VIENNA — When Bill Bohren won his 300th football game as a head coach, he was relieved it was over.

“Now I can concentrate on the next game, not the number,” the Mathews Mustangs head coach said Saturday. “I was pretty confident we would win.”

Bohren, 87, began his coaching career in the late 1990s and has coached all over the Valley — and now leads the Mustangs that he only began coaching this fall.

The team earned No. 300 in a one-sided victory over Ashtabula St. John at the SPIRE Institute in Harpersfield Township, 36-0.

“When I was invited to coach here I knew this district had a chance to be good,”ã he said. “It had a good basketball team and an excellent baseball team. They had a culture of winning here.”

But the Mathews football team in the last four years had a record of 6 and 24.

During some games the team did not have enough players to field a team.

“The key was to talk to students in the school,” Bohren said. “Sit down with them and try to coax interest in playing on the football team.”

The team now has 30 players. In other districts where he’s coached, he’s had teams with 38 seniors on them.

“We will be better next year,” he said. “We already have ninth graders committed to play. We will be better the following year.”