Innis Brown
| Vanderbilt Commodores | |
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| Position | Guard/End |
| Class | Graduate |
| Career history | |
| College | Vanderbilt (1903–1905) |
| High school | Mooney School |
| Personal information | |
| Date of birth | March 31, 1884 |
| Place of birth | Franklin, Tennessee |
| Date of death | January 23, 1961 (aged 76) |
| Place of death | DeLeon Springs, Florida |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
| Weight | 166 lb (75 kg) |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Innis Brown (March 31, 1884 – January 23, 1961) was a college football player, referee, sportswriter, and civil engineer. His sports articles were nationally known, writing for the New York Sun and Hearts newspapers.
Innis Brown was born on March 31, 1884 in Franklin, Tennessee to Enoch Brown, Sr. and Lucinda Allen. Innis's younger brother Enock "Nuck" Brown was captain of the 1913 Vanderbilt Commodores football team. Both attended Mooney School.
Innis was a prominent guard for Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores football teams of Vanderbilt University. He was also a Rhodes Scholar.
In 1905 Brown was captain and selected All-Southern of the 1905 team. One publication claims "The first scouting done in the South was in 1905, when Dan McGugin and Captain Innis Brown, of Vanderbilt went to Atlanta to see Sewanee play Georgia Tech."
Upon graduation, he went to Mexico as a civil engineer.
By 1912 he was a referee throughout the South, chosen by the Atlanta Constitution to pick its All-Southern team that year.
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