ABOUT US
Howell Pop Warner
Football and Cheer
SAFETY FIRST
Kids compete with kids of similar age and size.
Pop Warner is the ONLY youth football program (local, regional and national) that sets and enforces a strict AGE & WEIGHT MATRIX that reduces the risk and reality of injuries.
Did you know that Pop Warner football is safer than soccer?
Pop Warner football has 12% fewer injuries per capita among 5-15 year olds than organized soccer in the same age range!
(U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, NEISS)
WHY THERE ARE NO PERSONAL STATISTICS
Pop Warner exists to use football, cheerleading, dance and a respect for education to develop strong, smart, responsible, healthy young men and women. We give them experiences that build their appreciation for and understanding of leadership, teamwork, and discipline.
While individual statistics may be more common, particularly among older football players, Pop Warner only recognizes the athletic accomplishments of the team, not the individual. We don't track personal tallies of touchdowns or yards rushing per game. We don't count sacks or blocked kicks. We applaud the athletic efforts of the team to reinforce the importance of teamwork, with each member.
We don't try to build stars. We don't want to over-inflate a young ego, nor do we want to risk injuring the self-esteem of a young person. Whether our kids have good days or bad, they are still an integral part of our team…and always will be.
THE HISTORY OF POP WARNER
Pop Warner football has been around since the inception of the league in 1929 by founder Joseph J. Tomlin as a four-team conference in Northeast Philadelphia.
The organization was named after Glenn Scobey "Pop" Warner, a prominent football coach. "Pop" Warner was an American college football coach who became the first man to exceed 300 coaching victories. His innovations in equipment (thigh and shoulder pads and lightweight uniforms designed for speed), practice tools (tackling dummies and blocking sleds) as well as game strategies laid the groundwork for football as we recognize it today. Warner is credited for introducing to the game – the trap run, bootleg, end arounds, naked reverse, reverse handoffs on kickoffs, screen pass, spiral passes and punts, etc. He was inducted as a coach into the College Football Hall of Fame as part of its inaugural class in 1951.
Pop Warner began as a youth football program to promote sportsmanship and teamwork. Since then, the program has expanded to include cheerleading and dance. Today, Pop Warner serves over 425,000 youth participants across the United States.