Evening star., 1954-09-08
One Of Comes Greet Inventors
Football World Pays Tribute
ToPop Warner, Dead at SO
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College as his last official con-
nection with the game.
Tributes began to flow in
yesterday as soon as Warmers
death was announced. Today.
men who had known him in all
stages Of his long career had
added their bit to the record
of the illustrious coach.
Amos Alonzo Stagg. one of the
all-time football greats himself.
who still is active at 90 as ad-
visory coach at Stockton College,
said:
Pop was a great leader in
football and one of the excel
lent creators. He was not just
a coach. but helped develop part
Of the game"
"The greatest of the great. !"
declared Andy Kerr, who had
known and worked with Pop
since 1915.
Football owes him more than
any other man." added George
lefty James, head coach at
Cornell, where Pop played his
first game.
1--WE have lost marvellous
friend-one of the greatest
coaches of all time, who added
a lot to the game" said Clar-
ence (Biggie) Mum, athletic di-
rector at Michigan State.
The feelings of the younger
generation for the veteran were
summed up by Chuck Taylor,
present coach of Stanford.
THE coaching profession and
the game of football lost a truly
outstanding man." Taylor said.
I'VE at Stanford feel particularly
the loss of Pop Warner, our
greatest coach Pop reached
goal for which all coaches
strive, but few attain"
Masonic Rites Tomorrow.
Warmers widow, the former
Tibb Lorraine Smith; a niece,
Mrs. Jane Warner Scoffield of
Seattle, anad his long time
friends, Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Wink
elman of Palo Alto, were at
Warmers bedside when he passed
away. Winkelman was an assist
ant at Stanford when Warner
coached there from 1924 through
1850.
Funeral services, under the
auspices of the Masonic lodge,
will be held at 3 pm. tomorrow
at the Roller and Hapgood
Chapel here. and the body will
be returned to Springville for
burial.
F.. Warner recently requested that
any contributions be sent to the
Damon Runyan Cancer Fund,
rather than spent for flowers on
his death.
so Years in Game.
Warmers football career
spanned half a century from his
playing days at Cornell and on
to coach at Iowa State. Georgia,
Cornell, Carlisle - where the
great Thorpe was one of his
stars - Pittsburgh, Stanford.
Temple and San Jose State.
Warner was the great de-
veloper of the wingback and
double wingback style Of foot
ball, dubbed the Warner sys-
tenn" He stressed the unbal-
anced line. with linemen rum
ming interference. He introduced
the body block into game where
shoulder blocking had been the
vogue, and his three-point stance
for backs also became funda-
mental.
Pop was the first coach to
teach the spiral punt, and he
was one of the first to insist on
a spiral pass. With the single
wing he began using the direct
pass from center to the ball
carrier. Before that the quarter
back handled the ball on all
plays, as is done now since the
revival of the T-formation.
Baseball First Love.
Baseball was his early love,
and it wasn't until he entered
Cornell as a freshman in 1892
that he became acquainted with
football. In fact, he played in
game Cornell won over Syra-
cuse, $50, less than a week after
he was introduced to the game,
Warner was born on a farm
near Springville. in western
New York. April S, 1871, and got
his nickname of Pop" at Cor
nell, where he was older than
most of the other freshmen. He
stayed there three years, putting