Fiske Brown | |
Position1: | Guard |
Birth Date: | 13 June 1901[1] |
Birth Place: | Plymouth, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Death Date: | [2] |
Death Place: | Brockton, Massachusetts, U.S. |
College: | Harvard College |
Playing Years1: | 1920–1921 |
Playing Team1: | Harvard |
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John Fiske Brown (June 13, 1901 – May 30, 1978) was an American athlete who participated in American football, wrestling and track and field. He was a competitor in all three sports at Harvard University and a consensus All-American in football.
Brown was raised in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and attended preparatory school at Andover where he was a member of the football, wrestling and track teams.[3]
As a guard for the Harvard Crimson football team, Browne was a consensus first-team selection for the 1921 College Football All-America Team.[4] He was also captain of Harvard's wrestling team and a competitor in the heavyweight class.[5] [6] He was also the captain of the track and field team and a competitor in the shot put and hammer throw events.[7] [8] He set a record in the hammer throw for international meets between Yale, Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge with a distance of 159 feet, 4-3/4 inches.[9]