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Joe Paterno was a head coach of Penn State Nittany Lions football serving from the retirement of Rip Engle after the 1965 season until he was fired on November 9 2011 in the wake of the Penn State sex abuse scandal. His teams played their home games at Beaver Stadium in University Park Pennsylvania. Penn State played as an independent through the 1992 season. In 1993 the Nittany Lions started playing a Big Ten Conference football schedule.