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Pop Warner

Pop Warner held Temple at National Program II for 3 seasons.

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1936–1938 · 1 stint
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Career arc

His real stature score, season by season, across every program he’s coached — so a stretch that stays in one tier the whole way can still climb or sink on the line, not just flatten out. Node color marks the tier reached. Which program a stretch belongs to is carried by the shaded lane behind it.

Stature score reached, by season of his head-coaching careerTEMPLENational Programrespectable, streakyRegional Programthe building-block levelTemple, 1936: 6-3, National Program II1936Temple, 1937: 3-2, National Program II1937Temple, 1938: 3-6, National Program III1938+0.0One point per coached season, in career order; dashed segments are program changes — spacing is not proportional to calendar time

Reached National Program in his 1st career season — faster than 41% of the 675 FBS coaches who have ever reached National Program (rank #1 of 675 by seasons-to-arrival).

Temple, 3 seasons
+0.0
National Program II → National Program III.

The big-game ledger

How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.

Winless in 3 tries against Charlie Bachman.

One-score games
3–1–4
37.5% · margin ≤8
vs. Blue Blood or better
0–1
0.0%
The toughest matchup
vs. Charlie Bachman0–2–1
3 meetings, 1936–1938
’36 T’37 L’38 L
0% win rate across a real, 3-meeting series — short of the bar this site uses before badging a series “Nemesis.” Shown here as the toughest matchup on record, not an algorithmic crown.
Performance by opponent class
Blue Blood
0–1 0.0%
Power Program
0–2 0.0%
National Program
1–3 25.0%
Regional Program
2–1 66.7%

Coaching career

1936–1938
Templecaretaker
National Program II
Pop Warner held Temple at National Program II for 3 seasons.

1st-best Temple tenure of 18 by the numbers.

Succeeded by Fred Swan (1939–1939).

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