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Former Players Join Fight Against the NCAA

More than 325 former Penn State Football players and coaches, spanning six decades, have officially joined the fight against the NCAA.

Todd Blackledge, Kerry Collins, and Paul Posluszny are just some of the hundreds of names expressing their support for the Paterno family lawsuit against the NCAA. The lawsuit, looking to overturn the sanctions against Penn State, states: “Defendants breached their contractual obligations and violated their duties of good faith and fair dealing, intentionally and tortiously interfered with Plaintiffs’ contractual relations,and defamed and commercially disparaged Plaintiffs.” The lawsuit also alleges coercive methods by the NCAA, and attacks the Freeh Report.

Brian Masella took the role of spokesman for the players, and released this statement:

“Joe Paterno and the entire Penn State football program have been used as scapegoats in this horrible tragedy. When the NCAA neglected to conduct their own investigation, and used the flawed Freeh Report as the judge and jury, they further prevented an opportunity to get to the real truth, and in turn, punished a generation of Penn State players, students, and supporters who had nothing whatsoever to do with Jerry Sandusky.”

Former coaches Dick Anderson and Tom Bradley, as well as Penn State’s former NCAA Compliance Director John Bove, have also expressed their support for the lawsuit.

Here’s a list of all former players who attached their name to that statement:

1950s
Robert Belus
Frank Della Penna
Charle King
Ro Markiewicz
Fran “Bucky” Paolone
Don Ryan
John Jack Urban

1960s
Dick Anderson
Steve Bezna
Bob Capretto
Jack Curry
Alan Delmonaco
Gerry Farkas
Chuck Franzetta
Ed Gabirel
Tony Gebicki
James Graham
Warren Hartenstine
Michael Irwin
Robert Kline
George Kulka
John Kulka
Jon Lang
Ed Lenda
Lincoln Lippincott
Jim Litterelle
Thomas Mairs
James McCormick
Thomas McGrath
Dave McNaughton
Donald Miller
Hank Oppermann
Bill Rettig
Dave Rowe
Ted Sebastianelli
Gary Shaffer
Steve Smear
Dave Truitt
Frank Waresak
Chris Weber

1970s
Walt Addie
Russell Albert
Kurt Allerman
Ferris Atty
Jeff Behm
David Bland
Jeff H. Bleamer
Dr. Jim Bradley
Tom Bradley
Richard M. Brown
Chuck Burkhart
John W. Bush
Greg Buttle
Robert Campbell
Michael Cappelletti
Richard F. Caravella
Joseph V. Carlozo
Charles Chiampi
Thomas Greg Christian
Craig Coder
Ron Coder
Mike Conforto
F. Len Consalvo
Bill Crummy
Steven A. Davis
Chris Devlin
Joe Diange
Tom Donchez
Rocco English
Scott Fitzkee
Chuck Fusina
Paul Gabel
Steve Geise
Doneal Gersh
Bill Glennon
Tony Gordon
David F. Graf
Mike Guman
Brian Hand
Franco Harris
Scott Hettinger
Ron Hileman
Ron Hostetler
Thomas M. Hull
Neil Hutton
David W. Klock
Bob Knechtel
Richard A. Knechtel
Joe Lally
Philip LaPorta
John Lewchenko
Larry Ludwig
Mark Markovich
Brian Masella
Rich Mauti
Richard McClure
Lance Mehl
D. Scott Mitchell
Guy Montecalvo
Robert Nagle
Daniel F. Natale
Richard N. Nichols
Thomas Odell
Michael A. Orsini M.D.
Woody Petchel, Jr.
Carlos Quirch
Tom Rafferty
Joel Ramich
John M. Reihner
Paul Renaud
Robert Rickenbach
James E. Rosecrans
George SanFilippo
Carl Schaukowitch
Bernard Shalvey
Tom L. Shoemaker
Mickey Shuler Sr.
Tom Shuman
John Skorupan
Steven E. Stilley
Donald P. Tarosky
Raymond Tesner
Gary R. Tyler
Alberto Vitiello
Marshall Wagner
Dan Wallace
Alex Wasilov
Franklin Williams
John Williams
Thomas J. Williams
Charles Wilson

1980s
Rogers Alexander
Michael Arnold
Walker Lee Ashley
Mark Battaglia
Trey Bauer
Jeff Bergstrom
Todd Blackledge
Scott Bouslough
Kirk Bowman
Don Brinsky
Tim Bronish
Keith Brown
Jeff Brunie
Jeff Butya
Drew Bycoskie
Mark Cherewka
Chris Clauss
Joel Coles
Bill Contz
Tom Couch
Troy Cromwell
Peter Curkendall
Rich D’Amico
John DePasqua
Dwayne Downing
Michael Dunlay
Thomas Durant
Eric Etze
Craig Fiedler
Tim Freeman
Mark Fruehan
Brennan Gaertner
Mark Galimberti
Mike Garrett
Gene Gladys
Scott Gob
Nick Haden
Lance Hamilton
Albert Harris
Greg Hay
Stu Helgeson
Joseph Hines
John Hornyak
Randy Huttenberger
Timothy Janocko
Joe Johns
Eddie Johnson
Greg Jones
Keith Karpinski
Ken Kelley
Matt Knizner
Rich Kuzy
Massimo Manca
Kirk Martin
Carmen Masciantonio
Brian McCann
Matt McCartin
Donald Jay McCormick
Shawn McNamara
Mike Meade
Rob Mikulski
Dan Morgan
Bob Ontko
Aoatoa Polamalu
Bobby Polito
Ed Pryts
Scott Radecic
Terry Rakowski
Kevin Romango
Dwayne Rush
Michael Russo
Rich Schonewolf
John Shaffer
Brian Siverling
Patrick Slater
Rob Smith
Pete Speros
Joseph Strycharz
Mike Suter
Tim Sweeney
John Walsh
Darryl Washington
Steve Wisniewski
Jeff Woofter

1990s
Jeff Anderson
John Andress
Steve Babinchak
Michael Barninger
Tom Bill
Dave Brzenchek
Mike Carroll
Robert Ceh
Kerry Collins
Brett Conway
Bob Daman
Maurice Daniels
Daniel Drogan
Adam Fahrer
Douglas Farren
Gerald Filardi
Derek Fox
Reggie Fivens
Rudy Glocker
Ryan Grube
Shelly Hammonds
Jeff Hartings
Leonard Humphries
Greg Huntington
Chad Linnon
Rob Luedeke
Mike Malinoski
Joe Markiewicz
Christian Marrone
Tony Matesic
O.J. McDuffie
Tom Molnar
Joe Nastasi
Kevin O’Keefe
Brian O’Neal
Brandon Palmer
Ryan Seese
Brandon Short
Dave Smith
Terry Smith
Vincent Stewart

2000s
Lance Antolick
Jason Bisson
Mick Blosser
Jeremy Boone
James Boyd
Brian Brozeski
Dorian Burton
Gino Capone
Daryll Clark
Brennan Coakley
Dan Corrado
Jeremiah Davis
Steven Delich
Larry Federoff
Gus Felder
Shamar Finney
Eric Flohr
Joshua Gaines
Phil Gardill
Nathan Glunt
Ryan Gmerek
Tom Golarz
Andrew Guman
Benjamin Gummo
Joe Hartings
Erik Holt
Tom Humphrey
Justin Ingram
Joe Iorio
Cedric Jeffries
Bryant Johnson
Michael Johnson
Bobby Jones
Jim Kanuch
Brad Karson
Ben Lago
Kevion Latham
Tyler Lenda
Mike Lukac
Jordan Lyons
Nick Marmo
Shawn Mayer
Anthony Morelli
Jordan Norwood
Anwar Phillips
Andrew Pitz
Paul Posluszny
Curt Reese
Matthew Rice
David Royer
Bryan Scott
Ryan Scott
A.Q. Shipley
Mickey Shuler
Jonathan Stewart
Nick Sukay
Tyler Valoczki
Casey Williams
Tom Williams
Michael Yancich
Alan Zemaitis

Former Coaches and Staff
Dick Anderson
John Bove
Booker Brooks
Craig Cirbus
Don Carlino
Raymond J. Horan
George Salvaterra

(h/t The Morning Call)

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