Elwood Brown
Elwood S. Brown
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| Biographical details | |
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| Born |
April 9, 1883 Cherokee, Iowa, U.S.A. |
| Died | March 24, 1924 (aged 40) Englewood, New Jersey |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1905–1906 | Illinois (basketball) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 6–8 (3–6 Big Ten) |
Elwood Stanley Brown was an American sports organizer in Illinois, Manila, Europe, and South America. In his short life, he made three huge accomplishments: (1) the intensive promotion of sports among Filipinos, (2) originating international sports competitions in Asia, and (3) the promotion of the Olympics around the world. In addition, he started (1910) the first Boy Scout troops in the Philippines, and initiated and organised the American Expeditionary Forces games and its corollary the Inter-Allied Games at the end of the War in Europe.
Brown worked closely with Charles Pierre de Fredy, Baron de Coubertin and the International Olympic Committee in propagating the Olympic ideal through the YMCA.
"After his death, the close relationship between the IOC and the YMCA faded... there was no man of the calibre of Elwood S. Brown to carry on the work he had started." (–Buchanan, 1998)
Brown died of complications from a heart attack on March 24, 1924, three weeks short of his 41st birthday.
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