Enoch Brown (American football) explained

Enoch Brown
Birth Date:19 May 1892
Birth Place:Franklin, Tennessee
Highschool:Battle Ground Academy
Height Ft:5
Height In:8
Weight Lb:160
School:Vanderbilt Commodores
Pastschools:Vanderbilt (1911 - 1913)
Currentposition:End
Highlights:

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 won the Bachelor of Ugliness for the class of 1914.

Coaching career

High school

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

Vanderbilt

Brown assisted his alma mater in 1920.

Notes and References

  1. News: Atlanta Constitution. Constitution's All-Southern Picked By Coach Donahue of Champion Auburn Team. November 30, 1913.
  2. News: Brown to Lead Vanderbilt. Boston Evening Transcript. December 5, 1912.
  3. Athletic Miscellany. Vanderbilt University Quarterly. 1913. 13. 55.
  4. Web site: 1913 Rewind: Commodores rally to stay undefeated against Vols. Bill Traughber. November 25, 2014. December 24, 2014. September 29, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150929015848/http://www.vucommodores.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/112514aan.html. dead.
  5. News: "Nuck" Brown to Lead. March 3, 2015. December 9, 1912. 12. Newspapers.com. The Washington Times.
  6. Vanderbilt - A University of the New South. Henry Jay Case. 327. Outing. 1914. 64.
  7. News: M. B. A. Wipes Out Hopkinsville Defeat. The Tennessean. 48. September 26, 1915. September 27, 2015. Newspapers.com.