football is now.
Jerry Sandusky was born on January 26, in Washington, Pennsylvania. Sandusky played on the Penn State football team as a defensive end from to In , Paterno took Sandusky under his wing where he served as a graduate assistant. For the next two years he was an assistant basketball and track coach at Juniata College and offensive line coach at Boston University.
In , Sandusky returned to Penn State and became a part of the Penn State football community as defensive coordinator until his retirement in He received an Angels in Adoption award in but was later revoked from it because of the scandal. After graduating from Brown University in , Paterno united with his college coach Rip Engle at Penn State University serving as the assistant coach of the football team.
After serving under Engle for 16 years, in Joe Paterno finally became the head coach of the football team. At this moment the Board of Trustees should not spend a single minute discussing my status. Unfortunately, later that evening the Board of Trustees decided to release Joe of his coaching duties immediately. The Penn State community was shattered. The University immediately began trying to pick up the pieces to make everything right.
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