The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-25
Gets Biggest Thrill from Baseball
Pop" Warner, Stanford Foot
ball Strategist, Was Versa.
tile Athlete
BY RUSSELL ]. NEWLANn

BY RUSSELL J. NEWLAND
Palo Alto. Calf. Feb. 25.-(P-
Glenn Scobey Warner. at so, is ont
Of footballs greatest strategists. Hi,
teams have made gridiron history, but
he thinks he should have stuck tc
baseball.
For 1t was baseball-not the ann te
which he has contributed SO brilliant.
ly-that gave him his greatest thrill
That came the time he caught his
first ball game, at S%pringville, N. Y.
IN the late sos. He got two hits;
still insists the umpire gypped him out
Of a third.
The rules Of football have been
changed time and again because Of his
creative genius. He brought out the
hidden ball trick in 1897. Rules were
changed to meet the emergency. Then
he sewed halves OF cheap footballs on
the players Jerseys. More rule
changes.
He introduced the football crouch.
He gave the game the wing back for
nation. also the unbalanced back
field. He originated the screened pass,
devised the solid thigh pads; i'm
proved shoulder pads, remodeled many
other appliances.
Yet non of his football achieve
ments give him more satisfaction than
telling Of the time he was heavy
weight boxing champion at Cornell.
He will stop in the middle of a street
to demonstrate his corkscrew punch.
It won him the title.
Nicknamed Butter"
AS a boy, his playmates nicknamed
him Butter" He looked like a mound
of hay. His brothers, Bill of Hermis-
ton. Ore. and Fred of San Clemente,
Calf, say he was the LATEST kid in
Texas. The family lived on a ranch
near Wichita Falls. All Glenn wanted
to do was make playthings and eat
and sleep.
To keep from working. he went to
college. His dad gave him 500 tu-
ition fee at Cornell. He got to New
York and went to the horse races at
Saratoga. The bookmakers pocketed
his 500. He borrowed another GEN.
fury note and lost it playing poker.
Persuaded Cornell authorities to let
him enter on deferred payments.
Worked as a waiter and painted and
sold pictures of sunsets, trees, cows
and what not to pay the tuition.
He played guard for Cornell. Team
mates hung the moniker Pop on
him. He looked like an old man. ,
Didn't set the football world on fire.
but was captain and coach in his
last year-1892. Graduated in law.
Practiced a few months. Started
coaching at Ames college in 1893.
to Georgia the same sea-
Then to Cornell; over to- Car
isle; back to Cornell: again to Car
isle; to Pittsburgh; then Stanford.
He has a fine home in Palo Alto, but
spends most of his time in a work.
in his garage. Always figuring
out football plays. Diagrams can be
found on the back of sandpapcr and
boards in his workshop. On every
piece of paper in his pockets. He de-
a check in the bank. It had
plays on the back of it. But
no signature. At banquets he draws ,
On napkins and takes them home.
Rather Tinker Than Eat
He would rather tinker than cat.
Buys up old automobiles so he can ,
Tx them. Has three rattletrap veter-
Two are nine years old, the
other eight. Has an expensive car but
uses it. He will miss dinner to
a saw for the carpenter across
he street. Will walk a couple of
blocks anytime to take a clock to
Loves golf but claims the club max
RS don't know their business. Made
his own set. The shaft fit into the
middle of the head rather than in the
Jack. Says this makes for perfect
But he shoots in the COS. Fa-
'oritc club is his "all-purpose baby
t Is made Of wood, with more loft
han a spoon. Uses it out of sand
raps. rough and for approaches to
he green.
Plays for Side Bets
Won't play unless there is a side
Limit Is five cents for first on
he green and five cents for first in
he hole. He won SO cents once.
'alked Of it for a week. Dick Han
~, coach at Northwestern, shoots 10
trokes better than the old man, but
ever has beaten him. Pops golf
lles include talking, laughing, cough
and singing.
Try to hook him on a nickel bet
nd he'll use virile language, but he
ives away two and three hundred
ollars at a time to needy friends.
He owns several houses, but Is al
'ays forgetting to collect the rent. Is
football syndicate writer and writes
Is own copy. Hasn't the slightest
lea how much money he is worth.
lrs. Warner tends to the finances.
He Is not demonstrative in football
Jason. Seldom gets off the bench,
here he smokes cigarettes incessant-
:. Only time the boys saw him give F;
snt to his emotions was after STAN
'rd lost to Southern California in
)28. There were a cOnnle If taar