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10 unusual facts about Glenn Scobey Warner


Andrew Kerr

While at Pitt as an assistant football coach also in charge of the freshman football squad, he served as a member of the staff of legendary head coach Glenn Scobey "Pop" Warner.

Buck-lateral series

Before the invention of the Single-Wing offense by Glenn Scobey Warner, offenses used simple plays designed for runners to attack the defensive front behind massed line blocking.

Frank Palumbo

Palumbo had been a long time supporter of the Pop Warner Junior Football Conference.

Glenn Scobey Warner

During his second tenure at Carlisle, Warner coached one of the most famous American athletes, Jim Thorpe.

James Lynah

He was captain and quarterback of the football team under Coach Pop Warner.

Ossie Solem

During his time with the Marines, Solem introduced the team to the single-wing formation, developed by the famed coach, Pop Warner, and used by the University of Minnesota, where Solem had played football.

Iowa defeated a heavily favored, nationally ranked Temple team, coached by Pop Warner, 25–0, to end Solem's coaching career at Iowa.

Pop Warner

Glenn Scobey "Pop" Warner, an early 20th-century American college football coach

Sutherland single-wing

Sutherland created this formation from the original single-wing he learned from legendary coach Pop Warner at the University of Pittsburgh in the 1910s.

Ted Shipkey

Shipkey played end for Stanford under Pop Warner, and was an All-American in 1925 and 1926.


1918 Pittsburgh Panthers football team

In a season cut short by the Spanish flu pandemic, coach Glenn Scobey "Pop" Warner led the Panthers in a schedule played all in one month, including a convincing victory in a highly publicized game over defending national champion and unscored-upon Georgia Tech.

E. E. Jones

Only three outside schools have provided Georgia with more than one head coach in football: Princeton (Jones and William A. Reynolds), Cornell University (Pop Warner and Gordon Saussy), and Brown University (Charles McCarthy, James Coulter, and Frank Dobson).