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The current official logo of the Pop Warner Little Scholars.
The current official logo of the Pop Warner Little Scholars.


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Overview

Pop Warner Little Scholars (also known as Pop Warner, Pop Warner Football, and Junior Football Conference) is a non-profit organization that provides youth American football, cheerleading & dance programs for participants in 43 U.S. states and several countries around the world. American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive Team sport known for mixing strategy with Cheerleading is a Sport that uses organized routines made from elements of Tumbling, Dance, jumps and stunting to direct spectators of events Dance (from French danser, perhaps from Frankish) is an Art form that generally refers to movement of the body usually rhythmic A US state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of the United States of America that share Sovereignty with the federal government Consisting of approximately 400,000+ young people ranging from ages 5 to 16 years old, Pop Warner is the largest and oldest national youth football, cheer and dance organization in the United States. It is also the only youth sports organization with an academic requirement.

History

Pop Warner Little Scholars was founded in 1929 by Joseph J. Tomlin after noticing an increase of youth vandalism in the northeastern part of Philadelphia. Philadelphia (ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə It was first called Junior Football Conference but later changed its named to Pop Warner Conference after American football coach, Glenn Scobey "Pop" Warner joined the organization. Glenn Scobey Warner ( April 5, 1871 &ndash September 7, 1954) was an American football coach also known as Pop Warner. By 1938, the Pop Warner Conference had 157 teams which represents neighborhoods in big cities and towns with most of the players were at least 15 years old and a few were over 30. Competitions were determined by top weights only, except for the youngest kids. When World War II arrived, the Pop Warner Conference lost most of their older players and only 42 teams remained. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The organization had over 100 teams after the war.

In 1959, Pop Warner Conference became a non-profit organization and was renamed to Pop Warner Little Scholars. The popularity of Pop Warner football led to a Walt Disney produced two-hour television show called, "Moochie of Pop Warner Football" on ABC in 1960. Walter Elias Disney (December 5 1901 – December 15 1966 was a multiple Academy Award -winning American Film producer, director, Screenwriter The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC) is an American Television network. Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. By the 1960s, the organization had over 3,000 teams.

In the 1970s, Pop Warner expanded into a cheerleading program for girls. In 1983, a flag football program was offered. Flag football is a version of American football that is popular in North America. As of 2005, Pop Warner Little Scholars has over 150,000 5-16 year old boys and girls participating in their programs in the United States. In addition, they have teams in Mexico and Japan making the estimated current total over 5,000 Pop Warner football teams. The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics.

Every December, Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex hosts the Pop Warner football National Championship (referred to as the Pop Warner Super Bowl). Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex is a 220 Acre (89 ha) athletic complex located in the Walt Disney World Resort. Teams are divided into A,B,and C divisions. 64 football teams compete for the National Championship in 4 different age/weight ranges (Jr. Pee Wee, Pee Wee, Jr. Midget & Midget). Three more age/weight classes have been added to Pop Warner Football (Might Mite, Junior Bantam and Bantam).

Midget Division I National champions

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