| Chigger Browne | |
| File:Chigger Browne and Germany Schulz.jpg Chigger Browne on the right next to Germany Schulz, c. 1910. | |
| Sport(s) | Track and field/football |
|---|---|
| Biographical details | |
| Born | August 3, 1888 Memphis, Tennessee |
| Died | March 2, 1955 (aged 66) Stockton, California |
| Alma mater | Sewanee:The University of the South |
| Playing career | |
| Position(s) | Quarterback |
| 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.
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.[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]
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."[2]
1909[]
Browne was quarterback on the SIAA champion 1909 team.
Coaching career[]
University of Florida[]
He coached the Florida Gators track team of the University of Florida in 1926 and 1927.[9]
See also[]
- 1909 Sewanee Tigers football team
- 1910 College Football All-Southern Team
- Tick Tichenor
References[]
- ↑ "Deaths". Sewanee Alumni News: 14. 1956. http://www.mocavo.com/Sewanee-Alumni-News-February-1956-Volume-22/906105/14.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Brown Is All-Time Tiger Great". Sewanee Alumni News: 15. 1952. https://archive.org/stream/sewaneealumninew18univ#page/n53/mode/2up/search/chigger.
- ↑ "National and Southern Honors". Sewanee Football Media Guide: 31. 2011. http://issuu.com/sewaneeathletics/docs/sewaneefootball2011.
- ↑ e. g. Template:Closed access "All S. I. A. A. Team.". Times-Picayune. December 8, 1910. http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=Y4ET4ESEMTQxMDI3Njg5OC40Mjc3NTE6MToxMzoxMzIuMTk4LjUwLjEz&p_action=doc&s_lastnonissuequeryname=30&d_viewref=search&p_queryname=30&p_docnum=8&p_docref=v2:1223BCE5B718A166@EANX-122ACF8107A1BC40@2419014-1228336458E2E538@11-13204451DD2BE891@All%20S.%20I.%20A.%20A.%20Team.%20Consensus%20of%20Opinion%20Gives%20Places%20to%20Players.%20Vanderbilt%2C%20Sewanee.
- ↑ Grantland Rice (January 31, 1942). "Hogan and Hinkey Rate Among Best Little Men". The Miami News. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2206&dat=19420131&id=WwYtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Y9QFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4179,6360219.
- ↑ Grantland Rice (June 18, 1937). "Size Doesn't Make Athlete". The Milwaukee Journal. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19370618&id=raVQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JSIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5092,6341357.
- ↑ "Sewanee Here On Saturday". Atlanta Constitution. November 11, 1908.
- ↑ "Alpha-Alpha". The Kappa Alpha Journal 27 (2): 200. 1909. https://books.google.com/books?id=pJhOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA200X&ei=oShfVIWJELONsQSOvYHACA&ved=0CFIQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- ↑ Old Yearbook Filled with Future Leaders. October 17, 1992. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19921017&id=5MswAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VgcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6824,5248248&hl=en.
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