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The Big Ten has taken Paterno’s name off the Big Ten’s football championship trophy.

League commissioner Jim Delany said Monday November 14, 2011 that it is ”inappropriate” to keep Joe Paterno’s name on the trophy that will be awarded December 3, 2011 after the first Big Ten championship game.

Penn State excused its longtime head coach Paterno from his coaching duties last week and investigations are under way into allegations of child sex-abuse involving a former assistant for the Penn State University.

The trophy was named the Stagg-Paterno Championship Trophy. Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg won 319 games in 57 years. Most of his victories were with University of Chicago, Joe Paterno’s 409 wins are the most by a major college coach edging out Grambling’s Coach Eddie Robinson’s 408 victories.

The trophy will now be called the Stagg Championship Trophy.

Robert Stagg of Grand Rapids, Michigan is the great grandson of Amos Alonzo Stagg. Robert Staggs said last week that his family was honored to have the Stagg name on the trophy whatever happened with the Paterno’s name.