1938 · JOE HENRY CARTER
The first perfect football season in the surviving record
6–0Known record
228Points scored
20Points allowed
Greenbrier's surviving records six wins and no losses in 1938. It is the first perfect football season currently preserved in the program record.
The season room
The known schedule includes a 62–0 win over East Nashville. No surviving film has been identified.
FULL 1938 SEASONJoe Henry Carter
Carter is listed among the Greenbrier Athletic Hall of Fame's inaugural 2005 inductees. The Hall connection supplies legacy context; the 1938 record itself remains grounded in Greenbrier's season record.
HALL PROFILE ↗Two years later, the identity arrives
In May 1940, the student body officially chose the Bobcat as the emblem of Greenbrier's teams.
WHEN THE BOBCAT NAME BEGANThe decade behind 6–0
The road into the perfect season
The 1930–37 archive now separates blank years, score-only entries, a loss without a score and the 1935–36 team photograph. Follow the complete source-led path to 1938.