16 Facts About Warren Giese

Warren E Giese was an American state legislator in South Carolina and a college football coach.

Warren Giese served as the head football coach for the South Carolina Gamecocks for five years at the University of South Carolina.

Warren Giese 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.

Warren Giese was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he attended Rufus King High School.

Warren Giese 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.

Warren Giese played football there as well in 1943, and in the Navy, he played at stations in Miami and Jacksonville, Florida.

From 1949 to 1955, Warren Giese served as the ends coach at Maryland.

In March 1951, Warren Giese declined the head coaching position at Central Michigan University, for which he had already been approved by the school administration, after Maryland offered him a pay raise.

Warren Giese co-authored a book with Tatum entitled Coaching Football and the Split-T.

At the time, Warren Giese was the youngest head football coach in the nation.

That season, the NCAA implemented the two-point conversion rule, and Warren Giese enthusiastically adopted it as part of his game strategy.

That season, the NCAA loosened its rules regarding player substitutions, and Warren Giese correctly predicted the future rise of a "third platoon", distinct from the offensive and defensive units of two-platoon football.

Warren Giese was elected as a Republican to the South Carolina State Senate in 1985.

Warren Giese retired in 2004 as the second oldest serving South Carolina senator.

Barney Warren Giese unsuccessfully ran for election to his retired father's vacated Senate seat.