Team arrives as campus farewell for Paterno begins

9:19 AM, Jan 24, 2012   |    comments
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - Members of the Penn State football team and the athletic department have arrived at the campus faith center, where a viewing is being held Tuesday for Joe Paterno.

The players wore dark suits and filed out of three blue Penn State buses - the same buses that once carried Paterno and the team to games on fall Saturdays. Son Scott Paterno was seen coming in and out of the center.

Paterno died Sunday and the public viewing is to begin in the afternoon.

The 85-year-old Paterno was the winningest coach in major college football. He disclosed his lung cancer diagnosis in November, days after he was fired in the aftermath of the child sex-abuse charges against former assistant Jerry Sandusky.

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