Glenn Scobey Warner
Glenn Scobey "Pop" Warner | |
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Warner during the 1917 season at Pittsburgh | |
Sport(s) | Football, baseball |
Biographical details | |
Born |
Springville, New York | April 5, 1871
Died |
September 7, 1954 83) Palo Alto, California | (aged
Playing career | |
Football 1892–1894 1902 |
Cornell Syracuse Athletic Club |
Position(s) | Guard |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football 1895–1896 1895–1899 1897–1898 1899–1903 1904–1906 1907–1914 1915–1923 1924–1932 1933–1938 1939 Baseball 1905–1906 |
Georgia Iowa State Cornell Carlisle Indian Cornell Carlisle Indian Pittsburgh Stanford Temple San Jose State (associate) Cornell |
Head coaching record | |
Overall |
319–106–32 (football)[n 1] 36–15 (baseball) |
Bowls | 1–1–2 |
Statistics | |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
Awards
Amos Alonzo Stagg Award (1948) | |
College Football Hall of Fame Inducted in 1951 (profile) |
Glenn Scobey "Pop" Warner (April 5, 1871 – September 7, 1954), most commonly known as Pop Warner, was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Georgia (1895–1896), Cornell University (1897–1898, 1904–1906), the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1899–1903, 1907–1914), the University of Pittsburgh (1915–1923), Stanford University (1924–1932), and Temple University (1933–1938), compiling a career college football record of 319–106–32.[n 1] Warner coached four teams to national championships: in 1915, 1916, and 1918 with Pittsburgh and in 1926 with Stanford. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1951. Warner also helped start the popular youth American football organization, Pop Warner Little Scholars.
Early life and playing career
Warner was born in Springville, New York. He attended and played football for Cornell University. As captain of the Cornell football team, Warner 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 married Lorraine Tibb, 1888 graduate of Ten Broeck Academy in the Town of Franklinville. In 1902, Warner played pro football for the Syracuse Athletic Club during the first World Series of Football, held at Madison Square Garden. It was during this event, that Warner played in the very first professional indoor football game as his Syracuse squad upset the heavily favored "New York" team. During the Series, Warner was cut badly on the side of his head. While he laughed it off at the time, he was replaced for the rest of the Series, by Blondy Wallace.[1]
Coaching career
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 1895–96 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 three wins against four losses.
The following year Georgia rehired Warner and the team had an undefeated season. While at Georgia, Warner also served as a head coach and then co-coach at Iowa State.[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, bringing Warner's total lifetime record to 337–114–32.[n 1]
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 to 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.
Warner was hired by the University of Pittsburgh in 1914. 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, compiling a record of 60–12–4.[7] One of Warner's players, Jock Sutherland, would succeed him as the head coach at Pitt.
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 five years until retiring in 1938. Following his retirement, he served as advisory football coach for the Spartans of San Jose State College.
Warner died on September 7, 1954 of throat cancer in Palo Alto, California, at age 83. His widow died in 1961.[8]
Legacy
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
Head coaching record
Football
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Georgia Bulldogs (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1895–1896) | |||||||||
1895 | Georgia | 3–4 | 2–4 | ||||||
1896 | Georgia | 4–0 | 3–0 | T–1st | |||||
Georgia: | 7–4 | 5–4 | |||||||
Cornell Big Red (Independent) (1897–1898) | |||||||||
1897 | Cornell | 5–3–1 | |||||||
1898 | Cornell | 10–2 | |||||||
Carlisle Indians (Independent) (1899–1903) | |||||||||
1899 | Carlisle | 9–2 | |||||||
1900 | Carlisle | 6–4–1 | |||||||
1901 | Carlisle | 5–7–1 | |||||||
1902 | Carlisle | 8–3 | |||||||
1903 | Carlisle | 11–2–1 | |||||||
Cornell Big Red (Independent) (1904–1906) | |||||||||
1904 | Cornell | 7–3 | |||||||
1905 | Cornell | 6–4 | |||||||
1906 | Cornell | 8–1–2 | |||||||
Cornell: | 36–13–3 | ||||||||
Carlisle Indians (Independent) (1907–1914) | |||||||||
1907 | Carlisle | 10–1 | |||||||
1908 | Carlisle | 11–2–1[n 1] | |||||||
1909 | Carlisle | 8–3–1 | |||||||
1910 | Carlisle | 8–6 | |||||||
1911 | Carlisle | 11–1 | |||||||
1912 | Carlisle | 12–1–1 | |||||||
1913 | Carlisle | 10–1–1 | |||||||
1914 | Carlisle | 5–9–1 | |||||||
Carlisle: | 114–42–8[n 1] | ||||||||
Pittsburgh Panthers (Independent) (1915–1923) | |||||||||
1915 | Pittsburgh | 8–0 | |||||||
1916 | Pittsburgh | 8–0 | |||||||
1917 | Pittsburgh | 10–0 | |||||||
1918 | Pittsburgh | 4–1 | |||||||
1919 | Pittsburgh | 6–2–1 | |||||||
1920 | Pittsburgh | 6–0–2 | |||||||
1921 | Pittsburgh | 5–3–1 | |||||||
1922 | Pittsburgh | 8–2 | |||||||
1923 | Pittsburgh | 5–4 | |||||||
Pittsburgh: | 60–12–4 | ||||||||
Stanford Indians (Pacific Coast Conference) (1924–1932) | |||||||||
1924 | Stanford | 7–1–1 | 3–0–1 | 1st | L Rose | ||||
1925 | Stanford | 7–2 | 4–1 | 2nd | |||||
1926 | Stanford | 10–0–1 | 4–0 | 1st | T Rose | ||||
1927 | Stanford | 8–2–1 | 4–0–1 | T–1st | W Rose | ||||
1928 | Stanford | 8–3–1 | 4–1–1 | 3rd | |||||
1929 | Stanford | 9–2 | 5–1 | 2nd | |||||
1930 | Stanford | 9–1–1 | 4–1 | 3rd | |||||
1931 | Stanford | 7–2–2 | 2–2–1 | T–5th | |||||
1932 | Stanford | 6–4–1 | 1–3–1 | 7th | |||||
Stanford: | 71–17–8 | ||||||||
Temple Owls (Independent) (1933–1938) | |||||||||
1933 | Temple | 5–3 | |||||||
1934 | Temple | 7–1–2 | L Sugar | ||||||
1935 | Temple | 7–3 | |||||||
1936 | Temple | 6–3–2 | |||||||
1937 | Temple | 3–2–4 | |||||||
1938 | Temple | 3–6–1 | |||||||
Temple: | 31–18–9 | ||||||||
Total: | 319–106–32[n 1] | ||||||||
National championship Conference title Conference division title |
See also
- Georgia Bulldogs football under Pop Warner
- Pittsburgh Panthers football under Pop Warner
- List of college football coaches with 200 wins
- List of college football head coaches with non-consecutive tenure
- Pop Warner Trophy
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 The NCAA credits Warner with a career football coaching record of 319–106–32. The College Football Data Warehouse gives him one fewer win with the Carlisle Indians in 1908 for a career record of 318–106–32. Neither includes the five seasons at Iowa State (1895–1899) during which time Warner co-coached the Cyclones to a record of 18–8 while he simultaneously coached at three other schools.
References
- ↑ Carroll, Bob (1980). "The First Football World Series" (PDF). Coffin Corner (Professional Football Researchers Association) 2 (Annual): 1–8.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Reed, Thomas Walter (c. 1949). "Chapter XI: The Administration of Chancellor William E. Boggs Through the Session of 1898". History of the University of Georgia. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia. p. 1696.
- ↑ 2006 Iowas State Cyclone Football, page 126
- ↑ Cornell Chronicle 9–18–97
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF). Indianapolis, Indiana: National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. pp. 76–81. Retrieved October 16, 2009.
- ↑ Pittsburgh Coaching Records
- ↑ "Mrs. Glenn Warner Dies". New York Times. Associated Press. November 5, 1961. Retrieved 2015-02-06.
Mrs. Tibb Loraie Warner, widow of Glenn (Pop) Warner, died yesterday at her home. Her age was 90. ...
Further reading
- Danzig, Allison (1956). The History of American Football: Its Great Teams, Players, and Coaches. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
- Reed, Thomas Walter (1949). History of the University of Georgia. "Chapter XVII: Athletics at the University from the Beginning Through 1947". Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. pages 3441–3445.
External links
- Glenn Scobey Warner at the College Football Hall of Fame
- Glenn Scobey Warner at the College Football Data Warehouse
- Glenn Scobey "Pop" Warner at Find a Grave
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