The cancer was diagnosed during a follow-up visit for a bronchial illness. 18 that his father was being treated for lung cancer. Jay Paterno, who served as his father's quarterbacks coach, was crying. Paterno's sons, Scott and Jay, arrived separately at the house late Sunday morning. And, indeed, the street was quiet on a cold winter day. The officers said the family had asked there be no public gathering outside the house, still decorated with a Christmas wreath, so Paterno's relatives could grieve privately. Two police officers were stationed to block traffic on the street where Paterno's modest ranch home stands next to a local park. "He will go down as the greatest football coach in the history of the game," Ohio State coach Urban Meyer said after his former team, the Florida Gators, beat Penn State 37-24 in the 2011 Outback Bowl. More than 250 of the players he coached went on to the NFL. The man known as "JoePa" won 409 games and took the Nittany Lions to 37 bowl games and two national championships. Paterno built his program on the credo "Success with Honor," and he found both. Paterno's son had said in November that his father had been diagnosed with a treatable form of lung cancer during a follow-up visit for a bronchial illness. The hospital said Paterno was surrounded by family members, who have requested privacy.
Sunday of "metastatic small cell carcinoma of the lung." Metastatic indicates an illness that has spread from one part of the body to an unrelated area. Mount Nittany Medical Center said in a statement that Paterno died at 9:25 a.m. The Pennsylvania hospital where Paterno died confirmed the cause of death as a spreading lung cancer. He was a man devoted to his family, his university, his players and his community." His ambitions were far reaching, but he never believed he had to leave this Happy Valley to achieve them. "He fought hard until the end, stayed positive, thought only of others and constantly reminded everyone of how blessed his life had been. "He died as he lived," the statement said.
His family released a statement Sunday morning to announce his death: "His loss leaves a void in our lives that will never be filled." Joe Paterno, the longtime Penn State coach who won more games than anyone in major college football but was fired amid a child sex abuse scandal that scarred his reputation for winning with integrity, died Sunday of lung cancer.
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