| Tom Brown | |
| Birth Date: | 2 July 1890 |
| Birth Place: | Gallatin, Tennessee |
| Death Place: | Sylvania, Ohio |
| Position: | Tackle |
| Playing Years1: | 1910–13 |
| Playing Team1: | Vanderbilt (football & basketball) |
| Playing Years2: | 1915–17 |
| Playing Team2: | Toledo Maroons |
| Weight Lb: | 180 |
| Height Ft: | 6 |
| Height In: | 2 |
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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.
Tom Brown was born on July 2, 1890, in Gallatin, Tennessee, to Thomas Hartwell Brown, Sr. and Annie Donelson Hunt.
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]
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]
Brown was an avid member of the Rotary Club for more than 38 years. "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]