Pop Warner
| Glenn Scobey "Pop" Warner | ||
|---|---|---|
| Title | Head Coach | |
| Sport | College football | |
| Born | April 5, 1871 | |
| Place of birth | Springville, New York | |
| Died | September 7, 1954 | |
| Career highlights | ||
| Overall | Major NCAA: 319-106-32 (.733) Overall: 337-114-32 (.731) | |
| Coaching stats | ||
| College Football DataWarehouse | ||
| Championships | ||
| 1917, 1919, 1925 | ||
| Playing career | ||
| 1892-1894 | Cornell University | |
| Position | Guard | |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | ||
| 1895 - 1896 1897 - 1898 1899 - 1903 1904 - 1906 1907 - 1914 1915 - 1923 1924 - 1932 1933 - 1938 1895 - 1899 |
University of Georgia Cornell University Carlisle Indian Industrial School Cornell University Carlisle Indian Industrial School University of Pittsburgh Stanford University Temple University also Iowa State University | |
| College Football Hall of Fame, 1951 | ||
Glenn Scobey Warner (April 5, 1871–September 7, 1954) was an American football coach, also known as Pop Warner. During his illustrious forty-four year career as a head coach (1895–1938), Warner amassed 319 NCAA victories and led his teams to unheard of dominance. [1] Warner was an innovator that helped shape the game of football. More than anything else, Pop took the game of football, and developed players into better human beings. Nowadays, he is best known for the Pop Warner Youth Foundation, which has used football as a medium to develop players both athletically and acedmically, and prepare them mentally for what life as a whole may bring.
Early Life
Glenn Scobey Warner was born to William and Adeline Warner in Springville, New York on April 5, 1871, a mere two days after the first ever football game featuring Princeton and Rutgers.[2] This could be seen as a mark of fate from the football gods. Warner attended and played football for Cornell University. Football, which had never been a passion for him until the age of twenty-one, came to him by accident. In fact, Warner was simply invited to practice in 1892 and the rest was history. As captain of the Cornell football team, he obtained the nickname "Pop" because he was older than most of his teammates. After graduating from Cornell, he had a brief legal career in New York. Warner was then hired by the University of Georgia as its new head football coach in 1895 at a salary of $34 per week.[3] From here, Warner dedicated his life to the development of the game of football, and invested forty-four years in the game.
Pop Warner's Coaching Career
Glen Scobey Warner’s glorious career, unlike most Hall of Fame coaches, included stints with several different teams en route to piling 319 wins—excluding 18 wins at Iowa State University. During his four decades as a coach, Warner brought many innovations to college football, including the spiral punt, the screen play, single- and double-wing formations, the naked reverse, the three-point stance, numbering players' jerseys, and the use of shoulder and thigh pads.
During his first year there, Georgia's entire student body consisted of only 248 students, and only 13 of those were on the football team. As a result, Warner's first Georgia team had 3 wins against 4 losses. The following year, Georgia rehired Warner and the team had an undefeated season (4 wins and 0 losses). While at Georgia, Warner also coached Iowa State University.[4] He coached teams from two schools simultaneously on three occasions: Iowa State and Georgia during the 1895 and 1896 seasons, Iowa State and Cornell in 1897 and 1898, and Iowa State and Carlisle in 1899. [5] Warner's Iowa State record was 18-8-0, bringing Warner's total lifetime record to 337-114-32
After his stint in Georgia, Warner returned to Cornell to coach football for two seasons. He then coached at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania for 1899-1903, returned to Cornell for three seasons, and returned again to Carlisle in 1907. During his second tenure at Carlisle, Warner coached one of the most famous American athletes, Jim Thorpe.
In 1914, Warner was hired by the University of Pittsburgh, where he coached his teams to 33 straight major wins and three national championships (1915, 1916 and 1918).[6] He coached Pittsburgh from 1915 to 1923 to a 60-12-4 record.[7]
The next team Warner coached was at Stanford University from 1924 to 1932, where his teams played in three Rose Bowl games, including the classic 1925 game against Knute Rockne and the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame. Warner added a fourth national championship in 1926.[6]
Warner's final head coaching job was at Temple University where he coached for 5 years until retiring in 1938. He served as advisory football coach for several years at San Jose State College after his retirement from Temple.
University of Georgia
Cornell University
Carlisle Indian School
University of Pittsburgh
Stanford University
Temple University
Death and Legacy
Warner died of throat cancer in Palo Alto, California at the age of 83. On July 25, 1997, the U.S. Postal Service honored four legendary football coaches—Pop Warner, Bear Bryant, Vince Lombardi, and George Halas—with a 32-cent commemorative stamp for each. First day of issue ceremonies were held at the Professional Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. Each stamp was subsequently issued with a red bar above the coach's name in the state most associated with that stamp. On August 8, 1997, the second version of the Pop Warner stamp (with the red bar) was issued in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania—the state where he spent most of his years coaching. Still, some sports enthusiasts felt that Georgia—which gave Warner his first coaching job—would have been a worthy site for the stamp.
Related Page
- Georgia Bulldogs football under Pop Warner
Notes and References
- ↑ Official 2006 NCAA Divisions I-A and II-A Football Records Book, at page 374 reflects 319 wins, however College Football DataWharehouse lists 318 wins.
- ↑ http://www.cornellbigred.com/Pdfs/football/2007/8/23/CornellFootballLegends.pdf
- ↑ Reed, Thomas Walter (1949). Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. History of the University of Georgia; Chapter XVII: Athletics at the University from the Beginning Through 1947 imprint pages 3441
- ↑ 2006 Iowas State Cyclone Football, page 126
- ↑ Cornell Chronicle 9-18-97
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Past Division I-A Football National Champions
- ↑ Pittsburgh Coaching Records
External links
- Pop Warner biography. University of Georgia's GeorgiaInfo. Retrieved June 27, 2005.
- CU football halftime ceremony honors legendary 'Pop' Warner. Cornell Chronicle. Retrieved June 26, 2005.
- Reed, Thomas Walter (1949). Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. History of the University of Georgia; Chapter XVII: Athletics at the University from the Beginning Through 1947 imprint pages 3441-3445
- Circa 1895 photograph of Georgia coach Pop Warner. Digital Library of Georgia. Retrieved December 18, 2006.
- college hall of fame bio
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