Earl Brown (coach), Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Earl Brown (coach)

American football and basketball player and coach

Date of Birth: 23-Oct-1915

Date of Death: 23-Sep-2003

Profession: basketball player, basketball coach, American football player

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Earl Brown (coach)

  • Earl M.
  • Brown Jr.
  • (October 23, 1915 – September 23, 2003) was an American football and basketball player and coach.
  • He served as the head football coach at Dartmouth College (1943–1944), the United States Merchant Marine Academy (1945), Canisius College (1946–1947), and Auburn University (1948–1950), compiling a career college football record of 27–36–6.
  • Brown was also the head basketball coach at Harvard University (1941–1943), Dartmouth (1943–1944), the United States Merchant Marine Academy (1945–1946), and Canisius (1946–1948), tallying a career college basketball mark of 72–70.
  • He led Dartmouth to the finals of the 1944 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. Brown is notorious for his stretch at as football coach at Auburn, where he went 3–22–4, including a record of 0–10 in his final season, when the Tigers were outscored 285–31.
  • Brown's first season as the head coach at Auburn was also the first season Auburn and the Alabama met on the gridiron since 1907; Auburn lost, 55–0.
  • The next season, though, he coached Auburn to one of the greatest upsets in its history, when the Tigers, who entered the game with a record of 1–4–3, stunned heavily favored Alabama, who entered the game with a 6–2–1 record, 14–13. Brown played football and basketball at the University of Notre Dame.
  • He was an assistant coach at Harvard, Brown, and the head coach at Dartmouth from 1943 to 1944, where he compiled a record of 8–6–1.
  • In 1945, he posted a 5–3 record in his only season as the head coach at the United States Merchant Marine Academy.
  • After leaving Auburn, Brown later served as an assistant coach for the Detroit Lions. Brown died on September 23, 2003 in Leesburg, Florida.

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