1908–1910 Sewanee Name Chigger Browne | ||
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Sport(s) Track and field/football Born August 3, 1888Memphis, Tennessee ( 1888-08-03 ) Alma mater | ||
Alvin Lowell "Chigger" Browne (August 3, 1888 – March 2, 1955) was a college football player and track coach.
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Sewanee
Browne was a quarterback for the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee: The University of the South from 1908 to 1910. Browne also played baseball, basketball, and track. He was twice selected All-Southern, and mentioned by Grantland Rice as one of the great little men of the sport, once weighing only 111 pounds. He was most often listed as some 5 feet 8 inches tall and 125 pounds. Rice also said he was "harder to surround and tackle than a flea." He could run 100 meters in 10 seconds flat. At Sewanee he was a member of Kappa Alpha.
1908
College Football Hall of Fame quarterback Harry Van Surdam, coach of the 1908 team, said of Browne, he "was the greatest quarterback that I have ever seen in my 50 years of being connected with football as a coach and official . . . he was fast as lightning and wasn't afraid of anything. Chigger was so small that we had to keep him taped up to prevent him from getting broken up . . . We had only 18 men on the squad. If we wanted to scrimmage we had to bend the line around."
1909
Browne was quarterback on the SIAA champion 1909 team.
University of Florida
He coached the Florida Gators track team of the University of Florida in 1926 and 1927.