“The remarkable exodus of football players in 1893 and again last year leaves Warner the veteran of the team, and when the men were asked to select a captain yesterday, they picked ‘Pop’ Warner to lead them for the season,” stated The Springfield Journal. It was at this point that several publications reprinted telegrams from Ithaca, New York in which Warner was presented with a fresh new moniker. In 1894, Warner was elected as captain of the Cornell football team, owing largely to the fact that he was the most senior player on a Big Red squad that was described in multiple publications as “green” due to the influx of so many youthful 18-year-old freshmen, which caused Warner to stand out all the more as a 23-year-old senior. Warner has proved himself a strong runner with the ball and plows into the opposing rush like a locomotive leaving heaps of scattered players in his wake.” Glenn “Pop” Warner at Cornell A year later, it reprinted an analysis of his football prowess from The Cornell Daily News: “Nature has spared nothing in his make-up, and he is an adornment to any football field. He first received public attention in 1892 when his hometown newspaper, The Springville Journal, reported that he’d enrolled at Cornell University. The story of Glenn Scobey “Pop” Warner presents a compelling case of a nickname becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy, setting the recipient along a winding path upon which a jab evolved into an earned, honorific title, and culminated in an enduring surrogate fatherhood of youth around the world. In doing so, we hope to come out the other side with a better understanding of our own - and everyone else’s - daddy issues. We’ll talk to famous dads and their equally famous progeny and also deconstruct fatherly influence in each and every one of its forms.
Welcome to The Daddy Issue, our very fatherly tip of the cap to the father figures in our lives as well as all the fatherly stuff they can’t help but do - from pretending they’re not asleep on the couch, to the dad jokes that make even Tony Soprano smile.
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