Warren Giese
Giese as Maryland assistant in 1949
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
July 14, 1924 Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Died | September 12, 2013 (aged 89) Columbia, South Carolina |
| Playing career | |
| 1942 | Milwaukee State Teachers |
| 1943 | Central Michigan |
| 1946 | Oklahoma |
| 1947 | Central Michigan |
| Position(s) | End |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1949–1955 | Maryland (ends) |
| 1956–1960 | South Carolina |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 28–21–1 |
Warren Giese (July 14, 1924 – September 12, 2013) was a state legislator in South Carolina and a college football coach. He served as the head football coach for the South Carolina Gamecocks for five years at the University of South Carolina. He later served in the South Carolina State Senate.
At South Carolina, Giese employed a conservative, run-first game strategy, but he enthusiastically adopted the two-point conversion when it was made legal in 1958. That year, he also correctly predicted the rise of special teams after the NCAA relaxed its player substitution rules.
Giese was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he attended Rufus King High School. He attended and played football at the Milwaukee State Teachers College for one year before enlisting in the United States Navy through the V-12 pilot training program at Central Michigan University. He played football there as well in 1943, and in the Navy, he also played at stations in Miami and Jacksonville, Florida.
After World War II, Giese resumed college at the University of Oklahoma, where he played college football as an end under head coach Jim Tatum in 1946. That season, he was named a first-team All-Big Six Conference player. Giese graduated from Oklahoma in 1947. That year, he returned to Central Michigan to play football for his final year of college eligibility.
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