# Fatty Warren

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**Chester Clyde "Fatty" Warren** (September 21, 1898 – 1946) was a [college football](/source/College_football) player.

## Early years

Warren was born September 21, 1898, in Coal City, Alabama, near [Pell City](/source/Pell_City,_Alabama) in [St. Clair County, Alabama](/source/St._Clair_County,_Alabama), the son of George Washington Warren and Mary Frances Savage.

## Auburn University

He was a prominent [guard](/source/Guard_(American_football)) for [Mike Donahue](/source/Mike_Donahue)'s [Auburn Tigers](/source/Auburn_Tigers_football) of [Auburn University](/source/Auburn_University) from [1918](/source/1918_Auburn_Tigers_football_team) to [1920](/source/1920_Auburn_Tigers_football_team).

### 1919

Warren was a prominent member of the [Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association](/source/Southern_Intercollegiate_Athletic_Association) (SIAA) champion [1919 team](/source/1919_Auburn_Tigers_football_team). Warren "waddled" for a 40-yard touchdown off a blocked punt in the victory over [Georgia Tech](/source/Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football),[1][2] the game which netted the championship and gave Tech its first loss to an SIAA school in five years, since Auburn won in [1914](/source/1914_Auburn_Tigers_football_team). It was [John Heisman](/source/John_Heisman)'s last game at Georgia Tech. [Zelda Sayre](/source/Zelda_Fitzgerald) sent All-Southern tackle [Pete Bonner](/source/Pete_Bonner) a telegram after the defeat of [Georgia Tech](/source/Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football) for the SIAA championship, it read:[3]

 "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](/source/Noah_Caton) and Warren anchored the line for Auburn on the 1920 team,[4] one of Auburn's greatest teams,[5] 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.[6] He was selected [All-Southern](/source/College_Football_All-Southern_Team).[7]

## References

1. [1920 Glomerata p. 173](http://content.lib.auburn.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/gloms1897/id/18328/rec/6)

1. John Staton (November 17, 1921). ["Golden Tornado Spends Day Studying Auburn Formations"](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2285290//). *Atlanta Constitution*. p. 12. Retrieved April 24, 2015. – via [Newspapers.com](/source/Newspapers.com)

1. Jeremy Henderson (October 27, 2014). ["Zelda Fitzgerald, Auburn fan"](http://www.thewareaglereader.com/2014/10/zelda-fitzgerald-auburn-fan/#.VFO-mhbYqqk)

1. Robert M. Ours (1984). [*College Football Almanac*](https://books.google.com/books?id=Wqc3AAAAMAAJ&q=%22c+c+warren%22+auburn+football+1920). Barnes & Noble Books. p. 18. ISBN 9780064640916.

1. Russell, Fred, and Maxwell Edward Benson. Fifty Years of Vanderbilt Football. Nashville, TN, 1938, p. 38

1. ["Light Players Replacing Heavy Gridiron Linemen"](https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19271129&id=HCtPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=z00DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5648,3628745). *St. Petersburg Times*. November 29, 1927.

1. ["Experts Select Star Athletes"](http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=H4FY52QIMTQxMDAyMDYwMi44NTUwNzE6MToxMzoxMzIuMTk4LjUwLjEz&p_action=doc&s_lastnonissuequeryname=11&d_viewref=search&p_queryname=11&p_docnum=29&p_docref=v2:11210D30DA68B248@EANX-1146E0035DE89DC0@2422664-1146E00517B1B450@9-1146E00DA16D6B38@Experts%20Select%20Star%20Athletes%20All%20South%20Atlantic%20and%20S.%20I.%20A.%20A.%20Teams%20Named.%20By). *The State*. December 5, 1920.

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