The focus of this discourse is the remarkable contributions of Pop Warner to the realm of American football, particularly during the seasons of 1915 and 1916. We delve into the significance of Warner’s coaching tenure at the Carlisle Indian School, where he innovatively transformed a small and underprivileged team into a powerhouse that challenged more affluent rivals. The discussion further encompasses Warner's subsequent move to the University of Pittsburgh, where his methodologies continued to yield extraordinary results, solidifying his legacy in the annals of football history. Additionally, we reflect upon the competitive landscape of college football during these years, highlighting the co-national champions of 1915, which included Pittsburgh and Cornell, among others. Join us as we traverse through pivotal moments in football history, examining the profound impact of a coaching legend whose innovations have reverberated through the ages.

Our journey through football history on a year-by-year basis takes us to 1915. In part 34 of the Football History Rewind, we take a closer look at Pop Warner and the best teams in football in 1915.

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And we are in our history year by year.

Mark our football History rewind part number 34.

In this series, it takes you back through all the history of football, a good overlook of what happened and the eventful items of each season.

There are quite a few men from early eras of football that had significant contributions to the games and its rules.

The list is much shorter though for those men that had added such a wide sweeping change is that their names live on a century later.

Pop Warner is one of those individuals that really gave this beloved game of ours some really innovative twists.

And we've talked quite a bit about Pop Warner on some really recent interviews.

You can look back at pigskindispatch.com, go in the search box and put in Pop Warner.

You'll see what we're talking about.

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And it's for this reason we've waited until now to Give Coach Warner his proper due credit in our football history.

Rewind now.

Glenn S. Warner, the God given name to a legend that is more commonly known by Pop to those who knew them and in the history books.

And it was during that time of his coaching tenure where Carlis Pop Warner made a name for himself.

Only Native Americans could attend the small school.

So Pop really made a name for himself when he took this small ragtag bunch of natives who were looked down upon by those of the European heritage and played with success against schools that were much larger and wealthier, with many more men to draw from.

But for their football players, as the turn of the century, Carlisle had about 250 college age men attending their institution as opposed to the larger eastern schools which had four to five thousand to draw from.

To gain some perspective, Carlisle was, under Warner's coaching career had an average of three substitutes for each game.

That's remarkable.

Only 15 players aside, that would mean how did small school compete with the big schools, you may ask?

Well, Carlisle did not sit back on his laurels to note that they what they did not have, they simply took what they did have and put it to use in its full potential.

Carlisle had a coach that understood the game and could innovate with the best of them.

They also had great athletes.

Does the name Jim Thorpe explain just how good the athletes were?

Well, the third advantage Carlisle had over their schools was the desire to win.

Warner recognized it was not just to win, but to defeat the white man in a place where the battlefield was equal.

The American Indians had little to boast about in that era.

Their land had been taken over by the white invaders and along with much of their culture, the football field provided a place for the downtrodden ethnic group to be equal to that of everyone else.

They were playing.

They could not economically or socially compete with the white man at this time, but they could defeat them at this athletic enterprise.

They felt the Indian had his first even break and the record proves that they took full advantage of it.

And when they did in the first season at Carlisle, the only games Warner could schedule for his squad were on the road.

That season they defeated powerhouse schools such as Penn 16:5, Columbia 45:0.

And in San Francisco they defeated California 2 to 0.

These were the only points scored on Cal that entire season was those five points by Penn.

The Columbia win is very significant and a real testament to Warner's innovation of preparedness.

Columbia had a very good halfback named Harold the Hurdler Weeks.

What a great name.

Weeks made a real name for himself in those days due to a play that Columbia ran in which he would step on the backs of the closely gathered linemen and then literally hurdled the defensive rushers and landed on full stride on the other side.

Warner had his players use a questionable but effective tactic of jamming the heels of their hands into the face and gut of Weeks which was understandably slowed him down considerably.

They also used the tactics which made its debut in football during that game, the three point stance.

Pop also planned an offensive shift for the first time in football history during this game as a score of the game indicated Columbia did not even know what hit them.

They had two very staples of the game introduced the football football world at the same time.

And Warner.

Yeah, he's a genius.

You would think by talking about Pop Warner so much that we would have Carlisle as the best team in the land.

Well, almost, but not quite.

In it the legendary father of football Walter Camp was interviewed and he said quote the shift of Coach Warner from Carlisle Indians to the University of Pittsburgh marks one of the great changes in the status of the game.

It should prove very interesting experiment for Pittsburgh and one with great possibilities.

Camp was pretty much right on the money in this prediction.

The official NCAA Division 1 football records book lists schools Cornell, Oklahoma and Pittsburgh as having been been selected as the co national champions.

Pitt was truly it as the old motto goes.

The mixture of talent and great innovative coaching put Pitt on the map that season.

Well, Cornell, interesting enough another former place where Warner coached at also made some noise in the collegiate football scene, also posting a perfect 9, 0 record.

They defeated Harvard and Penn among others that season.

The Sooners went 100 overall by beating Texas by 1, 14, 13 and then a tough Kendall Orgen Black team by the same score.

They were 30 in the Southwest Conference tied with Baylor.

Baylor, however, had an independent loss and finished 7 and 1.

The Tigers were quite the powerhouse and the Bulldogs, well they signed a young guy named Jim Thorpe to play for $250 a game.

They didn't play Canton or Massillon or not many of the same teams that they even did not the same level of competition.

So Canton and Maslin, the next two contenders, well they tied at five, two and two records as Canton and Maslin.

They split their head to head matches that season and the records are incomplete for football.

1916 As we alluded to just a little bit, even has some more great things happening.

So we'll come back to that with our next edition of the Football history Rewind part number 35 found here only on Pigskin Dispatch.

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