Penn State scandal: team gets back to football - but lose

first football game in 46 years without Joe Paterno as coach ended with the defeat of Penn State at the end of the week rocked by a scandal of child sexual abuse

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Penn State college football team played its first game Saturday in nearly half a century, without its venerable head coach, one day after school officials are committed to finding the truth behind the sexual abuse scandal that has cost the job of the coach and shook one of the major American universities.

The university has been shaken to its foundations by the scandal of child sexual abuse involving former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. It took legendary coach Joe Paterno his work. Fans and players wanted to show their love for their school and Paterno, while showing concern for the victims of abuse.

Sandusky, once considered the heir to Paterno is obvious, is accused of sexually abusing eight children under 10 in the space of 15 years, with many of the alleged assaults that occur on owned by Penn State. His attorney maintains he is innocent Sandusky.

Two university officials are charged with perjury and President Graham Spanier and Paterno were fired for not doing enough to act in a 2002 report Sandusky sodomized a young man in the showers of the complex football on campus.

The case has riveted

the U.S., where college football is both a passion and a lucrative part of the economy in many communities, and Penn State was seen by many as a program not tainted by corruption during the term of Paterno.

The scandal would be bad enough for a university that prides itself on its integrity. It was Paterno, winner in the major college football, is much worse.

instead of running in the field, the team of Penn State went arm in arm through a corridor formed by the band and former players from Pennsylvania State University. Beaver Stadium was awash with blue color associated with the prevention of abuse to the flags that accompany the group. More than $ 22,000 was raised for charities that support the prevention of child abuse.

And usually noisy atmosphere before the game was replaced by a minute of silence for the victims. Penn State players and rival Nebraska met at midfield before the game, kneeling beside a good time in a state of tranquility.

"It was one of the saddest weeks in the history of Penn State and my heart goes to those who have been victims. I share your anger and sadness, "said the new president of the school Rod Erickson in a video being played in the first quarter." Although we can not return to business as usual, our university has move forward. We are a community. "

was the first time in 46 years that Paterno led the Nittany Lions, but his presence was still very present. His son, Jay Paterno, the quarterbacks coach at the rate of margin.

"We had a better week of our lives, of course," Major General Jay Paterno low profile, said after the game. "The kind of world from the inside, but I think that the children were strong."

asked what his parents said in a letter delivered earlier in the day, the child's throat, "How am I proud of them, and, Papa, I would have been here. "

• the cameras turned away as tears began to flow.

after falling behind 17-0, No. 12 Penn State rallied with two touchdowns in the second half, sending the largest crowd of 107,903 in the year in Beaver Stadium into a frenzy . However, the Nittany Lions came short in his last two albums, and Nebraska took a 17-14 victory.

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