Glenn Scobey Warner

"Glenn Warner" redirects here. For the soccer coach at the Naval Academy, see Glenn Warner (soccer coach).

Glenn Scobey "Pop" Warner
Warner during the 1917 season at Pittsburgh
Sport(s)	Football, baseball
Biographical details
Born	(1871-04-05)April 5, 1871 Springville, New York
Died	September 7, 1954(1954-09-07) (aged 83) Palo Alto, California
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) 36–15 (baseball)
Bowls	1–1–2
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse
Accomplishments and honors
Championships 4 National (1915, 1916, 1918, 1926) 1 SIAA (1896) 3 PCC (1924, 1926, 1927)
Awards Amos Alonzo Stagg Award (1948)
College Football Hall of Fame Inducted in 1951 (profile)

Glenn Scobey 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. 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

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

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.

Coaching career

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Warner from the 1921 Pitt yearbook

Warner was hired by the University of Georgia as its new head football coach in 1895 at a salary of $34 per week. For the 1895–1896 academic year, Georgia's entire student body consisted of 126 students. 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 co-coach at Iowa State. 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. Warner's Iowa State record was 18–8, 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 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.

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, in 1915, 1916 and 1918. He coached Pittsburgh from 1915 to 1923, compiling a record of 60–12–4. 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.

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 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

Football

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Warner in a Cornell uniform, c. 1894

"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.

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs
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
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
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 (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
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

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
• Pop Warner's Pitt years – YouTube video