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