Chigger Browne

{{Short description|American football player and track coach (1888–1955)}}

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| name = Chigger Brown

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1888|8|3}}

| birth_place = Memphis, Tennessee

| death_date = {{Death date and age|mf=y|1955|3|2|1888|8|3}}

| death_place = Stockton, California

| alma_mater = Sewanee:The University of the South

| player_years1 = 1908–1910

| player_team1 = Sewanee

| player_positions = Quarterback

| coach_sport1 = Track and field:

| coach_years2 = 1926–1927

| coach_team2 = Florida

| coach_sport3 = Football:

| coach_years4 = 1928

| coach_team4 = Florida (intramurals)

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| championships = SIAA championship (1909)

| awards = All-Southern (1909, 1910)
Sewanee All-Time Football Team

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Alvin Lowell "Chigger" Browne{{Cite journal |date=1956 |title=Deaths |url=http://www.mocavo.com/Sewanee-Alumni-News-February-1956-Volume-22/906105/14 |journal=Sewanee Alumni News |page=14}} (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.{{Cite journal |date=1952 |title=Brown Is All-Time Tiger Great |url=https://archive.org/stream/sewaneealumninew18univ#page/n53/mode/2up/search/chigger |journal=Sewanee Alumni News |page=15}} He was twice selected All-Southern,{{Cite journal |year=2011 |title=National and Southern Honors |url=http://issuu.com/sewaneeathletics/docs/sewaneefootball2011 |journal=Sewanee Football Media Guide |page=31}}e. g. {{Closed access}} {{Cite news |date=December 8, 1910 |title=All S. I. A. A. Team. |work=Times-Picayune |url=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}} and mentioned by Grantland Rice as one of the great little men of the sport, once weighing only 111 pounds.{{Cite news |last=Grantland Rice |author-link=Grantland Rice |date=January 31, 1942 |title=Hogan and Hinkey Rate Among Best Little Men |work=The Miami News |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2206&dat=19420131&id=WwYtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Y9QFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4179,6360219}} 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."{{Cite news |last=Grantland Rice |date=June 18, 1937 |title=Size Doesn't Make Athlete |work=The Milwaukee Journal |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19370618&id=raVQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JSIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5092,6341357}} He could run 100 meters in 10 seconds flat.{{Cite news |date=November 11, 1908 |title=Sewanee Here On Saturday |work=Atlanta Constitution}} At Sewanee he was a member of Kappa Alpha Order.{{Cite journal |date=1909 |title=Alpha-Alpha |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pJhOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA200X |journal=The Kappa Alpha Journal |volume=27 |issue=2 |page=200}}

=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."

=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.{{Cite book |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19921017&id=5MswAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VgcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6824,5248248&hl=en |title=Old Yearbook Filled with Future Leaders |date=October 17, 1992 |work=Ocala Star Banner}}