New Book Celebrates 75-Year
History of Pop Warner www.popwarner.com
Images
of America: Pop Warner Little Scholars is a new book
that celebrates the 75 Year Anniversary of the world's largest
youth football and cheerleading organization through amazing
never seen before photos and captions. View some of the very
first photos of the organization, dating all the way back
to 1929! This book contains 128 pages full of photos and captions
throughout 8 chapters. These are the chapters covered in the
book:
Chapter
1: The Beginning Years
Features images and captions from the first 30 years of the
program (1929-1959). This chapter contains some never seen
before photos from the early years.
Chapter 2: Glenn S. Pop Warner
Discover the man whom the company was named after. View shots
of Pop throughout his life, from college at Cornell, to teaching
Jim Thorpe and throughout his career as one of the greatest
coaches of all time.
Chapter 3: Pop Warner founder Joe Tomlin
Learn about the man who made it all happen. Tomlin started
the organization as a four-team league in 1929 and never looked
back.
Chapter 4: 50-Year Anniversary Banquet (1979)
A Gala event was held in 1979 to commemorate the 50 year anniversary
of Pop Warner football and cheerleading. See photos of all
the greats who were on hand including Eddie Robinson, Don
Shula, Dick Vermeil and many more.
Chapter 5: Pop Warner "Little Scholar" (Scholastic
Program)
Discover all there is to know about the Little Scholars program.
See photos of the earliest All-American teams (1951) and how
the program has grown.
Chapter 6: National Awards Program (Banquets &
Awards)
Pop Warner has honored some of the greatest athletes of all
times at the National Awards Banquet. From the likes of Emmitt
Smith, Dick Butkus, Gale Sayers, see photos from when they
accepted their awards.
Chapter 7: Key Moments in Pop Warner History
This chapter illustrated some of the main moments in Pop Warner
History: the first female football coach, the begnning of
the cheer & dance program, the first international team,
and much, much more.
Chapter 8: Pop Warner Today
Here we are, 75 years later. The organization has grown from
100 football players in 1929 to over 360,000 football players,
cheerleaders and dancers from all over the globe.
This book
is a tremendous collector's item for anyone who has ever been
involved in the Pop Warner Little Scholars program. Images
of America: Pop Warner Little Scholars
is published by Arcadia
Publishing, who have produced many Image Series books
over the years.
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From the Book:
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Pop
Warner Little Scholars, commonly known as Pop Warner, began
in the suburbs of Philadelphia as a four-team league called
the Junior Football Conference. Sports enthusiast Joseph Tomlin
established the league in 1929. The organization was renamed
in 1934 in honor of legendary football coach Glenn S. “Pop”
Warner and has blossomed into the largest national youth football
and cheerleading organization in the United States. Pop Warner
has rejuvenated participation in youth sports by instilling
lifelong values of teamwork and dedication with an emphasis
on academic excellence to complement and enhance the athletics.
Pop Warner Little Scholars offers an inside look at the history
of one of America’s oldest youth sports organizations.
Approximately sixty-five percent of National Football League
players and coaches were at one time involved in the Pop Warner
program. Important moments in the organization’s history
are depicted throughout the book, including the first national
championship game in 1947, the beginning of the scholastic
recognition program in 1960, and the official organization
of its cheerleading program in 1973, although it was a part
of Pop Warner for decades. The organization’s two major
national events, the Scholar All-American Program and the
Pop Warner Super Bowl, Cheer, and Dance championships, serve
as the highlights of the year for young scholar-athletes.
About
the Book:
POP
WARNER LITTLE SCHOLARS
Author: JOEL D. BALTHASER
Format: TRADE PAPERBACK
ISBN: 0738535052
Pages: 128
Series: IMAGES OF AMERICA
State: PA
Availablity: On Sale Now
