Warren Steller

Warren Steller
Biographical details
Born	October 8, 1897
Died	August 6, 1974 (aged 76); Bowling Green, Ohio, U.S.
Playing career
Football
1917	Oberlin
1919	Oberlin
Basketball
1917–1918	Oberlin
Baseball
c. 1918	Oberlin
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1924–1934	Bowling Green
Basketball
1922–1923	Wesleyan
1924–1925	Bowling Green
Baseball
1923	Wesleyan
1925	Bowling Green
1928–1959	Bowling Green
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1924–1941	Bowling Green
Head coaching record
Overall	40–21–19 (football); 18–12 (basketball); 228–164 (baseball)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
	Football; 3 Northwest Ohio League (1925, 1928–1929)

Warren E. Steller (October 8, 1897 – August 6, 1974) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Bowling Green State Normal School—now known as Bowling Green State University—from 1924 to 1934, compiling a record of 40–21–19. Steller was also the head basketball coach at Wesleyan University in 1922–23 and at Bowling Green in 1924–25, tallying a career college basketball mark of 18–12. In addition, he was the head baseball coach at Wesleyan in 1923 and at Bowling Green in 1925 and again from 1928 to 1959, amassing a career college baseball record of 228–164. Steller attended Oberlin College, where he played football, basketball, and baseball, and is considered one of the finest athletes ever to play for the Yeoman. In 1921, the Oberlin football team beat Ohio State, 7–6, the last time an intrastate opponent beat Ohio State. Steller scored the winning touchdown. In 1965, Bowling Green renamed its baseball stadium Warren E. Steller Field in dedication to the former coach.^[1]

Playing career

In 1921, Oberlin's football team beat Ohio State, 7–6, at Columbus. The Ohio State team had gone to the Rose Bowl the previous season. That was the last time an intrastate team beat Ohio State. Steller scored the winning touchdown after the team made an 85-yard march down the field in the third quarter, culminating in a short pass across the goal line and a point-after. Ohio State's coach, John Wilce, was so upset by the loss that he made his squad stay on the field after the game for a special practice session.^[2]

Coaching career

Steller's 1944 baseball team at Bowling Green was Ohio college champions.

Head coaching record

Football


Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing
Bowling Green Normals/Falcons (Northwest Ohio League) (1924–1931)
1924	Bowling Green	3–4	2–2
1925	Bowling Green	3–1–3	2–0–1	1st
1926	Bowling Green	4–3–1	2–1	2nd
1927	Bowling Green	5–1–1	2–1	2nd
1928	Bowling Green	5–0–2	3–0–1	1st
1929	Bowling Green	4–2–1	3–0–1	T–1st
1930	Bowling Green	6–0–2	2–0–2	2nd
1931	Bowling Green	3–1–4	0–1–2	3rd
Bowling Green Falcons (Independent) (1932)
1932	Bowling Green	3–3–1
Bowling Green Falcons (Ohio Athletic Conference) (1933–1934)
1933	Bowling Green	2–3–2	1–3–2	16th
1934	Bowling Green	2–3–2	2–3–2	T–12th
Bowling Green:		40–21–19	19–11–11
Total:		40–21–19
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth

References

^ "BGSU Historical Campus Tour - Warren E. Steller Field". Bowling Green State University. Archived from the original on April 15, 2008. Retrieved April 27, 2008.
^ When Oberlin Was King of The Gridiron: the Heisman Years by Nat Brandt

External links

Warren Steller at Find a Grave

[1] "BGSU Historical Campus Tour - Warren E. Steller Field". Bowling Green State University. Archived from the original on April 15, 2008. Retrieved April 27, 2008.

[2] When Oberlin Was King of The Gridiron: the Heisman Years by Nat Brandt

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