The Resume

(April 5, 1871-September 7, 1954)
Born in Springville, New York
Birth name was Glenn Scobey Warner
Coached teams to four national championships (1915, 1916, 1918, and 1926)
Head coach at the University of Georgia (1895 – 96), Iowa Agricultural College & Model Farm (1895 – 99), Cornell University (1897 – 98, 1904 – 06), Carlisle (1899– 1903, 1907 – 14), Pittsburgh (1915 – 23), Stanford (1924 – 32) and Temple University (1933 – 38)
Record: 319–106–32
Inaugural Inductee of the College Football Hall of Fame (1951)
Namesake for the Pop Warner Little Scholars

Why he might be annoying:

As a kid, his nickname was 'butter.'
He was into watercolor painting.
He smoked Turkish Trophy cigarettes.
He had his trainers supply him with 'cough medicine' (AKA grain alcohol).
He coached for an off-reservation Indian reeducation boarding school.
He got the nickname 'Pop' while playing football for Cornell because he was much older then his fellow teammates.

Why he might not be annoying:

He coached Jim Thorpe.
He innovated single/double wing formations (basically what would become spread and shotgun formations).
He innovated the three point stance and the body blocking technique in football.
He is credited with the idea for 'numbering' players jerseys and for devising the use of shoulder and thigh pads.
Amos Alonzo Stagg called him 'one of the excellent creators.'
He had the most wins of any coach in college football history until Bear Bryant.
He put himself through college with his painting (he also ran a wood-shop out of his garage).
The Pop Warner Youth Football League, started in 1929, was the first to allow kids (eleven to fourteen) to participate in an organized youth-football program.

Credit: BoyWiththeGreenHair

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• BoyWiththeGreenHair’s Profiles [Series 14]
• Celebrities Who Think They Can Paint
• Football Players
• I am on a U.S. Postage Stamp [U-Z]
• Look at Me, I'm Postage
• Look at Me, My Picture Is Art
• NCAA Football Champion Coaches (Ranked: 1915)
• NCAA Football Champion Coaches (Ranked: 1916)
• NCAA Football Champion Coaches (Ranked: 1918)
• NCAA Football Champion Coaches (Ranked: 1926)
• Profiles 46251-46500 (Ranked: 46258)
• Sport Coaches/Managers
• We Died on the Same Day (Ranked: 19540907)

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 6 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 10 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying