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Tom Brown (tackle)
American football player

Tom Brown (tackle)

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Thomas Hartwell "Tom" Brown, Jr. (July 2, 1890 – August 3, 1972) was a college football and basketball player for the Vanderbilt Commodores of Vanderbilt University. Brown was also a medical doctor.

Early years

Tom Brown was born on July 2, 1890 in Gallatin, Tennessee to Thomas Hartwell Brown, Sr. and Annie Donelson Hunt.

Vanderbilt

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. Tom Brown was a prominent tackle on Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores football teams, selected All-Southern. As a freshman he took part in the scoreless tie of defending national champion Yale.

Toledo

Pro football

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. 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."

Physician

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." He was a Fellow in the American College of Surgeons and President of the Lucas County Academy of Medicine.

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