Cornell University Athletics

Warner participated in varsity football, track and field, and boxing at Cornell. He was Cornell's heavyweight boxing champion in 1893. He was a football guard without any previous training (1892-94). He coached the Cornell varsity football team in 1897 and 1898 and again from 1904-06. He also coached football at Georgia, Carlisle (where he coached Jim Thorpe), Pittsburgh, Stanford and Temple. While at Stanford, his teams appeared in three Rose Bowls. His overall 44-year coaching record was 312-104-32. Warner and Amos Alonzo Stagg are considered to be football's greatest innovators. Warner introduced single-wing, double-wingback formations, numbering of players, huddle, rolling body block, headgear, spiral punt and the blocking dummy. He developed 44 All-Americans during his coaching career and is a member of the Citizens Savings Hall of Fame and the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame.