The Great Story of Penn State Football 2025 Update: From the beginning of football to the James Franklin era Paperback – May 30, 2025

The book is written for those of us who love Penn State Football and who love a never ending great football story.The book begins before the beginning of football in 1855 when Penn State was founded. Before you know it, in 1869, the book tells the story of the very first football game. From there, the progression leads, to Penn State's first football game in 1881. You will learn that Penn State played only one game in 1881, beating Lewisburg by a score of 9-0. Though they kicked the ball some, they did not field teams from 1882 through 1886 and when they came back, they had no coach.For years, the team operated at the good will of senior players. The book proceeds on to the first Penn State Football coach George Hoskins in 1892. After this, you will see that it was not too long afterwards that Penn State began to be mentored by coaches who lasted a lot of years. Finally. the Lions were guided by the great immortal Penn State coaches—Hugo Bezdek, Bob Higgins, Rip Engle, and the greatest coach ever--Joe Paterno—to the current season with Coach James Franklin. If you like Penn State football, you will love this book. It is all Penn State.This book captures the great moments in Penn State Football. It takes the reader through stories about each of Penn State's 17 coaches and their teams to the great stories about 127 seasons worth of great games (1320 games). The book often stops in time and talks about a particular player such as Rosey Grier, Lenny Moore, John Cappelletti, Franco Harris, Chuck Fusina, Kerry Collins, LaVar Arrington, Shane Conlan, Curt Warner Jack Ham, Ted Kwalick, Jimmy Cefalo, Todd Blackledge, and Lydell Mitchell and Saquon Barkley.You will not be able to put this book down. Read more