| Earl Brown | |
|---|---|
| Sport(s) | Football, basketball |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | October 23, 1915 |
| Died | September 23, 2003 (aged 87) |
| Place of death | 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) |
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| Awards | |
| Football All-American, 1938 |
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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.[1]
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| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | AP# | |||
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| 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. | |||||||||
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