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4 unusual facts about Pop Warner


Carlos Montezuma

In 1900, he traveled as team doctor with Coach Pop Warner's National Champion Carlisle Indian School football team back to Arizona for the first time since his childhood.

Notre Dame–Stanford football rivalry

The series began on January 1, 1925 (the end of the 1924 season) when Notre Dame's Four Horsemen and head coach Knute Rockne faced Stanford's Ernie Nevers and head coach Pop Warner at the 1925 Rose Bowl.

Pop Warner

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

Pop Warner Little Scholars, a non-profit organization named after the coach that offers youth American football and cheerleading and dance programs


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).

Frank Palumbo

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

Jamaal Branch

Branch currently works with the Pop Warner Youth Football players in his hometown of Mashpee, and also works with a company called D-1 Athletes, alongside former Carolina Panthers & Tennessee Titans wide receiver, Isaac Byrd.

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.

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.


see also

Pop Warner Little Scholars

The 2010 Scholastic Banquet took place in Philadelphia, the birthplace of Pop Warner Little Scholars, Inc., while the 2011 All-American Scholar Weekend was held in downtown Chicago at the Marriott, Magnificent Mile.

Walt Disney, attracted by this philosophy, filmed a two-hour show,"Moochie of Pop Warner Football".