elcome back to the series that takes you through the history of the rules of football. The last article, Part XXXV, left off in the seasons of 1914 and 1915. Let's pick up with 1916. (How's that for logic?)

There are quite a few men from the early era of American Football who made significant contributions to the game and its rules. The list is much shorter, though, if we include only the giants whose names live on, nearly a century later. Pop Warner is one of those.

If you're at all familiar with the history of our game, you may be asking yourself: "Didn’t Pop Warner come onto the football scene much earlier than 1916?" You would be correct: He did make a mark in the game earlier, but it was in 1916 when Coach Warner himself proclaimed that this was his best team ever. It is for this reason that we have waited until now to give Coach Warner his proper credit.