Position Guard/End College Vanderbilt (1903–1905) Name Innis Brown | Class Graduate | |
Date of birth (1884-03-31)March 31, 1884 Date of death January 23, 1961(1961-01-23) (aged 76) | ||
Innis Brown (March 31, 1884 – January 23, 1961) was a college football player, referee, sportswriter, and civil engineer.
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Early years
Innis Brown was born on March 31, 1884 in Franklin, Tennessee to Enoch Brown, Sr. and Lucinda Allen. Innis's younger brother Enock "Nuck" Brown was captain of the 1913 Vanderbilt Commodores football team.
Vanderbilt University
Innis was a prominent guard for Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores football teams of Vanderbilt University. He was also a Rhodes Scholar.
1905
In 1905 Brown was captain and selected All-Southern of the 1905 team. One publication claims "The first scouting done in the South was in 1905, when Dan McGugin and Captain Innis Brown, of Vanderbilt went to Atlanta to see Sewanee play Georgia Tech."
Mexico
Upon graduation, he went to Mexico as a civil engineer.
Referee
By 1912 he was a referee throughout the South, chosen by the Atlanta Constitution to pick its All-Southern team that year.
Sportwriter
He was then a sportswriter, taking charge of the sports section of the Atlanta Journal.
Golf
Brown was also an avid golfer, being the managing editor of American Golfer in 1919 with Grantland Rice.