| TEAMS | AWARDS | MEDIA | CULTURE | STAFF | BOOKS | STATS | TRADING CARDS | IMAGES |
 Brown in Yale uniform | |
| Yale Bulldogs — No. | |
| Guard | Graduate |
| Major: {{{major}}} | |
| Date of birth: September 6, 1879 | |
| Place of birth: New York, New York | |
| Career history | |
|---|---|
| College(s): * Yale (1897–1900) | |
| Career highlights and awards | |
| * Consensus All-American (1897, 1898, 1899, 1900) | |
Francis Gordon "Skim" Brown (September 9, 1879 – May 10, 1911) was an American college football player. He played for the Yale Bulldogs football team of Yale University from 1897 to 1900.[1] In 1900, he captained the Yale football team which was referred to as the "Team of the Century".[2] He was also an academic leader of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Biography[]
Brown was born in New York City, September 6, 1879, to Francis Gordon Brown, Sr. and Julia Noyes Tracy.[3]
After his college career, he entered the banking business, before he died from diabetes at age 31.[4] He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954. He is the namesake of the Gordon Brown Memorial Prize.[5]
References[]
- ↑ "Yale Football". https://books.google.com/books?id=0XuqzuUHOIMC&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30.
- ↑ Kelley, Brooks Mather (1999-01-01) (in en). Yale: A History. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300078439. https://books.google.com/books?id=B2aDRhohtx8C.
- ↑ "Yale Finding Aid Database : Guide to the Francis Gordon Brown Papers". http://drs.library.yale.edu/HLTransformer/HLTransServlet?stylename=yul.ead2002.xhtml.xsl&pid=mssa:ms.1321&clear-stylesheet-cache=yes.
- ↑ "YALE'S FAMOUS CAPTAIN DEAD - Francis Gordon Brown, Football Guard in 1897-1900, Dies of Diabetes. - Obituary - NYTimes.com". 11 May 1911. https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B02E4D81439E333A25752C1A9639C946096D6CF.
- ↑ "Yale Endowments". https://books.google.com/books?id=gg84AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA77&lpg=PA77.
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