Too Much Partying for Penn State Football Team?: Paterno to Make Players Clean Stadium After Games

Paterno to Make Players Clean Stadium

Penn State University football coach Joe Paterno has devised the most evil of all punishments to not only discipline the four players who were arrested following a fight at an apartment, but the entire team.

Paterno will require the team to do community service and, yes, clean the entire stadium's trash after every home game this coming season. Penn State has in the past offered to pay the university's club sports teams to clean the stadium. This year, the football players will clean it, and donate their money earned to the club sports teams.

"Obviously, I'm probably going to have to keep one or two of them out of a game and drop one or two on the depth chart. And then whatever (university officials) think they have to do, they do. I want to do something where the whole team kind of says, 'Hey, we're all wrong, let's go,'" the Associated Press reported Paterno told alumni Tuesday.

As reported by the Associated Press, police said football player Anthony Scirrotto and his girlfriend got into an altercation with three men on a street in State College and then followed them to an apartment building. He called his brother and some friends to get them to join him, but they weren't immediately let into the party, police said.

Scirrotto then called a fellow football player and met up with a group of players who also arrived at the party, authorities said. A group of men, including all six players, then rushed into the apartment and a melee ensued, police said.

Some of the victims were punched, one was hit in the head with a beer bottle and knocked unconscious, and another was punched and kicked in the face, authorities said. At least five students were struck during the fight and at least two of those needed treatment at a hospital, authorities said.