The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-10-23
HOW warner
BUILDS HIS
GRID CLASSICS
A Little Dope on System
Used by Famous
Coach
BY DEAN SNYDER.

Football material Is to Coach
Glenn Pop" Warner OF the Pitts
burgh Panthers as nugget gold Is
to the goldsmith.
He takes youngsters of Drawn
and brains and courage and molds
them into grldtron machine that
is feared wherever 1t rrot5 onto
the span between set Ot goal
posts.
This year Coach Warmers Pan
theirs are conceded to be one OF the
strongest elevens In moleSkins.
And yet tbs Pittsburgh mentor
is never an opLimist before the
battle. Invariably he ladies' CT the
pro.game brGtl that mis- team Is
apt to lose. Tut they seldom do.
Warmers main theory in dc,
yeloping a team is to have eleven
men III every play.
His squad uses the direct pass
ing practically all together. 1t
adds another man for defensive
play, saves the possibility Of FUN
bling and is faster IN execution.
He IL no. a slave driver and has
never had the name OF being re.
lated in any way 10 Simon Le'
gree" of Uncle TOMS Cabin days.
Strict training rules aren writ
ten down IL black and White Tor
his men.
Warner doesn't tell his men that
they must eat this and that and
to lay off OF certain foods. Nor
does he put them In bed by the
clock
He gets results in another way.
If one OF his men has been broak'
ing training rules that all atl'
rEz I,sA GU
on the playing field til" next day:
Warner works all the bad out Of
players who don't keep in shape.
One or two offenses suffice.
Warmers work.cure brings them
around and they plan their diets
more carefully and stop night-hawX-
ing around in the future.
One thing he does insist on is
that each play must be done this
way he wants It. However, when
they make plumbers he doesn't
scold, knowing we'll that :he I'M
expected Is always bobbinG up III
gridirOn battles.
The night before the game he
holds a blackboard session with
his men. His scouts which have
reports. They blackboard all Ehe
opposing teams plays and WORK
cut attacks to overthrow them.
"The forward pass has been de-
velODed lot since its first innova-
ton in football" says Warner.
Experience has taught just
about what kind OF passing gets re.
suits and the kind that don't.
Warner is great lover of heavy
weights. Weight Is the big thing
in football, he believes. The 200
pound boys make 4 big hit Win
him. When he sees them being
developed OH the "Frosh" squad
his mouth waters to see them on
his varsity eleven.
Warner made his name as foot
ball coach first at Carlysle, where
he brought out the great Jim
Thorpc-the wonder Indian athlete.
Thorpe wasn't very keen about
football when | first took him In
hand" says Warner. HE didn't
like the gaff and he didn't like to
train for 1t. took him along and
he began to show stuff. The stu
dents and football world began to
idolize the big Indian and then
Thorpe caught the spirit which
made him one of the games great
est"
was no fluke. He went over to
Pitt and made the Panther, eleven
ball. This year his team is fig.
ured one Of the strongest in the
east.
Pitt lost its first game in five
years under Warner last fall when
beaten by Syracuse "a to 8.
Yep! Pop" knows a thing or
two about a pigskin.