Irv Pankey

He played college football as a tight end and offensive tackle for the Penn State Nittany Lions and was a team captain in 1979.In a 2022 ESPN story on Hodne, who would sexually assault nearly a dozen other women before being convicted of murder, Sailor recalled Pankey telling her, "I just wanted to let you know that I was in the courtroom today and I listened to what you had to say.Pankey and Sailor would lose contact after they graduated from Penn State, but would be reunited while the ESPN story was being researched.Pankey served as a professor and offensive line coach at the College of the Sequoias in Visalia, California.This biographical article relating to an American football offensive lineman born in the 1950s is a stub.
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