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AM 1340, WGRV and 103.1 FM WIKQ will have the broadcast. Pregame at 6:30 PM, kickoff at 7:00 PM, and scores and stats after the game. GreenevilleFootball.com

The conference schedule has been set for District 2, Double A and is available at GreeneCountyFootball.com

The conference schedule for teams in District 2 Double A has been set and is available at GreeneCountyFootball.com.

Greeneville's new conference schedule has been set and is available at GreeneCountyFootball.com

From GreenevilleFootball.com: In 1956, Greeneville joined the Big Six conference along with charter members Kingsport Dobyns-Bennett, Johnson City Science Hill, Unicoi County of Erwin, Bristol Tennessee High, and Elizabethton. Morristown joined the conference in 1959 and it became the Big Seven. In 1968, Morristown split into Morristown East and Morristown West, with Morristown East remaining a member of the conference. Sullivan East and Sullivan Central joined in 1971 as the conference grew to nine members. In 1977, the TSSAA stopped using power points to determine classifications and playoffs, and instead schools were divided into districts for district play and playoff advancement. Greeneville and Morristown East joined the Inter-Mountain Athletic Conference (IMAC) with Cocke County, Morristown West, Daniel Boone, Sevier County, Jefferson County, and David Crockett. In 1981, Sevier County left the conference, but was replaced with Cherokee, which had opened its doors in 1980. Daniel Boone left the conference in 1984, dropping the number to seven teams, where it remained through the 1992 season. Prior to the 1993 season, the TSSAA re-classified football from three classifications to five. The IMAC was classified as "4A" league, moving charter members Jefferson County and Morristown East up to 5A. Knox Carter, and former 2A school Volunteer filled the gap. The IMAC came to be known as the Five Rivers Conference, but was and is stilled called the IMAC by tradionalists. Re-classification again in 1995, just two years later, moved Cherokee, Greeneville and David Crockett back into the Big Nine/Mountain Lakes Conference with Elizabethton, Tennessee High, Daniel Boone and Sullivan South, Sullivan Central, and Sullivan East. Since Morristown East and Jefferson County had moved to 5A, and Volunteer had dropped to 2A, there were no original members left and the IMAC just faded into history. BUT, just two years later, the TSSAA changed their mind and decided it was better before they "fixed" things and returned the Five Rivers/IMAC conference to include both Morristown schools, Cherokee, and charter members Cocke County, Greeneville, and Crockett. Jefferson County remains in 5A classification. A slight increase in enrollment put Morristown East just barely above the limit for 4A schools and they were moved up to 5A for the 1999 and 2000 seasons. They were replaced with Volunteer. Two years later, East's enrollment dropped just enough to allow them to drop back to 4A, where they joined the IMAC again. Beginning with the 2005 season, Daniel Boone was welcomed back into the IMAC. Boone, a charter member in 1977, was moved from the Mountain Lakes Conference after Sullivan North elected to move up a level in classification, placing nine teams in that conference. The TSSAA elected to move Boone to the IMAC, making Region 1 and 2 equal in size with eight teams each.

Greeneville has been assigned to District 2 with South Greene, Chuckey Doak, West Greene, Grainger County, Cumberland Gap, and Claiborne. For more details, visit GreeneCountyFootball.com

A bit off topic, but still pertinent to GHS football: The new conference has been announced. For complete details, visit GreeneCountyFootball.com

TSSAA Board of Control Agenda Items 6. Proposal from District 14AAA and Bolton High School in Regard to Football Playoffs The basic proposal is that no team that has not won five games could qualify for the football playoffs. 7. Proposal for Change in Subdivisions in Football Playoffs from Henry County High School and Morristown East High School In the new classification format we have placed all schools in Division I in Class A, AA, and AAA. After schools moved up, we then subdivided each classification so that A has 1A and 2A in football; AA has 3A and 4A in football; and AAA has 5A and 6A in football. The proposal from Henry County and Morristown East is that subdividing should take place at the first point when schools are placed in the three classes. Schools would then still have the opportunity to move up but the moving up would not cause a school to be bumped from 5A to 6A or from 3A to 4A. 8. Sullivan Central Appeals Classification AAA

From www.greenevillefootball.com: Greeneville High School quarterback Jordan Greenway is poised to set a new record Friday night as the Greene Devils travel to Morristown to face the West High Trojans. Greenway needs just forty more passing yards to become the school??™s leading passer, and with just sixty-seven yards, Greenway can become the first quarterback to throw for more than 5,000 yards. Greenway currently has 4,933 career yards, behind Cody Baugh, who threw for 4,972 from the 2000 through the 2002 season. Third on the list is current Tusculum head coach Frankie Debusk. Fifth on the list is Greenway??™s father, Tommy Greenway, who passed for 2,346 yards from 1970 through 1972. A complete list of GHS quarterback passing yards can be found on-line at www.greenevillefootball.com. The Devils, at 5-2 overall, and undefeated 4-0 in Five Rivers Conference play, will try to keep their grasp on the conference lead as they face the Morristown West Trojans under their new head coach Lamar Brown. West is 4-3 overall, with only one conference loss, to the Morristown East Hurricanes. East High, also undefeated in conference play, faces Volunteer tonight. The Greeneville/Morristown West game can be heard on AM 1340, WGRV, as the Food City Scoreboard Game of the Week. Airtime is 6:30 with kick-off at 7:30 PM.

From NorthGreeneFootball.com North Greene versus Grace Christian Games: 4 (3-1) Oct. 08, 2004 Baileyton W 45-13 Aug. 26, 2005 Baileyton W 25-12 Aug. 25, 2006 Knoxville W 26-13 Aug. 31, 2007 Baileyton L 0-63

Stats and team information will be posted again this year to GreenevilleFootball.com. Page includes history of games back to early 1900s, including team photos from that era. Stats and player interviews are also posted. And, webpages for South Greene, Chuckey Doak, North Greene, and West Greene are also now up. You can find them all at GreeneCountyFootball.com.

Thanks CDHSKnights34. Hope to have CDHS pictures soon, maybe next week.

The complete history of Chuckey Doak, North Greene, South Greene and West Greene High Schools' football programs can be found at GreeneCountyFootball.com. If anybody has any old team photographs they would like included, contact through that website. Team photos are available for West Greene and South Greene since the schools' teams' beginnings.

Greeneville and Morristown (which later became Morristown East) have met every year since 1924 with two exceptions: The series was interrupted by World War II in the mid 1940s, and again from 1993-1996 when Morristown East was breifly classified as a 5-A school. SOURCE: GreenevilleFootball.com Morristown Games: 41 (19-23-4) 1916 Tie 0-0 1916 Won 6-0 1917 Lost 0-19 1918 - 1919 10/15 Lost Greeneville 0-10 1920 Lost 8-12 1920 Won 6-0 1924 Lost No Story 0-57 1924 Lost No Story 0-28 1925 10/30 Lost Greeneville 0-15 1926 Morristown - 1927 Lost Greeneville 6-46 1929 Lost Greeneville 0-2 1932 11/23 Lost Morristown 0-55 1933 Lost Greeneville 0-27 1934 11/2 Lost Morristown 0-13 1935 10/31 Won Greeneville 14-6 1936 Won Morristown 14-6 1937 10/19 Lost Greeneville 0-19 1938 10/27 Tie Morristown 0-0 1939 10/26 Tie Greeneville 0-0 1940 10/24 Lost Morristown 0-39 1941 10/24 Won Greeneville 39-0 1942 9/25 Won Morristown 26-0 1942 10/23 Won Greeneville 31-0 1944 9/? Won Morristown 27-3 1944 10/28 Won Greeneville 66-0 1948 10/15 Lost Morristown 0-12 1950 10/20 Lost Greeneville 6-7 1951 10/19 Won Morristown 34-7 1952 10/17 Won Greeneville 26-6 1953 10/16 Lost Morristown 6-26 1954 10/15 Won Greeneville 7-0 1955 10/14 Won Morristown 7-6 1956 10/12 Won Greeneville 25-0 1957 10/11 Won Morristown 20-7 1958 10/10 Won Greeneville 7-6 1959 10/9 Tie Morristown 6-6 1960 10/7 Won Greeneville 13-0 1961 10/6 Won Morristown 21-7 1962 10/5 Lost Greeneville 7-28 1963 10/4 Lost Morristown 6-19 1964 10/9 Won Greeneville 14-7 1965 10/8 Lost Morristown 0-14 1966 10/7 Lost Greeneville 7-38 1967 10/6 Lost Morristown 12-19 1968 10/11 Lost Greeneville 0-13 1969 10/10 Lost Morristown 2-27 Morristown East Games: 34 (20-14) 1970 10/9 Lost Greeneville 14-28 1971 10/8 Won Morristown 3-0 1972 10/6 Won Greeneville 45-0 1973 10/12 Lost Morristown 0-14 1974 10/11 Won Greeneville 20-14 1975 10/10 Lost Morristown 7-14 1976 10/8 Lost Greeneville 0-6 1977 9/30 Lost Morristown 7-33 1978 9/29 Won Greeneville 7-0 1979 10/12 Lost Morristown 14-20 1980 10/10 Won Greeneville 25-8 1981 10/23 Won Greeneville 34-19 1982 10/29 Won Morristown 36-22 1983 10/7 Lost Morristown 6-34 1984 10/12 Won Greeneville 25-7 1985 10/4 Won Greeneville 29-14 1986 10/3 Won Morristown 30-8 1987 10/3 Lost Greeneville 11-16 1988 9/30 Lost Morristown 9-14 1989 9/15 Won Greeneville 23-7 1990 9/14 Won Morristown 27-6 1991 11/1 Won Greeneville 19-14 1992 10/30 Won Morristown 21-14 1997 10/31 Lost Morristown 21-45 1998 10/29 Won Greeneville 44-21 1998 11/13 Won Greeneville 35-10 1999 10/22 Lost Morristown 12-14 2000 10/20 Won Greeneville 28-13 2001 10/19 Won Morristown 35-14 2002 10/24 Won Greeneville 42-20 2003 10/24 Won Morristown 38-12 2004 10/22 Lost Greeneville 20-40 2005 10/21 Lost Morristown 7-38 2005 10/20 Lost Greeneville 23-28

Former GHS Coach and GHS and UT Player Leonard Coffman Dies Leonard Coffman ripping the helmet off an LSU player in 1938 Leonard Coffman, long recognized as a favorite player of Coach Bob Neyland because of his take-no-prisoners approach to football, died Thursday in his adopted hometown of Greeneville, Tenn. He was the last surviving starter on the 1938 and 1939 teams that were two of the greatest elevens ever fielded under the orange and white Tennessee colors. The undefeated 1938 squad won the first of the UT's six national championships, and the 1939 Vols were the last major college team to go through a season unscored-on. A native Kentuckian who moved to Greeneville while still in high school, Coffman died at age 92. Until the last few months, he had continued to enjoy health that allowed him to stay active at his farm on the outskirts of Greeneville, where he lived alone. Coffman played on Greeneville High Schools 1935 team whose only loss came to Kingsport (Dobyns Bennett) 7-6. Coffmen returned to Greeneville to coach the Greene Devils from 1954 through 1959. (See records below) Coffman, who was inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame in 1996, was credited as the first back in the nation to ever execute the dive play for short yardage, a tactic that has since become standard in college football. It was something Neyland told him to work on before the 1938 Alabama game at Legion Field in Birmingham. The coach explained that Alabama would send its defensive linemen in low at the goal line to thwart the Tennessee run. Twice on that October afternoon against the Crimson Tide, Coffman leaped high over the pile of players, resulting in the two touchdowns that gave Tennessee the victory, 13-0. "We had practiced the play previously that season, but the Alabama game was the first time we needed it," Coffman said." Coach Leonard Coffman Greeneville High photo Fellow Vols who helped put together a 33-game winning streak in regular season play under Neyland in the late 30s and early 40s, were in awe of Coffman's fighting spirit. The late John Bailey, a teammate who later coached at Tennessee, once described Coffman as "the meanest, toughest football player Tennessee has ever had." George Cafego had echoed similar sentiments. The All-America tailback of those classic Neyland teams said, "When you saw the back of Coffman's neck turning red, you got out of his way." After Army service in World War II, Coffman got into coaching, working on the staff of another UT All-America, Bowden Wyatt, at Wyoming. Coffman stayed at Wyoming until 1954 when he returned south to become the principal and coach at the high school in Hot Springs, N.C. A year later, he was called to his alma mater, Greeneville High School, where he had been a star player after his family had moved from Middlesboro, Ky., while Coffman was still in high school. Over a five-year period he coached the Greene Devils to a 32-19-2 record. He left coaching to become a school adminstrator in the Greene County system. 1939 UT Backfield, L to R: Bob Foxx, Coffman, George Cafego, Sam Bartholomew Aside from his accomplishments as a coach and player, Coffman coined a philosophical statement that reflected his view of Tennessee football. In an interview with a Memphis sports writer during his playing days, Coffman remarked, "To play football for Tennessee, you have to get wet all over." His description of the Vols makeup has been resurrected by UT coaches periodically as a motivational tool. Neyland admired Coffman's spunk and grit but didn't spare his talented fullback the discipline for which the General was noted. "Neyland was a great man who took care of me a lot," Coffman remembered a few years ago. "I got in trouble one time, though. I took off and went home to see my girlfriend. When we were dressing for Monday practice, Neyland asked me how far it was to Greeneville. I told him 72 miles. He said, 'Okay, that will be 72 laps around the track.' Dink Eldridge, our manager, counted them off." Funeral services will be held at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Leonard Coffman's Senior Year Record at Greeneville High School 1935 - Won 9, Lost 1 Sep 14 Happy Valley Greeneville 26-0 W Sep 20 Blountville Greeneville 36-0 W Sep 27 Boones Creek Greeneville 52-0 W Oct 4 Rogersville Greeneville 26-0 W Oct 11 Dobyns Bennett Greeneville 6-7 L Oct 18 Tennessee High Bristol 19-6 W Oct 31 Morristown Greeneville 14-6 W Nov 8 Jonesborough Greeneville 35-0 W Nov 15 New Market Greeneville 31-0 W Nov 28 Cocke County Tusculum 21-6 W Leonard Coffman's Coaching Record at Greeneville High School (1955-1959) 1955 - Won 8, Lost 2, Tied 1 Sep 2 Unicoi County Greeneville 0-14 L Sep 10 Tennessee High Bristol 14-0 W Sep 23 Church Hill Greeneville 27-7 W Sep 30 Elizabethton Elizabethton 12-0 W Oct 7 Rogersville Greeneville 6-6 T Oct 14 Morristown Morristown 7-6 W Oct 21 Sevier County Sevierville 27-6 W Oct 28 Science Hill Greeneville 21-12 W Nov 4 Knoxville West Greeneville 40-20 W Nov 11 Cocke County Greeneville 33-7 W Nov 24 Knox Central Greeneville 7-14 L 1956 - Won 5, Lost 5 Aug31 Unicoi County Erwin 0-13 L Sep 7 Tennessee High Greeneville 6-13 L Sep 14 Sevier County Greeneville 13-6 W Sep 21 Church Hill Church Hill 0-7 L Sep 28 Elizabethton Greeneville 21-14 W Oct 12 Morristown Greeneville 25-0 W Oct 19 Dobyns Bennett Greeneville 0-20 L Oct 26 Science Hill Johnson City 14-0 W Nov 2 Knoxville West Greeneville 33-13 W Nov 9 Cocke County Newport 7-13 L 1957 - Won 8, Lost 2, Tied 1 Aug30 Unicoi County Greeneville 0-0 T Sep 6 Cocke County Greeneville 37-0 W Sep 13 Tennessee High Bristol 20-6 W Sep 20 Rogersville Greeneville 34-0 W Sep 27 Elizabethton Elizabethton 19-12 W Oct 4 Lynn View Greeneville 39-6 W Oct 11 Morristown Morristown 20-7 W Oct 18 Dobyns Bennett Kingsport 7-14 L Oct 25 Science Hill Greeneville 7-27 L Nov 1 Knoxville West Knoxville 27-7 W Middlesboro Middlesboro, KY 32-7 W 1958 - Won 7, Lost 4 Aug29 Sevier County Greeneville 20-0 W Sep 5 Cocke County Newport 7-0 W Sep 12 Tennessee High Greeneville 6-13 L Sep 19 Unicoi County Erwin 6-13 L Sep 26 Elizabethton Greeneville 6-7 L Oct 3 Lynn View Kingsport 33-0 W Oct 10 Morristown Greeneville 7-6 W Oct 17 Dobyns Bennett Greeneville 14-7 W Oct 24 Science Hill Johnson City 6-7 L Oct 31 Knoxville Young Knoxville 20-0 W Unicoi County Erwin 13-0 W 1959 - Won 3, Lost 6, Tied 2 Aug28 Sevier County Sevierville 12-0 W Sep 3 Cocke County Greeneville 13-6 W Sep 11 Tennessee High Bristol 0-20 L Sep 18 Unicoi County Greeneville 14-0 W Sep 25 Elizabethton Elizabethton 0-20 L Oct 9 Morristown Morristown 6-6 T Oct 16 Dobyns Bennett Kingsport 0-45 L Oct 23 Science Hill Greeneville 0-12 L Oct 30 Knoxville Young Greeneville 14-20 L Nov 6 LaFollette Greeneville 0-0 T Nov 26 Church Hill Greeneville 14-18 L