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Enoch Brown (American football)

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Enoch Brown
Brown c. 1912
Vanderbilt Commodores
PositionEnd
Personal information
Born:(1892-05-19)May 19, 1892
Franklin, Tennessee
Died:1962 (aged 69–70)
Height5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Weight160 lb (73 kg)
Career history
CollegeVanderbilt (1911–1913)
High schoolBattle Ground Academy
Career highlights and awards

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

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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

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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 won the Bachelor of Ugliness for the class of 1914.

Coaching career

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High school

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Nuck Brown later coached at Montgomery Bell Academy.[7]

Vanderbilt

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Brown assisted his alma mater in 1920.

References

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  1. ^ "Constitution's All-Southern Picked By Coach Donahue of Champion Auburn Team". Atlanta Constitution. November 30, 1913.
  2. ^ a b "Brown to Lead Vanderbilt". Boston Evening Transcript. December 5, 1912.
  3. ^ "Athletic Miscellany". Vanderbilt University Quarterly. 13: 55. 1913.
  4. ^ Bill Traughber (November 25, 2014). "1913 Rewind: Commodores rally to stay undefeated against Vols". Archived from the original on September 29, 2015. Retrieved December 24, 2014.
  5. ^ ""Nuck" Brown to Lead". The Washington Times. December 9, 1912. p. 12. Retrieved March 3, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  6. ^ Henry Jay Case (1914). "Vanderbilt–A University of the New South". Outing. 64: 327.
  7. ^ "M. B. A. Wipes Out Hopkinsville Defeat". The Tennessean. September 26, 1915. p. 48. Retrieved September 27, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon