Northland College Athletics

Following an outstanding record at Therrel High in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1971, Howard "Rodney" Warren entered Northland as a pre-med student on an athletic scholarship. The year, he was selected as the college's most outstanding freshman football player. In 1973 he set a school football record by rushing for more than 1000 yards in a single season. Later in his athletic career, he was named to the Wisconsin Independent College

Association's all-conference football team, selected as an Outstanding College Athlete of America, and chosen by the Northland athletic staff for the Milton Gardner Award as the college's most outstanding student athlete of 1975. An avid sportsman, he enjoyed hunting, fishing, boating, waterskiing and scuba diving.

After graduating from Northland College, he obtained a master's degree at Atlanta University and in 1983 subsequently graduated from Meharry Medical College in Nashville. While interning in surgery at Martin Luther King/Charles Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles, he met and married a fellow physician, Dr. Marjorie Johnson-Warren. Upon completing his residency at Meharry, he researched urological cancer there. Rodney Warren died March 21, 1990. He will always be remembered as one of Northland's outstanding student athletes.