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GREENVILLE FOOTBALL WEB SITE
IS OFFICIALLY CLOSED
SITES TO CONTINUE TO FOLLOW THE TROJANS ON THE WEB
Trojan Team site at MaxPreps - Click Here (Roster, Schedule, Scores, and Offensive & Defensive Stats)
My Valley Sports site - Click Here (Covers Ohio and NW PA Teams with schedules, scores & video).
 HISTORY OF THE GREENVILLE FOOTBALL WEB SITE
 By Art Williams / ACW Productions
In the summer of 1998, I contacted Head Coach Bob Stone to see if he would mind if I created a web site for the Trojans.  At our first meeting, I described to Coach Stone what the web site would include.  When I finished, he looked at me and asked what a web site was. Thus the web site had its start.
The goal for the web site was to provide fans, especially those out of the area, a means to follow the Trojans on the internet by providing scores, statistics, photos and other information.  There were many challenges getting information, stats and photos on the site in a timely fashion. Many hours were spent on that process.
At the start, Paul Miller, Greenville Athletic Director at the time, who was also the Northwest Conference commissioner provided Trojans records from the past and individual/team statistics from the NW Conference. Kent Bell (currently Pastor at Bethel Life Church), a radio announcer who covered the Trojans on a local station provided game statistics. I took photos of the players, coaches, trainers, managers, cheerleaders, fans, and the band at halftime. Team and individual photos were taken on Media Day.
The quality of the site improved over time with the help of Nate Leary of Leary's Studio who started to allow me to use his team photos and Whendy Kozminski, the Record Argus Sports Director at the time, who started to supply me with game stats the night of the game by email. It would be with Whendy's help that the site would eventually reach its top level of interest.
As the site developed, a live online Pre-Season & Post Season chat with Coach Stone was added to the site. Hosting the chats was one of the highlights for me operating the site, they were a lot of fun. At its peak, an online chat night would go something like this:  I would pick up a pizza donated by Pizza Hut.  Coach Stone would show up, occasionally accompanied by his grandchildren.  His son, Bob, his typist, would arrive shortly after.  (Note: I still haven't seen anybody type as fast as him yet). Then, Whendy, the Record Argus Sports Director, would come and interview Coach Stone as the chat went on.  At the end of the chat a photo for the paper would be taken with Coach Stone at the computer with mouse in hand.
Other developments through the years that took the site to its highest level included; a Guestbook; a Trojan Dream Team section which was compiled by Coach Stone, Coach Ed Snyder and others; a Trojan Trivia section provided by Coach Stone's son Bob; Stats & Game stories by Whendy; JV game scores and notes provided by Coaches Terry Cooper, Mark Hayes and Brian Tokar; a strongest Trojan section and action game photos by Dave Rose.
The highest number of hits came in 2002 with nearly 30,000 that year.