In two weeks, Penn State will honor the late Joe Paterno on the 50th anniversary of his first game as football coach.
The team announced Thursday a promotions schedule for this season, including a commemoration for Paterno during the Sept. 17 game against Temple at Beaver Stadium. The Penn State athletics website said the event will honor "Joe Paterno's first game as the head football coach at Penn State _ September 17, 1966."
A Penn State spokesman said the school had no further comments beyond the release.
Paterno coached the Nittany Lions until Nov. 9, 2011, when Penn State fired him in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. Paterno died Jan. 22, 2012, of lung cancer at the age of 85.
Just this summer, more than 200 former Penn State football players petitioned the school for the return of Paterno's statue and a testimony claimed Paterno knew of Sandusky's abuse as early as 1976.
This will be the school's first official recognition of the coach since his firing.
