Earl Brown (coach)

Earl Brown
Biographical details
Sport(s)	Football, basketball
Born	(1915-10-23)October 23, 1915
Died	September 23, 2003(2003-09-23) (aged 87) Leesburg, Florida
Playing career
Football
1936–1938	Notre Dame
Basketball
1936–1939	Notre Dame
Position(s)	End (football)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1939	Brown (ends)
1940–1942	Harvard (ends)
1943–1944	Dartmouth
1945	Merchant Marine
1946–1947	Canisius
1948–1950	Auburn
Basketball
1941–1943	Harvard
1943–1944	Dartmouth
1945–1946	Merchant Marine
1946–1948	Canisius
Head coaching record
Overall	27–36–6 (football) 72–70 (basketball)
Tournaments	2–1 (NCAA Basketball)
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), the United States Merchant Marine Academy (1945–1946), and Canisius (1946–1948), tallying a career college basketball mark of 72–70. 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]

Head coaching record

Football

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	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.

Basketball

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Harvard Crimson (Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League) (1941–1942)
1941–42	Harvard	8–16	5–7	T–4th
1942–43	Harvard	12–14	4–8	6th
Harvard:		20–30 (.400)	9–15 (.375)
Dartmouth Big Green (Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League) (1943–1944)
1943–44	Dartmouth	19–2	8–0	1st	NCAA Runner–up
Dartmouth:		19–2 (.905)	8–0 (1.000)
Merchant Marine Mariners (Independent) (1945–1946)
1945–46	Merchant Marine	5–10
Merchant Marine:		5–10 (.333)
Canisius Golden Griffins (Western New York Little Three Conference) (1946–1948)
1946–47	Canisius	18–13	3–0	1st
1947–48	Canisius	10–15	2–2	2nd
Canisius:		28–28 (.500)	5–2 (.714)
Total:		72–70 (.507)
National champion Postseason invitational champion Conference regular season champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Division regular season champion Division regular season and conference tournament champion Conference tournament champion

References

↑ "Former Auburn Coach Earl Brown Passes Away". Auburn University Official Athletic Site. CBS Interactive. September 27, 2003. Retrieved August 15, 2011.

External links

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

Harvard Crimson men's basketball head coaches

John K. Clark (1900–1902)
John Gilles (1902–1904)
No coach (1904–1905)
Clarence Randall (1905–1906)
Unknown (1906–1907)
George Grebenstein (1907–1909)
No official team (1909–1920)
Ed Wachter (1920–1933)
Wes Fesler (1933–1941)
Earl Brown (1941–1943)
Floyd Stahl (1943–1946)
William Barclay (1946–1949)
Norman Shepard (1949–1954)
Floyd Wilson (1954–1968)
Bob Harrison (1968–1973)
Satch Sanders (1973–1977)
Francis McLaughlin (1977–1985)
Peter Roby (1985–1991)
Frank Sullivan (1991–2007)
Tommy Amaker (2007– )

Dartmouth Big Green head football coaches

No coach (1881–1884)
No team (1885)
No coach (1886–1892)
Wallace Moyle (1893–1894)
William Wurtenburg (1895–1899)
Frederick E. Jennings (1900)
Walter McCornack (1901–1902)
Fred Folsom (1903–1906)
John C. O'Connor (1907–1908)
W. H. Lillard (1909)
W. J. Randall (1910)
Frank Cavanaugh (1911–1916)
Clarence Spears (1917–1920)
Jackson Cannell (1921–1922)
Jesse Hawley (1923–1928)
Jackson Cannell (1929–1933)
Earl Blaik (1934–1940)
Tuss McLaughry (1941–1942)
Earl Brown (1943–1944)
Tuss McLaughry (1945–1954)
Bob Blackman (1955–1970)
Jake Crouthamel (1971–1977)
Joe Yukica (1978–1986)
Buddy Teevens (1987–1991)
John Lyons (1992–2004)
Buddy Teevens (2005– )

Dartmouth Big Green men's basketball head coaches

No coach (1900–1906)
Henry Lane (1906–1909)
Benjamin Lang (1909–1910)
Tom Keady (1910–1911)
Francis Brady (1911–1912)
James Mullen (1912–1913)
C. A. Reed (1913–1914)
P. W. Loudon (1914–1916)
J. A. Pelletier (1916–1917)
Mysterious Walker (1917–1918)
No team (1918–1919)
George Zahn (1919–1924)
Leonard Wachter (1924–1928)
Albert Stark (1928–1936)
Osborne Cowles (1936–1943)
Earl Brown (1943–1944)
Osborne Cowles (1944–1946)
Elmer A. Lampe (1946–1950)
Doggie Julian (1950–1967)
Dave Gavitt (1967–1969)
George Blaney (1969–1972)
Tom O'Connor (1972–1974)
Marcus Jackson (1974–1975)
Gary Walters (1975–1979)
Tim Cohane (1979–1983)
Reggie Minton (1983–1984)
Paul Cormier (1984–1991)
Dave Faucher (1991–2004)
Terry Dunn (2004–2010)
Mark Graupe # (2010)
Paul Cormier (2010–2016)
David McLaughlin (2016– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Merchant Marine Mariners head football coaches

Earl Brown (1945) William Reinhart (1946–1949) John Baker (1950) Clem Stralka (1951–1957) Harry Wright (1958–1963) Chuck Mills (1964) George Paterno (1965–1968) Drew Tallman (1969–1970) Clive Rush (1976) Pete Carmichael (1977–1980) Dennis Barrett (1981–1990) Charlie Pravata (1991–2002) Tim McNulty (2003–2004) Mike Toop (2005– )

Canisius Golden Griffins head football coaches

No coach (1918)
Herman Bleich (1919–1920)
Luke Urban (1921–1930)
Eugene Oberst (1931–1932)
Mike Traynor (1932)
William Joy (1933–1938)
James B. Wilson (1939–1942)
No team (1943–1945)
Earl Brown (1946–1947)
James B. Wilson (1948–1949)
No team (1950–1966)
Unknown (1967–1974)
Bill Brooks (1975–1981)
Tom Hersey (1982–1991)
Barry Mynter (1992–1994)
Chuck Williams (1995–1999)
Ed Argast (2000–2002)

Canisius Golden Griffins men's basketball head coaches

J. P. Quinlisk (1903–1905)
John Schmitt (1905–1906)
J. P. Quinlisk (1906–1907)
John Mahoney (1907–1909)
Charles McCabe (1909–1911)
No record (1911–1912)
Charles McCabe (1912–1913)
No record (1913–1914)
Charles McCabe (1914–1915)
No record (1915–1916)
Raymond McDonald (1916–1918)
No record (1918–1919)
Edward Miller (1919–1920)
Mike Sweeney (1920–1921)
Luke Urban (1921–1924)
Russell Burt (1924–1925)
Luke Urban (1925–1931)
Russell Burt (1931–1933)
Allie Seelbach (1933–1944)
Art Powell (1944–1946)
Earl Brown (1946–1948)
Joseph Niland (1948–1953)
Joseph Curran (1953–1959)
Bob MacKinnon (1959–1972)
John Morrison (1972–1974)
Johnny McCarthy (1974–1977)
Nick Macarchuk (1977–1987)
Marty Marbach (1987–1992)
John Beilein (1992–1997)
Mike MacDonald (1997–2006)
Tom Parrotta (2006–2012)
Jim Baron (2012–2016)
Reggie Witherspoon (2016– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Auburn Tigers head football coaches

George Petrie (1891–1892)
D. M. Balliet (1892)
George Roy Harvey (1893)
Forrest M. Hall (1894)
John Heisman (1895–1899)
Walter H. Watkins (1900–1901)
Robert S. Kent (1902)
M. S. Harvey (1902)
William Penn Bates (1903)
Mike Donahue (1904–1906)
Willis Kienholz (1907)
Mike Donahue (1908–1922)
Boozer Pitts (1923–1924)
Dave Morey (1925–1927)
Boozer Pitts (1927)
George Bohler (1928–1929)
Johnny Floyd (1929)
Chet A. Wynne (1930–1933)
Jack Meagher (1934–1942)
No team (1943)
Carl M. Voyles (1944–1947)
Earl Brown (1948–1950)
Ralph Jordan (1951–1975)
Doug Barfield (1976–1980)
Pat Dye (1981–1992)
Terry Bowden (1993–1998)
Bill Oliver # (1998)
Tommy Tuberville (1999–2008)
Gene Chizik (2009–2012)
Gus Malzahn (2013– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim coach.

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