Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-01-31
GLENN S. WARNER BEGAN
CAREER AS A LAWYER
business Did Not Provo to Be Profit.
able, So Ho Took Up Coaching
Athletes as Profession.
HE IS ANOTHER MIRACLE MAN
Developed Many Stars While ut Car
lisle-Will Take Up His Duties at
Pittsburgh, and Expects to De-
velop Representative Eleven.

NEW YORK, January ao:-The law
S York saU Iasnt yssssE iueInt,Se in New
GLENN S. Warner .sI now S"e eoe .na' Of thss
University Of Pittsburgh eleven. busted
into the football coaching business.
Ereatest football coaches in America,
and one OF the most famous athletic
miracle man" when it comes TO de.
veloping green material. as is shown by
his work as coach and traincr. at the
Warner has brought to the fore
many wonderful athletes, Including
n rnnsr reTin lynn TSorS tha Great DISTANCE
ttiei OF sre"tes, ali around % athlete 'h in
the h,ha World n lsl2 oblEmgics and Charles
greatest pitchers in major league his
tory.
Tss gus: says S?S sh'n hs
7 recognized pitching skill in Bender
and coached him In the art of pitch,
ng nsnr fyom an APT prD sen
500 he joined the Philadelphia Ath-
letlcs. The rest Is history.
Thorpe Hard to Handle.
Jim Tho Thorpe Had was as Sne s 9f the hardest,
Warner. "He didn't believe no was an
athlete. i had to keep drilling that
i into him in Even when he was gaining
ments were due more to fool luck than
skill.
Thorpe was discovered in an acct
dental fyna ts h GGe day had squad out
men seemed able TO clear the bar after
I had shifted 1t rather high. Just at
had been working in one Of the s school
shops. He was wearing overalls and
carving a bucket.
couldn't do tho jump. dropped his
bucket. stepped back a few PAGES, and
without wit ulo,s., word ord made mad flying leap
spare.
Thorpe did that without training.
! hadn't seen him before. at least. I
man al the sshoo nu, he as ss,
that hustled him OF TO tho gymna.
stun, pushed him into an athletic suit
athletic world"
Warner has been handling athletes
work. was. done at Carlisle. where he
found nothing each year but green
1 of sns om The plains and
not know the difference between a pole
How did you handle tho 1ndians?"
Uses Patience.
:. with patience" answered Warner
than through any|other method. They
won't stand for bullying tactics.
I'm the training OF the athletes
ing the men the fundamentals Of the
sport. But after that I humored the
pecuiinrities of the men. No two men
90 things exactly alike. II yon try
TO force squad OF athletes to train ac-
e eordi NO 70 fixed rule: you make an
wanted to do things his own way In
stead OF In tho general accepted way.
whether IT was In baseball. football or
I'm ~ nj
convinced that the way he was doing
1t was detractipg from his skill"
Warner was famous football play
er In the early '90s IIe played guard
At Cornell Saa,eiI, and no was a wender at
ball team and won his letter for track
work, too.
Warner graduated in 1895. and at
once. trekled to New York. where he
But business didn't do any perking
UP. Just about the time when Warner
was beginning to figure out how he
was going to purchase coal and other
gia. hunting around for a football
coach. discovered Warner. They offered
him 5ob--Rnd Warner accepted.
Warner coached the Georgia eleven
IN 1895 and 1895. His success was
parts Of the land; In due time It
nell And right away Cornell decided
II wanted Warner. 1t got him-at
with Cornell In 'e7 and 'es.
Warner stayed at Cornell in 1897
and lSss. repeating his coaching sue
cess there. Then It was that the Car
Isle Indian school heard Of Warner
and Offered him the Job Of athletic