Glenn Scobey Warner

Glenn Scobey "Pop" Warner
"Pop" Warner during the 1917 season at Pitt
Title	Head Coach
Sport	College football
Born	April 5, 1871(1871-04-05)
Place of birth	Springville, New York
Died	September 7, 1954 (aged 83)
Career highlights
Overall	Major NCAA: NCAA: 319-106-32 (.733) CFBDW: 318-106-32 (.732) Overall NCAA: 337-114-32 (.731)
Bowls	1-1-1
Coaching stats
College Football DataWarehouse
Championships
1915, 1916, 1918, 1926
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 Cornell University Carlisle Indian University of Pittsburgh Stanford University Temple University Iowa State University
College Football Hall of Fame, 1951 (Bio)

Glenn Scobey Warner (April 5, 1871 – September 7, 1954) was an American football coach, also known as Pop Warner. During his 44-year career as a head coach (1895–1938), Warner had 319 major NCAA college football wins.^[1] The 319 wins listed does not include 18 wins at Iowa State University. He also helped start the popular youth American football organization, Pop Warner Little Scholars.

Early life

1892 Cornell varsity football team: Warner is the 4th from the left in the middle row.

Glenn Scobey Warner was born in Springville, New York. Warner attended and played football for Cornell University. 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.

Coaching

Warner was hired by the University of Georgia as its new head football coach in 1895 at a salary of $34 per week.^[2] For the 1895-1896 academic year, Georgia's entire student body consisted of 126 students.^[3] This was Georgia's first year in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, a conference that it founded along with Alabama, Auburn, Georgia Tech, North Carolina and Vanderbilt. 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 from 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 has been credited with 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 Rose Bowl 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.

Warner brought many innovative playing mechanics to college football:

• the screen pass
• spiral punt
• single- and double-wing formations
• the use of shoulder and thigh pads.
• designed helmets red for backs and white for ends

Warner died of throat cancer in Palo Alto, California at the age of 83.

Head coaching record

"Pop" (right) with three-time All-American and University of Pittsburgh team captain Bob Peck during the 1916 season. That year, Pitt would outscore its opponents 255-25 along the way to an 8-0 record and a consensus National Championship.

See also

• Georgia Bulldogs football under Pop Warner
• Pittsburgh Panthers football under Pop Warner

Notes

External links

• "Pop Warner biography". University of Georgia's GeorgiaInfo. http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/warner.htm. Retrieved June 27 2005. 
• "CU football halftime ceremony honors legendary 'Pop' Warner". Cornell Chronicle. http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/97/9.18.97/Pop_Warner.html. 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. http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/cgi-bin/meta.cgi?userid=public&dbs=meta&action=retrieve&recno=11&rset=003&format=dlg&h2=vang. Retrieved December 18 2006. 
• College Hall of Fame bio
• Doctors, Lawyers, Indian Chiefs devotes a chapter to Pop Warner.
• Glenn Scobey Warner at Find a Grave