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Tom Brown (tackle)

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Tom Brown
Born:(1890-07-02)July 2, 1890
Gallatin, Tennessee
Died:August 3, 1972(1972-08-03) (aged 82)
Sylvania, Ohio
Career information
Position(s)Tackle
Height6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
Weight180 lb (82 kg)
Career history
As player
1910–13Vanderbilt (football & basketball)
1915–17Toledo Maroons
Career highlights and awards
  • 3x SIAA champion (1910, 1911, 1912)
  • 2x All-Southern (1912, 1913)
  • Toledo Chapter, Football Hall of Fame
  • 1912 All-time Vandy 1st team

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

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Tom Brown was born on July 2, 1890, in Gallatin, Tennessee, to Thomas Hartwell Brown, Sr. and Annie Donelson Hunt.

Vanderbilt

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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

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Pro football

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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

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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

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  1. ^ a b c William E. Wright (December 27, 1966). Citation delivered at the Fifth Annual Scholar Athlete Awards Dinner.
  2. ^ Bigelow, Poultney; Worman, James Henry; Worman, Ben James; Whitney, Caspar; Britt, Albert (1914). "Vanderbilt–A University of the New South". Outing. 64: 320–331.
  3. ^ "Consolidated All-Southern Chosen by Ten Scribes; Eleven Like Innis Brown's". Atlanta Constitution. December 3, 1912. p. 10.
  4. ^ Emil Klosinski (April 2006). Pro Football in the Days of Rockne. p. 135. ISBN 9781886571143.
  5. ^ a b c "In Memoriam, Dr. Thomas H. Brown". The Toledo Rotary Spoke. September 15, 1972.