Warren Steller Explained

Warren Steller
Birth Date:8 October 1897
Death Place:Bowling Green, Ohio, U.S.
Player Sport1:Football
Player Years2:1917
Player Team2:Oberlin
Player Years3:1919
Player Team3:Oberlin
Player Sport4:Basketball
Player Years5:1917–1918
Player Team5:Oberlin
Player Sport6:Baseball
Player Years7:c. 1918
Player Team7:Oberlin
Coach Sport1:Football
Coach Years2:1924–1934
Coach Team2:Bowling Green
Coach Sport3:Basketball
Coach Years4:1922–1923
Coach Team4:Wesleyan
Coach Years5:1924–1925
Coach Team5:Bowling Green
Coach Sport6:Baseball
Coach Years7:1923
Coach Team7:Wesleyan
Coach Years8:1925
Coach Team8:Bowling Green
Coach Years9:1928–1959
Coach Team9:Bowling Green
Admin Years1:1924–1941
Admin Team1:Bowling Green
Overall Record:40–21–19 (football)
18–12 (basketball)
228–164 (baseball)
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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: BGSU Historical Campus Tour - Warren E. Steller Field. Bowling Green State University . April 27, 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080415081558/http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/cac/uarchives/stf.html . April 15, 2008.
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=_18He2N-3gcC&q=oberlin+vs.+ohio+state+football When Oberlin Was King of The Gridiron: the Heisman Years by Nat Brandt