Earl Brown

Earl Brown
Sport(s)	Football, basketball
Biographical details
Born	October 23, 1915(1915-10-23)
Died	September 23, 2003(2003-09-23) (aged 87) Leesburg, Florida
Playing career
Football 1936–1938 Basketball 1936–1939	Notre Dame Notre Dame
Position(s)	End (football)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football 1939 1940–1942 1943–1944 1945 1946–1947 1948–1950 Basketball 1941–1943 1943–1944 1946–1948	Brown (ends) Harvard (ends) Dartmouth Merchant Marine Canisius Auburn Harvard Dartmouth Canisius
Head coaching record
Overall	27–36–6 (football) 67–60 (basketball)
Tournaments	2–1 (NCAA Basketball)
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse
Accomplishments and honors
Championships Football 1 Western New York Little Three Conference (1947)
Awards Football All-American, 1938

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), and Canisius (1946–1948), tallying a career college basketball mark of 67–60. 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.

Head coaching record

Football

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs	AP#
Dartmouth Indians (Independent) (1943–1944)
1943	Dartmouth	6–1				16
1944	Dartmouth	2–5–1
Dartmouth:		8–6–1
Merchant Marine Mariners (Independent) (1945)
1945	Merchant Marine	5–3
Merchant Marine:		5–3
Canisius Golden Griffins (Western New York Little Three Conference) (1946–1947)
1946	Canisius	4–3–1	1–1	2nd
1947	Canisius	7–2	2–0	1st
Canisius:		11–5–1	3–1
Auburn Tigers (Southeastern Conference) (1948–1950)
1948	Auburn	1–8–1	0–7	12th
1949	Auburn	2–4–3	2–4–2	8th
1950	Auburn	0–10	0–7	12th
Auburn:		3–22–4	2–18–2
Total:		27–36–6
#Rankings from final AP Poll.

External links

• Earl Brown at the College Football Data Warehouse
• Earl Brown at College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com