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Ohio State "Franchise Four"

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NJ-Buckeye said:
Warfield was a pure RB under Woody... He blew up in NFL
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1. Warfield suffered because Woody had first Ferguson and then Matt Snell (another under-appreciated Buckeye) and therefore didn't need to pass very often. In the 61 game he broke the ankles on a Michigan safety, making the weasel fall on his ass while Warfield proceeded to run right over him for a 50 yard TD run. You can see the highlight reel of that play on BTNs "Film Vault" show for the 1962 preseason. But his greatest day came when the #1 ranked badgers came to the 'shoe in 1962 with QB Ron Vanderkellen and end Pat Richter, one of the best passing combos in college football that year. Woody put Warfield in man on man coverage of Richter. Warfield held the guy to two catches for something like 8 yards and snapped his 8 game TD catch streak.

2. In his first year Warfield dropped several passes where he was wide open and the ball was right on target. In his class Woody told us how he fixed the problem. "I gave Paul a football and I told him, 'you toss this up in the air and catch it everywhere you go. If you're walking across the oval between classes, you toss it in the air and you catch it and I better not see you on campus without the ball or with it tucked under your arm.'"
 
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