R. R. Brown
Brown pictured in The Calyx 1908, Washington and Lee yearbook
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| Sport(s) | Football, basketball, baseball |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
November 28, 1879 Joliet, Illinois |
| Died | December 24, 1950 (aged 71) Roswell, New Mexico |
| Playing career | |
| 1901 | Dartmouth |
| Position(s) | Fullback, halfback |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1902 | VPI |
| 1903 | VPI (assistant) |
| 1904 | North Carolina |
| 1905–1908 | Washington and Lee |
| 1909 | Tulane |
| 1910–1922 | New Mexico Military Institute |
| 1923–1925 | New Mexico A&M |
| Basketball | |
| 1922–1926 | New Mexico A&M |
| Baseball | |
| 1904 | VPI |
| 1906–1910 | Washington and Lee |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 52–20–9 (football) 48–31 (basketball) 45–34–3 (baseball, excluding 1906 season) |
| Bowls | 0–1 |
Robert Roswell "Buster" Brown (November 28, 1879 – December 24, 1950) was an American football player, coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and college athletics administrator. After playing college football at Dartmouth College, he coached football teams at Virginia Tech, North Carolina, Washington and Lee, and Tulane. In 1910, he moved to Roswell, New Mexico, where he served for more than 25 years as the football coach and athletic director at the New Mexico Military Institute.
Brown was born on November 28, 1879 in Joliet, Illinois. He attended high school in Elgin, Illinois, graduating in 1898. He played football and baseball in high school and also competed for the Elgin Athletic Club football team in 1898 and 1899. In 1900, he enrolled at Dartmouth College where he played football for the Dartmouth Big Green football team as a halfback and fullback. He attended Dartmouth from 1900 to 1903.
Brown served as the head football coach at Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute—now Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University—in 1902, at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1904, and Washington and Lee University from 1905 to 1908. In 1909, he was head football coach at Tulane University, which he led to a 4–3–2 record. Brown was also the head baseball coach at Virginia Tech in 1904.
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