Chester Clyde "Fatty" Warren (September 21, 1898 – 1946) was a

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player.

Early years

Warren was born September 21, 1898, in Coal City, Alabama, near

Pell City Pell City is a city in and one of the county seats of St. Clair County, Alabama, United States, other seat being Ashville. At the 2020 census, the population was 12,939. At the 2010 census, the city-limit population jumped to 12,695. It was hom ...

in St. Clair County, Alabama, the son of George Washington Warren and Mary Frances Savage. Fatty Warren

Auburn University

He was a prominent

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for

Mike Donahue Michael Joseph "Iron Mike" Donahue (June 14, 1876 – December 11, 1960) was an American football player, coach of football, basketball, baseball, tennis, track, soccer, and golf, and a college athletics administrator. He served as the head fo ...

Auburn Tigers The Auburn Tigers are the athletic teams representing Auburn University, a public four-year coeducational university located in Auburn, Alabama, United States. The Auburn Tigers compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Associat ...

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from

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to 1920.

1919

Warren was a prominent member of the

Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) was one of the first collegiate athletic conferences in the United States. Twenty-seven of the current Division I FBS (formerly Division I-A) football programs were members of this conferen ...

(SIAA) champion 1919 team. Warren "waddled" for a 40-yard touchdown off a blocked punt in the victory over

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, the game which netted the championship and gave Tech its first loss to an SIAA school in five years, since Auburn won in

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. It was

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's last game at Georgia Tech.

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sent All-Southern tackle

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a telegram after the defeat of

for the SIAA championship, it read:

"Shooting a seven, aren’t we awfully proud of the boys, give them my love—knew we could."

She signed it "Zelder Sayre."

1920

Noah Caton and Warren anchored the line for Auburn on the 1920 team, one of Auburn's greatest teams, which scored 42.5 points per game despite being shut out twice, and set a school record with 332 points in nine games. Warren also kicked the extra points. He was selected All-Southern.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Warren, Fatty American football guards Auburn Tigers football players All-Southern college football players People from St. Clair County, Alabama Players of American football from Alabama 1898 births 1946 deaths