Pop Warner: the coach

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  1. avvie

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    I had always associated the name Pop Warner to the children's football leagues and the derivitive insult when applied to pro football, but I was just listening to a podcast about the history of football and this guy was an enormous legend, and primarily by coaching a team that was created as a civil rights and anthropological issue. The rule book basically exists and began because of this guy. He invented the trick play to seek out every possible advantage his Carlisle Indian Industrial School team could have over the mighty Yale adversaries...this included sewing leather football-shaped patches onto the front of the jersey so the opponent couldn't tell who had the ball and sewing pockets into the jersey to make the ball "disappear" and reappear thirty years downfield from the scrum ( this was still during the rugbyish period). It was his play that defeated Yale and created the "player may not re-enter the field" rule. When the throwing of the ball was made legal he was the one who figured out that the spiral was the best way to throw the ball for the least resistance (again, this was a clumsy rugby ball).
    According to these historians, early football was used as a way to fill the void in man's warrior nature after the native American wars ended. Colleges such as Yale were not filled with pencil-necked geeks but rather the best examples of both intellectual and physical capacity. General Richard Pratt in his own weird way wanted to save the native American from what he saw as extinction so he gathered some NAs up, gave them clothes and haircuts to "whitify" them (motto: "Kill the Indian; Save the Man". My people make me so proud) and after some adjustments created a football team who's mission was to beat Yale. They almost did, but a corrupt Yale ref called their winning play back. The crowd gave them a standing ovation when they left the field out of respect. Soon after Warner was hired to coach this team into defeating Yale and it's referees.
    Good times.
     
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  2. A.D.

    A.D. It's (insert day of week here) & Colts still SUCK Staff

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    Warner's main contribution to football was his invention of the single-wing formation. When the Dolphins started running "the Wildcat" formation about 6-8 years ago, lots of kids thought it was something new. It wasn't; it was just Pop Warner's single-wing, which was invented almost 100 years earlier.

    Warner will probably be best known though for coaching Jim Thorpe.
     
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