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Red-faced, 220-lb. Glenn Scobey ("Pop") Warner of Stanford has a personal rivalry with U. S. C.'s Howard Jones no less bitter than the one between Stanford's track coach Robert Lyman Templeton and U. S. C.'s Dean Cromwell. It started in 1908 when Warner was coaching the Carlisle Indians and Jones was coach at Syracuse, over an argument about the length of the halves. Pop Warner's salary is $500 more than Jones's. He is supposed to receive further backing from Banker Herbert Fleishhacker of San Francisco whose huge son played on the team 1927-29. In 1925, the year that Howard Jones went to U. S. C., the Warner system, based on the idea of placing both halfbacks outside the end, first attracted wide attention. Since 1928 when Stanford beat Army 26 to 0 variations of the Warner system have come to be used by almost every coach. Stanford's Pop Warner has been a coach for 37 years. He is credited with inventing the crouching start for linemen. He walks with a limp. Reporters dislike him because he is closemouthed. At games he concentrates on his "system," lets his assistants make all substitutions. Warner amusements: making golf sticks and protective apparatus for his players, in a workshop behind his house; painting (like Illinois' famed Bob Zuppke). which he learned from a village sign-painter. His record at Stanford since 1924 is won 64, lost 11, tied 7.
Notre Dame this year scored a point a minute until last fortnight when it was beaten by Pitt, 12 to 0. This was an appalling surprise for Notre Dame's Coach Heartly ("Hunk") Anderson, who succeeded the late Knute Rockne last year. Last week, before Notre Dame beat Kansas, 24 to 6, he refused to let his players read newspapers, lest they be made vain. Notre Dame's line coach before Knute Rockne's death, Coach Anderson played guard on Notre Dame teams from 1919 to 1922. He uses the Rockne System without variations, has 140 plays in his repertoire this year. Notre Dame's Athletic Director Jesse Harper last week denied reports that there would be a new head coach at Notre Dame next year. Columbia's Coach Lou Little, acquired from Georgetown in 1930, has a nose as large and hooked as that of the bronze Columbia Lion which overlooks his practice field. He was an All-American tackle for Penn in 1916, again in 1919 when he returned from the War. His record since 1925, at Georgetown and Columbia: won 49, lost 13, tied 4. Columbia has lost no games this year. Coach Little's salary—estimated $17,500—is the highest for a football coach in the U. S.