Show A SPICE r ON N A GRAY fall faU day back in inthe inthe inthe the long forgotten year of 1895 a young oung kid sat in the stands watching watching watch watch- ing ina Vanderbilt and Georgia meet The coach of the Georgia Georgi t team am was another young fellow out of Cornell Cornell Cornell Cor Cor- nell by the name of Glenn Scoby Warner later known as Pop Here 52 2 years ago was the real beginning of one of the great coaches of all time I Cornell Georgia the Carlisle Indians Indians In In- rs Pittsburgh Stanford a and n d 4 Z Temple Pop has been a friend of mine for too many s years to mention mention- Y 30 40 what difference difference difference dif dif- ference does doe s it make The years Y roll b by f faster ter th than l Man U 0 war could Warner ever run Pop Warner Warner Warner War War- ner has been footballs football's greatest inventor inventor inventor in in- of plays including the single and double wing on offense still just lust justas as popular as the T. T Pop had a fine team at Georgia record-breaking record teams at Carlisle Carlisle Car Car- lisle Pittsburgh and Stanford where his football knowledge and his iron personality dominated the scene He was the only coach who had hadnot hadnot hadnot not not exactly the fear but the complete respect of Jim Thorpe a football genius no one else could handle This is easy to understand understand- I for Pop discovered Jim Thorpe when he was an ah Indian stripling at Carlisle Carlisle Carlisle Car Car- lisle just 15 years old Thorpe then weighed pounds Pop Fop still isn't quite sure whether his best team was at Carlisle Pittsburgh or Stanford The answer Is he had great teams at all three places Look over the men he has coached Thorpe Galac Guyon Me- Me Hauser Little Bear Mt Pleasant Hudson Peck Ernie Nevers Nevers Nevers Nev- Nev ers entirely too many to mention here at least 50 in the upper brackets of the game His two greatest greatest greatest great great- est were Thorpe and Nevers Thorpe the genius genius Nevers Nevers the 60 minute man Thorpe the greatest Nevers the most valuable Carlisle Was Tops The UThe Indians Pop wrote me 30 years ago are the only true ama ama- They play football for fun They are no good in the rain rain for for it isn't any fun At different hotels they are more popular than any white team for they are quiet well be haved never any trouble No silver or towels ever missing They are the gentlemen of our profession But they play only when they feel like playing playing only only when it is fun I still think Pops Pop's Carlisle all team with Thorpe Galac GaJac Guyon Guy- Guy on and Mt 1 Pleasant in the backfield backfield backfield back- back field would beat the pick from Pittsburgh or Stanford Harvard Harvard Harvard Har Har- vard Notre Dame Yale Michigan Michigan Michigan Michi Michi- gan Army or anywhere else Pop Warner Varner belonged to the old iron man iron man school of coaching There was never anything soft about Pop To him football was something more than a matter of plays where plays where he is still one of the masters It was wasa a game of condition condition of of discipline discipline- of concentration of of giving all you have He was no easy task master He gave the country a lesson that it needed The primrose trail had no part in his philosophy It would be difficult to say what coach has had the greatest influence influence influence football Warner War War- Warner Varner ence on college Pop ner or Knute Rockne Not so far back are Up Hurry-Up Yost and Percy Haughton or Walter Valter Camp Originator o of 0 Plays Pop undoubtedly was the inventive inventive inventive invent invent- ive genus His single and dou double le lewing wing attack still have a big place in any football offensive It is a much stronger attack than the T for many teams which many coaches have overlooked Pops Pop's word was a double bond Some 25 years ago we left on a trip to Syracuse with Walter Valter Camp Pop was coaching Pittsburgh Chick Meehan was coaching Syracuse We all had breakfast together Im sorry Pop Meehan said but I haven't had the chance to scout you this season What are you using today Im using only five plays Chick Pop said Here they arc are Pop diagrammed each play If we use another play call a penalty and Ill I'll back you yoo up Pop only used the five plays throughout the game Football was simpler then and to my mind more the way college football should be There was trust and faith between coaches and teams where today there is too much suspicion distrust and lack of faith Too many coaches and teams are breaking rules in regard to their playing personnel and everybody l it it In the way of gate receipts public public public pub pub- lic excitement thrills and the rest of it the it-the the modern game is supreme It is now a better game to watch despite its unlimited substitutions where from 35 to 45 men make a team on the field But through all the changes variations variations variations vari vari- and shifts Pop Warners Warner's single single single sin sin- gle and double wing still remain among the most effective ve offensive football knows |