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Paterno enters Hall of Fame one year after vote Penn State's Joe Paterno, the second-winningest coach in the history of major college football, finally entered the Hall of Fame on Tuesday night, a year and 20 minutes late.
He was voted into the Hall of Fame in 2006, but his induction had to be put on hold because this time last year he was recovering from a broken leg suffered when two players ran into him during a game.
The rest of the class of 13 new hall of famers, including 1984 Heisman Trophy winner Doug Flutie and former Oregon and Vikings star Ahmad Rashad, were voted in earlier this year and inducted at the banquet at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan.
On Monday night, Paterno was feted at another party that drew 400 attendees, many of them former players for the coach. Paterno found out at that reception that two of his friends, Patrick and Candace Malloy, of Key Largo, Fla., donated $5 million to Penn State to endow the position Paterno has occupied for 42 seasons. It's the largest donation ever given to Penn State athletics.
• Texas center Dallas Griffin won the Draddy Award as the top scholar-athlete in college football. Griffin, a junior, was honored at the Hall of Fame induction.
• Ousted UCLA football coach Karl Dorrell has decided not to coach the Bruins when they play BYU in the Las Vegas Bowl. Defensive coordinator DeWayne Walker will serve as interim coach for the Dec. 22 game. "I felt that my situation would take the focus away from our players and their efforts and that's the last thing I would want to do," Dorrell said.
• Trent Miles, an assistant on Tyrone Willingham's staffs at Stanford, Notre Dame and Washington the past seven years, was chosen as the new football coach at Indiana State. The Sycamores have won only one of their 33 games the past three years.
• Ohio State defensive coordinator Jim Heacock, whose unit held opponents without a first down on nearly half of their possessions, won the Broyles Award, given annually to the nation's top assistant coach. The Buckeyes surrendered just under 11 points per game.
