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Penn State is also among the leaders nationwide in terms
of players adva-
ncing to the professional level. As of 2006, 29 former Penn State players and coaches were on
the rosters of NFL teams, the tenth-highest such placement rate in the country. Penn State has been represented
in at least one of the teams participating in the Super Bowl 37 of the 41 times the championship game has been
played.
A recent report indicated that Penn State's football program ranks 12th nationwide in terms of economic
con-
tributions to each program's univer-
sity, athletic department, conference, and community. The report,
based on ticket sales, sponsorships, football program expenses, athletic departm-
ent expenses (non-football),
shared conference profits, and county reven-
ue figures during home football games, revealed that the
Nittany Lions are presently worth roughly US$63 million.
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Celebrates 100th birthday:
The Penn State Nittany Lion is turning 100 years old today.
On April 20, 1904, Harrison Denning "Joe" Mason, a freshman on the Pennsylvania State College baseball team,
fabricated the creatu-
re that would later become Penn State's mascot. The transformation came by adding the
word "Nittany," after the mountain near campus, to the name of the mountain lion, an animal that roamed
Pennsylvania until it became extinct in the 1880s. |
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