1946 · POSTWAR REBUILD

Football Returns

Four documented wins after the wartime gap, an unresolved fifth result, and the beginning of Jimmy Suter's Greenbrier coaching run.

1946 · POSTWAR RETURN

Four surviving wins — and one unanswered line

Greenbrier's surviving score record has no team in 1944 or 1945. Football returns in 1946 with four documented victories: Coopertown 19–12, Cross Plains 25–6, Cedar Hill 25–8 and Cross Plains 27–6. A fifth opponent, Adams, survives in the older record without a final score.

4Documented wins
96–32Known-game scoring
1Unresolved Adams final

Jimmy Suter takes over

Greenbrier's head-coach records lists Jimmy Suter from 1946 through 1951. The Hall of Fame inducted Suter in 2005, connecting the postwar restart to the school's broader athletic history.

COACHING REGISTERHALL OF FAME INDUCTEES ↗

Why the unknown matters

The four known games total 96 points for Greenbrier and 32 for opponents. Because the Adams final is missing, VOTC presents those as documented-game totals, not a fabricated complete-season score.

1946 SEASON

A new chapter, not a clean slate

After the wartime gap, Greenbrier football is back on the field. From here the story runs through Suter's six seasons, Harold Fletcher's 1953–55 turnaround and the Blue Howse years that followed.

FLETCHER TURNAROUND →POSTWAR ERA