[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 169 (Saturday, December 18, 2010)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2200]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


     IN HONOR OF COACH JOE PATERNO AND HIS 400TH WIN AT PENN STATE

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                         HON. PATRICK J. MURPHY

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, December 17, 2010

  Mr. PATRICK J. MURPHY of Pennsylvania. Madam Speaker, I rise today to 
honor a great American, a great coach, a leader among men, who is an 
icon of college football and is one of Penn State's greatest treasures. 
Joe has just recently won his 400th college victory. More importantly, 
Joe's greatest accomplishments are not found on the football field, but 
in the young men that he has prepared for the game of life. I ask that 
this tribute penned in honor of him by Albert Caswell be placed in the 
Record.

                        Pa . . . Terno Instincts

     Upon, these fields of green . . .
     Have but come, year after year . . . such young men who dare 
           to dream . . .
     Specimens, of such great strength and speed . . . of might, 
           almost like supermen who lead . . .
     Who one day must walk off this great stage, with what now to 
           carry them through their days?
     And what do they now have so left, when their days of glory 
           are gone to them to bless?
     For sixty so odd years, as have so here . . .
     As have such young men, so appeared . . .
     From boys to men, at Penn State to be so endeared . . .
     To be blessed, by Joe Pa to be near . . .
     Upon, these fields of green so here . . .
     For one man, one coach . . . has stood on principle, oh so 
           very clear . . .
     To help build lives, build futures . . . as has he so strived 
           each year . . .
     While, watching over them . . . from boys to men . . .
     Like a Shepherd, watching over his flock . . . time, and time 
           again . . .
     Giving them hopes and dreams, discipline and honor to each 
           and every one it seems . . .
     Like a Father . . . Like a Son . . . as ``with each student, 
           this new family has run . . .
     Leading, guiding, coaching, teaching, loving each and every 
           one!
     With but his Pa Terno Instincts and dreams . . .
     As Joe Pa, has guided them from their teens . . . Showing 
           them all how life is won!
     Molding them all, into such fine men . . . all upon these 
           fields of green . . .
     His gift to all, a future . . . way beyond these fields of 
           dreams . . .
     Education first! As now we see Joe Pa's fine worth . . .
     As this great love affair, brings such tears to eyes . . . as 
           Joe Pa's Terno instincts, give rise!
     For Joe, is a giver not a taker . . . bringing boys to men, 
           to new heights as they awake here . . .
     For few will run in NFL's sun, so what do they so have left 
           when all is done?
     A future! Over four hundred career wins are great . . .
     But, Joe Pa spells victory . . . with one word, ``Graduate!''
     With but his heart of lion, for all of them, Joe Pa will 
           never stop trying!
     Oh, upon these fields of green . . . to mold boys to men, to 
           live their dreams . . .
     But to have thousands and thousands, of loving sons . . .
     No greater blessing, or victory to be won . . .
     With but Joe's Pa... terno Instincts . . . he has willed, all 
           on these fields of green . . .
     For upon these fields of green, Joe . . . Pa is a winner who 
           has won . . .
     But, In The Game of Life . . . Joe Pa is but a Champion this 
           one!

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