Sport: Pop's Game

Records of the class of 1894 at Cornell University list Glenn Scobey Warner as a law student. But as a law student, husky, alert Glenn Warner chafed at the legalisms of case books and lectures. So Warner went elsewhere for his mental work outs. In that era of knock-'em-down, drag-'em-out play, the burly (215 Ibs.) undergraduate set out to prove to Cornell and the world that brains mean as much as brawn in winning football games.

Older than, most of his classmates, Glenn Warner was naturally nicknamed "Pop." He had never played football before, and he developed a beginner's taste for trick...

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