In Warner's first season at Georgia, he was hired at a salary of $34 per week.
The school was a charter member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA), the first athletic conference in the South.
 The football team had three wins and four losses, including a loss to North Carolina from a not-yet-legal forward pass.
He was rehired at a salary of $40 per week, and the next season Georgia had one of the school's first great teams.
With an undefeated record, the team won its first conference title.
It also avenged the loss to North Carolina, winning 24–16,  "For the first time in Southern football history the football supremacy of Virginia and North Carolina was successfully challenged."

During those two years Warner also played two games against John Heisman, another future coaching legend.
Heisman was the head coach at Auburn University, and they faced each other in the 1895 and 1896 games of the "Deep South's Oldest Rivalry," an annual confrontation which has continued to the present day.
In 1895, the Auburn Tigers defeated the Bulldogs 12–6.
The Auburn team was led by quarterback Reynolds "Tick" Tichenor, known for his punt returns.
Tichenor had executed the first "hidden-ball trick" in an earlier Auburn game against Vanderbilt, and used it again against Georgia.
The next year, Tichenor faced Georgia's Richard Von Albade Gammon, a star quarterback in his first year under Warner.
Both quarterbacks played well and, unlike the previous year, Warner's team won 16–6.
The second touchdown came right after the first onside kick in the South.
In Warner's first season at Georgia, he was hired at a salary of $34 per week. The school was a charter member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA), the first athletic conference in the South.  The football team had three wins and four losses, including a loss to North Carolina from a not-yet-legal forward pass. He was rehired at a salary of $40 per week, and the next season Georgia had one of the school's first great teams. With an undefeated record, the team won its first conference title. It also avenged the loss to North Carolina, winning 24–16,  "For the first time in Southern football history the football supremacy of Virginia and North Carolina was successfully challenged."
During those two years Warner also played two games against John Heisman, another future coaching legend. Heisman was the head coach at Auburn University, and they faced each other in the 1895 and 1896 games of the "Deep South's Oldest Rivalry," an annual confrontation which has continued to the present day. In 1895, the Auburn Tigers defeated the Bulldogs 12–6. The Auburn team was led by quarterback Reynolds "Tick" Tichenor, known for his punt returns. Tichenor had executed the first "hidden-ball trick" in an earlier Auburn game against Vanderbilt, and used it again against Georgia. The next year, Tichenor faced Georgia's Richard Von Albade Gammon, a star quarterback in his first year under Warner. Both quarterbacks played well and, unlike the previous year, Warner's team won 16–6. The second touchdown came right after the first onside kick in the South.
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