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Jimmy Suter

Football returns after World War II, and a Hall of Fame coach leads the next Greenbrier chapter.

1946–1951 · POSTWAR GREENBRIER

Jimmy Suter and the return of football

Greenbrier's record has no team in 1944 or 1945. Jimmy Suter leads the next chapter beginning in 1946. Across the six surviving season records from 1946–51, Greenbrier accounts for 19 wins, 20 losses and two ties, with the first postwar season still carrying one unresolved game result.

1946 · football returns

Four final scores survive and all four are wins. An Adams game survives without a final, so the page separates documented totals from the unknown result.

1946 FEATURE

1949 · a rivalry marker

The surviving record includes a 33–0 win over White House, a 43–0 win over Jo Byrns and a 31–7 win over East Robertson.

1949 SEASON

Hall of Fame

Jimmy Suter is listed among the Hall of Fame's inaugural 2005 inductees. VOTC uses that induction to connect the coach to the broader Greenbrier legacy while keeping the incomplete early schedules visibly incomplete.

HALL PROFILE ↗

The road to 1955

Suter's final season was 1951. After a one-year Hubert Smothers stop, Harold Fletcher turned 4–5 into 5–4 and then 10–0.

FLETCHER TURNAROUND