A COURSE in FOOTBALL for PLAYERS and COACHES (1912)

Glenn Scobey "Pop" Warner ( 1871 – 1954), most commonly known as Pop Warner, was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Georgia (1895–1896), Cornell University (1897–1898, 1904–1906), the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1899–1903, 1907–1914), the University of Pittsburgh (1915–1923), Stanford University (1924–1932), and Temple University (1933–1938), compiling a career college football record of 319–106–32. Warner coached four teams to national championships: in 1915, 1916, and 1918 with Pittsburgh and in 1926 with Stanford. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1951.
He gained fame for making tiny Carlisle a football power and coaching such outstanding athletes as Jim Thorpe. Under Warner's direction, Carlisle played and defeated such powerhouses as Harvard, Pennsylvania, and Chicago. Led by the legendary Thorpe at halfback, Warner's 1911 and 1912 squads gained recognition as being among the strongest teams in the East.

Warner brought many innovative playing mechanics to college football:

the screen pass
spiral punt
single- and double-wing formations
the use of shoulder and thigh pads.
designed helmets

CONTENTS.
How Players Should be Outfitted
How to Train and How to Treat and Protect Injuries
How to Make and Use Tackling Apparatus and Charging Sleds 14-19
Tackling
Falling on the Ball
Blocking and Interfering
Punting
Forward Passing
Judging and Catching Punts
Place Kicking
Goal Kicking after Touchdown
Kick Off
Drop Kicking
How to Play End
How to Play Tackle
How to Play the Position of Guard
How to Play Center
How to Play Quarter-back
How to Play Half-back and Full-back
Football Practice
System of Signals
Generalship
Offense
Defense

This book originally published in 1912 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.