GREENBRIER FOOTBALL · BEHIND THE SIDELINE

Inside the Program

Not every piece of football history is a score or a newspaper clipping. Some of it survives on a coach’s sheet, in a locker-room photograph, or on a scrapbook page that was never meant to become history.

Featured collection: Steve Sorrells coaching files · Jim Sorrells Collection
2002–2005 · COACHING FILES

The play menu

Three surviving sheets preserve the offensive menu used across Greenbrier’s 2002–05 run. They came from the files of Steve Sorrells, who served on the Greenbrier staff and worked as defensive coordinator during this period. The sheets show the language the staff and players lived in every day: Rip and Liz, Crossbuck, Belly, Jet, the 70/80/90 series, Waggle, Crossfire, Zipper and the short-yardage packages.

First sheet of the Greenbrier 2002 to 2005 offensive play menu
Play menu · Sheet 1Rip/Liz formations with the Crossbuck, Belly, Down 60s, Jet and 70 series.
Second sheet of the Greenbrier 2002 to 2005 offensive play menu
Play menu · Sheet 2The 80 and 90 series plus Marshall, Power I Right and I River.
Third sheet of the Greenbrier 2002 to 2005 offensive play menu
Play menu · Sheet 3Dive, Blast, Power Sweep, Waggle and the Zipper/Cluster additions.
Why it matters: these sheets connect four of the most important consecutive seasons in program history—the first TSSAA playoff win in 2002, the first semifinal in 2003, the first state-title appearance in 2004 and the 2005 region-title/streak-stopping season.
SEPTEMBER 2005 · CHEATHAM COUNTY WEEK

What the defense was preparing for

Two sheets from Steve Sorrells’ files preserve the defensive preparation for Cheatham County. One tracks down-and-distance run/pass tendencies and favorite calls; the other condenses formations, personnel tendencies and the defensive priorities into a handwritten game-week summary.

2005 Cheatham County down and distance scouting breakdown from Greenbrier coaching files
Down-and-distance breakdownRun/pass tendencies, favorite running plays and favorite passes organized by situation.
2005 Cheatham County defensive tendency notes from Greenbrier coaching files
Defensive tendency sheetFormation clues and the staff’s condensed keys for forcing Cheatham away from what it did best.
2005 · THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE SEASON

Senior Night, the final game, and the last day

These photographs move the collection away from the scoreboard and into the room. One preserves the senior group in the locker room after the season-ending playoff loss. Another captures Senior Night with Jim Sorrells and his parents. The third preserves Jim Sorrells, Zach Reasoner and Dale Krisle around the final game.

These photographs are presented from the Jim Sorrells Collection with identifications supplied by the collection owner.
Greenbrier football seniors in the locker room after the final game of the 2005 season
The last dayThe 2005 seniors together in the locker room after the season-ending loss.
Jim Sorrells with his parents on Greenbrier football Senior Night in 2005
Senior Night · 2005Jim Sorrells with his parents.
Jim Sorrells, Zach Reasoner and Dale Krisle during the final game of Greenbrier's 2005 football season
Final game · 2005Jim Sorrells, Zach Reasoner and Dale Krisle.
2005–06 · STUDENT COUNCIL SCRAPBOOK

Friday night from another scrapbook

Two surviving pages from the 2005–06 Student Council scrapbook preserve Homecoming and Coming Home as they were assembled at the time. Rather than separating the mounted photographs and pretending they survived individually, the pages are shown as the scrapbook objects they are.

Surviving 2005 to 2006 Student Council scrapbook page for Homecoming
Homecoming Ceremony · 2005A surviving Student Council scrapbook page with the football escorts and court preserved in place.
Surviving 2005 to 2006 Student Council scrapbook page for Coming Home
Coming Home Ceremony · 2005–06The companion Student Council scrapbook page, preserved as a complete page.
KEEP EXPLORING

Football history from the inside out.

Inside the Program will hold the pieces that explain how Greenbrier football was prepared, taught and experienced—not just how it finished on Friday night.