Complex sentence: Joe Paterno was a head coach of Penn State Nittany Lions football, serving from the retirement of Rip Engle after the 1965 season until he was fired on November 9,2011, in the wake of the Penn State sex abuse scandal.
Split into simpler sentences: Joe Paterno was a former head coach of Penn State Nittany Lions football. Paterno served as head coach from the retirement of Rip Engle after the 1965 season until he was fired on November 9,2011, in the wake of the Penn State sex abuse scandal.