Fiske Brown

{{Short description|American athlete (1901–1978)}}

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|position1=Guard

|birth_date={{Birth date|1901|6|13}}Massachusetts, Birth Records, 1840-1915

|birth_place=Plymouth, Massachusetts, U.S.

|death_date= {{dda|1978|5|30|1901|6|13}}Massachusetts, Death Index, 1970-2003

|death_place=Brockton, Massachusetts, U.S.

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|college=Harvard College

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|playing_years1=1920–1921

|playing_team1=Harvard

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• Consensus All-American (1921)

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John Fiske Brown (June 13, 1901 – May 30, 1978) was an American athlete who participated in American football, wrestling and track and field. He was a competitor in all three sports at Harvard University and a consensus All-American in football.

Brown was raised in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and attended preparatory school at Andover where he was a member of the football, wrestling and track teams.{{cite news|title=The Harvard University Register 1921-22|page=127|url=http://www.mocavo.com/The-Harvard-University-Register-1921-22-Volume-47/472389/150}}

As a guard for the Harvard Crimson football team, Browne was a consensus first-team selection for the 1921 College Football All-America Team.{{cite web|title=2014 NCAA Football Records: Consensus All-America Selections |publisher=National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) |year=2014 |accessdate=August 16, 2014 |page=5 |url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2014/Awards.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006082159/http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2014/Awards.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 6, 2014 }} He was also captain of Harvard's wrestling team and a competitor in the heavyweight class.{{cite news|title=Wrestlers Elect Captain: Fiske Brown Chosen to Lead Team|newspaper=Harvard Crimson|date=February 16, 1921|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1921/2/16/wrestlers-elect-captain-pafter-the-trials/}}{{cite news|title=47 Wrestlers at Harvard: Coach Edlinski and Captain Fiske Brown Talk to Candidates|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 6, 1921|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1921/12/06/98769046.pdf}} He was also the captain of the track and field team and a competitor in the shot put and hammer throw events.{{cite news|title=Brown to Lead Track Men: Football Star and Hammer Thrower Honored at Harvard|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 7, 1921|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1921/10/07/98750923.pdf}}{{cite news|title=Fiske Brown First in Hammer Throw|newspaper=Boston Daily Globe|date=April 11, 1922|url=https://secure.pqarchiver.com/boston/doc/504320465.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Apr+11%2C+1922&author=&pub=Boston+Daily+Globe+%281872-1922%29&edition=&startpage=&desc=FISKE+BROWN+FIRST+IN+HAMMER+THROW|access-date=August 19, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140820081721/https://secure.pqarchiver.com/boston/doc/504320465.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Apr+11%2C+1922&author=&pub=Boston+Daily+Globe+%281872-1922%29&edition=&startpage=&desc=FISKE+BROWN+FIRST+IN+HAMMER+THROW|archive-date=August 20, 2014|url-status=dead}} He set a record in the hammer throw for international meets between Yale, Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge with a distance of 159 feet, 4-3/4 inches.{{cite news|title=Records in Athletic Meets With Oxford and Cambridge|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 11, 1925|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F07E2DD113FE733A25752C1A9619C946495D6CF}}