His name is “The Nittany Lion”…period. Penn State Nittany Lions Good Year Cotton Bowl Classic Champions 2019 shirt His origin is from the beginning of PSU in the 1855 and the University’s proximity to the Nittany Mountain. The Mountain prominently overlooks the school grounds from the east and was once the home of a thriving Mountain Lion population…long-since gone. The University adopted this graceful and powerful cat as its mascot. In 2011, Jerry Sandusky, who was a football coach at Penn State, was convicted of abusing minors sexually. Paterno was fired for covering the scandal up. It was alleged that a student told him back in 1976 of the abuse. And in 2002, a graduate student told Paterno that he’d seen Sandusky abusing a player. Paterno reported it but was fired in 2011 after he said he was going to retire.
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