Terry Smith is Penn State's second-ever interim head coach. Tom Bradley was the first.

Terry Smith, a former Penn State wideout and a team captain on the 1991 Lions team, was named interim PSU head coach on Sunday.

Smith replaces the fired James Franklin as the program’s leader.

Smith, who coached Penn State’s corners at the start of the season, arrived in State College in 2014 to join Franklin’s staff.

Penn State football has been around since 1887.

The Lions’ first coach, George Hoskins, arrived in 1892.

Smith is a Penn State football coaching rarity. He is just the second interim head coach in the Lions’ history.

Tom Bradley was the first, per the Penn State football media guide.

Bradley, a former Penn State player, was the late Joe Paterno’s longtime defensive coordinator who became PSU’s interim head coach in early November of 2011.

Paterno was fired late in