Biographical details | |
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Born | Memphis, Tennessee | August 3, 1888
Died | March 2, 1955 Stockton, California | (aged 66)
Alma mater | Sewanee:The University of the South |
Playing career | |
1908–1910 | Sewanee |
Position(s) | Quarterback |
Coaching career ( HC unless noted) | |
Track and field: | |
1926–1927 | Florida |
Football: | |
1928 | Florida (intramurals) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
SIAA championship (1909) | |
Awards | |
All-Southern (1909, 1910) Sewanee All-Time Football Team | |
Alvin Lowell "Chigger" Browne [1] (August 3, 1888 – March 2, 1955) was a college football player and track coach.
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. [2] He was twice selected All-Southern, [3] [4] and mentioned by Grantland Rice as one of the great little men of the sport, once weighing only 111 pounds. [5] 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." [6] He could run 100 meters in 10 seconds flat. [7] At Sewanee he was a member of Kappa Alpha. [8]
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." [2]
Browne was quarterback on the SIAA champion 1909 team.
He coached the Florida Gators track team of the University of Florida in 1926 and 1927. [9]
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