Earl Brown

Earl Brown (1915-2003)

Teams coached: Harvard Crimson, Dartmouth Big Green, Merchant Marine Mariners, Canisius Golden Griffins
Harvard record: 20-30 (.400)
Dartmouth record: 19-2 (.905)
Merchant Marine record: 5-10 (.333)
Canisius record: 28-28 (.500)
Overall record: 72-70 (.507)

Career Accomplishments:

• NCAA National Championships:  0  (Runner-up in 1944)
• NCAA Tournament Appearances:  1  (1944)
• NCAA Tournament Final Four:  1  (1944)
• NIT Championships:  0
• NIT Appearances:  0
• Western NY3 Regular Season Champion:  1  (1947)
• Ivy League Regular Season Champion:  1  (1944)

Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):

1946-1948	Canisius
1945-1946	Merchant Marine
1943-1944	Dartmouth
1941-1943	Harvard

Earl Brown Facts

• Earl M. Brown, Jr.
• Born October 23, 1915
• Died September 23, 2003
• Alma Mater: University of Notre Dame (BA, 1939)
• Played football and basketball for three years each at Notre Dame, the latter for Hall of Fame head coach George Keogan
• Was primarily a football coach through his post-playing career starting off as an ends coach at Brown before arriving at Harvard in 1940, where he coached the same position for three seasons (1940-42)
  • Named head basketball coach of the Crimson in 1941, going 20-30 in two seasons at the helm
• Left for Dartmouth in 1943, coaching the football team for two years and the basketball team for one
  • The 1943-44 basketball team was incredibly successful, as Brown led the Big Green to an Ivy title and NCAA Runner-up finish
• Coached both sports for one year at the US Merchant Marine Academy in New York, going 5-3 in football and 5-10 in basketball
• Moved on to Canisius in 1946 and went 28-28 in two seasons as head basketball coach; won the first-ever Western NY3 title in 1947
  • Also coached football, going 11-5-1 in two seasons and also winning the conference title in 1947
• Final stop was an infamous stint at Auburn, where he only coached football; went just 3–22–4 in three seasons (including a 0-10 record in his final year) and was outscored 285-31 in aggregate
• Ended his collegiate coaching career with a 72-70 record in basketball and 27-36-6 record in football
  • Later spent time as an assistant coach with the Detroit Lions in the NFL

Earl Brown Coaching Tree

• Joe Vancisin (Yale)