Tom Brown (tackle)

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

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

Vanderbilt

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

Pro football

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

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

  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.