Tom Brown (tackle)
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| Born: | July 2, 1890 Gallatin, Tennessee |
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| Died: | August 3, 1972 (aged 82) Sylvania, Ohio |
| Career information | |
| Position(s) | Tackle |
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) |
| Weight | 180 lb (82 kg) |
| Career history | |
| As player | |
| 1910–13 | Vanderbilt (football & basketball) |
| 1915–17 | Toledo Maroons |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Thomas Hartwell Brown Jr. (July 2, 1890 – August 3, 1972) was a college football and basketball player for the Vanderbilt Commodores of Vanderbilt University. He played next to his brother Charles on the line for the football team. Tom Brown was also a medical doctor.
Early years
[edit]Tom Brown was born on July 2, 1890, in Gallatin, Tennessee, to Thomas Hartwell Brown, Sr. and Annie Donelson Hunt.
Vanderbilt
[edit]Brown graduated from Vanderbilt University with an M. D in 1913. In his senior year he was awarded the title of 'Bachelor of Ugliness,' given to the most liked fellow on campus.[1] Tom Brown was a prominent tackle on Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores football teams,[2] selected All-Southern.[3] As a freshman, he took part in the scoreless tie of defending national champion Yale.[1]
Toledo
[edit]Pro football
[edit]In World War I he served in the Army Medical Corps as a lieutenant. While interning at St Vincent's Hospital in Toledo, he played with the Toledo Maroons.[1] While with them, according to author Emil Klosinski, he played a part in the worst loss ever suffered by legendary coach Knute Rockne, a 40 to 0 win in 1917 over the "South Bend Jolly Fellows Club."[4]
Physician
[edit]Brown was an avid member of the Rotary Club for more than 38 years.[5] "He had no peers in his orthopedic ability and contributed greatly to Toledo medicine."[5] He was a Fellow in the American College of Surgeons and President of the Lucas County Academy of Medicine.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c William E. Wright (December 27, 1966). Citation delivered at the Fifth Annual Scholar Athlete Awards Dinner.
- ^ Bigelow, Poultney; Worman, James Henry; Worman, Ben James; Whitney, Caspar; Britt, Albert (1914). "Vanderbilt–A University of the New South". Outing. 64: 320–331.
- ^ "Consolidated All-Southern Chosen by Ten Scribes; Eleven Like Innis Brown's". Atlanta Constitution. December 3, 1912. p. 10.
- ^ Emil Klosinski (April 2006). Pro Football in the Days of Rockne. p. 135. ISBN 9781886571143.
- ^ a b c "In Memoriam, Dr. Thomas H. Brown". The Toledo Rotary Spoke. September 15, 1972.
- 1890 births
- 1972 deaths
- People from Gallatin, Tennessee
- Sportspeople from the Nashville metropolitan area
- Vanderbilt Commodores football players
- Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball players
- American football tackles
- All-Southern college football players
- Physicians from Tennessee
- Basketball players from Toledo, Ohio
- Toledo Maroons players
- American men's basketball players
- Players of American football from Toledo, Ohio