Enoch Brown (American football)

Enoch Brown

Brown c. 1912
Biographical details
Born May 19, 1892
Franklin, Tennessee
Died 1962
Alma mater Vanderbilt University
Playing career
1911-13 Vanderbilt
Position(s) End
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1920 Vanderbilt (assistant)
Accomplishments and honors

Championships

2 SIAA (1911, 1912)

Awards

2x All-Southern (1912, 1913)
1912 All-time Vandy 2nd team.

Enoch "Nuck" Brown, Jr. (May 19, 1892 – 1962) was an All-Southern[1] college football end for the Vanderbilt Commodores of Vanderbilt University.

Early years

Enoch Brown, Jr. was born on May 19, 1892 in Franklin, Tennessee to Enoch Brown, Sr. and Lucinda Allen. His older brother Innis Brown was captain of the 1905 Vanderbilt Commodores football team and a long time official. Enoch, Jr. attended preparatory school at Battle Ground Academy.[2]

Vanderbilt

Brown also was a catcher on the Vanderbilt baseball team and a member of the basketball team. Nuck was captain of the 1913 Vanderbilt Commodores football team.[3][4][5] He was also a Rhodes Scholar.[6] At Vanderbilt he was a member of Delta Tau Delta.[2] Brown was 5 foot 8 inches tall and weighed 160 pounds.

Bachelor of Ugliness

One of the highest honors that a student could achieve was the "Bachelor of Ugliness," a title given to the male undergraduate student believed to be most representative of ideal young manhood an the class's most popular member, devised by Professor William H. Dodd in 1885. In 1914, that honor was given to Brown.

References

  1. ↑ "Constitution's All-Southern Picked By Coach Donahue of Champion Auburn Team". Atlanta Constitution. November 30, 1913.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Brown to Lead Vanderbilt". Boston Evening Transcript. December 5, 1912.
  3. ↑ "Athletic Miscellany". Vanderbilt University Quarterly 13: 55.
  4. ↑ Bill Traughber (November 25, 2014). "1913 Rewind: Commodores rally to stay undefeated against Vols".
  5. ↑ ""Nuck" Brown to Lead". The Washington Times. December 9, 1912. p. 12. Retrieved March 3, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ Henry Jay Case. "Vanderbilt–A University of the New South". Outing 64: 327.