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About the Kenai Peninsula Pop Warner Association

We had a great season last year with our Midget Division taking the State Champion Trophy and competing in the Regional games in Santa Clara, CA in 2009! Several of our lower divisions competed in the playoffs in Anchorage also. Welcome to all of you who are new to our organization and a special thanks to those who are returning.

KPPW is open to kids living within our association boundaries. This includes the area from Cooper Landing to Sterling and Soldotna, Clam Gulch, Kasilof and Nikiski to Kenai. If there are any questions please contact us thru our website.

KPPW is open to anyone age 5-15 (league age is your age on July 31, 2010). Placement in a particular division is based on a combination of age/weight matrix, first registered, first placed, player preference and the needs of the organization to equalize the number of players in each division. We will do our best to place your player on a team she/he is qualified for, but the decision by the Board is final.

We have been providing youth football to the Kenai/Soldotna area for 20 years. We are a dedicated group of all-volunteer parents working year round to provide a safe, fun football program. We need parent support as volunteers for the Board, Coaches, Assistant Coaches, Team Mom/Managers,Cheer Director/Squad Coaches and Fundraising activities. Please contact us if you would like to help out in any way!

The Kenai Peninsula Pop Warner League is comprised of the Kenai Peninsula Pop Warner Association (located in the Kenai/Soldotna and surrounding area) and the South Peninsula Pop Warner Association which is located in Homer and surrounding areas. Contact SPPWA at homer.raiders@yahoo.com.

We have only these two teams currently on the Peninsula, so the Anchorage Pop Warner League travels to the Peninsula and we travel to Anchorage for increased playing experience.   We hope to register enough Kenai/Nikiski players to field a Kenai team in addition to last year’s Soldotna Saints divisions. We need volunteers and coaches for this to happen! Contact us if you are interested! [top]

About Glenn "Pop" Warner

Many have asked, "Who has had the greatest influence on the game of football and the NFL?". Almost all would respond, "Glenn S. (Pop) Warner".

"Pop Warner" was born April 5, 1871 in Springville, New York. He attended Cornell University, where he graduated in 1894 with a law degree. At Cornell, Warner also played football. As captain of the football team, he got the nickname "Pop" because he was older than most of his teammates.

In 1895, the University of Georgia hired Warner as its new football coach at a salary of $340 for ten weeks. He arrived in Athens on September 15, 1895, homesick and discouraged after seeing the sports facilities and staff at his disposal. At the time, the University of Georgia had no athletic facilities, playing field, or stands. In fact, the only place for playing football or any other sport was a bare field behind New College where rocks stuck out of the red clay. In 1895, the University of Georgia's entire student body consisted of just 248 students, and only 13 of those showed up to play football. As a result, Warner's first team - the 1895 squad - had 3 wins against 4 loses. Warner was rehired for the 1896 season at a salary of $40 per week. The Warner's last Georgia team went - 4-0, giving the University of Georgia its first undefeated season.

After Georgia, Warner returned to Cornell to coach football for two seasons. He then coached at the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania for five years, returned to Cornell for three seasons, and returned again to Carlisle in 1907--the same year as Jim Thorpe arrived. Warner went to the University of Pittsburgh in 1914, coaching his teams to 33 straight victories and two national championships. Next, Warner coached at Stanford, where his teams won three Rose Bowl championships. In 1933, he took his final coaching job at Temple University with only one losing season before retiring in 1938.

During his four decades as a coach, Warner brought many innovations to college football, including the spiral punt, the screen play, single- and double-wing formations, the naked reverse, the three-point stance, numbering players' jerseys, and the use of shoulder and thigh pads. But to many Americans, Warner is best remembered for starting the Pop Warner Youth Football League in 1929. On September 7, 1954, Pop Warner died in Palo Alto, California. [top]

Our Philosophy

The following is an excerpt from the Pop Warner Official Rules:

Pop Warner Football is an international program operated for the benefit of its youthful participants. Since 1929, the program's philosophy has been: Academics and athletics go hand-in-hand. At every level, Pop Warner Football seeks to develop well-rounded young men and women who learn not only the fundamentals of football or cheerleading, but also the importance of education, in an atmosphere conducive to developing sound mind, body and character - and having a good time along the way!

The general objectives of Pop Warner Football are to inspire youth, regardless of race, creed or national origin, to practice the ideals of sportsmanship, scholarship, and physical fitness, as reflected in the life of the late Glenn Scobie "Pop" Warner.

Pop Warner strives to make the game "fun" for all boys and girls. Coaches must constantly keep in mind the ages of the participants. The program stresses learning lessons of value far beyond the playing or cheering days of the boys and girls involved, such as: self-discipline, teamwork, concentration, friendship, leadership and good sportsmanship.

With such goals in mind, and by providing an opportunity to participate in an organized, supervised environment with emphasis on maximum safety and participation, Pop Warner Football offers young men and women a unique experience.[top]

KP Pop Warner Board Members

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Risk Management

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Kenai Peninsula Pop Warner Association | PO Box 1153, Soldotna, Alaska 99669-1153