Lob Brown
{{Short description|American football player}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox college football player
|name=Lob Brown
|image=lobbrown.jpg
|image_size=180px
|caption=Brown c. 1906
|currentposition=Tackle
|school=Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
|class=1905
|height_ft=5
|height_in=10
|weight_lb=178
|pastschools=Georgia Tech (1904–1906)
|highlights=
- All-Southern (1904, 1906)
- Georgia Tech Athletics Hall of Fame
}}
William S. "Lob" or "Lobster" Brown was a college football player.
Georgia Tech
Brown was a prominent tackle for the Georgia Tech Golden Tornado of the Georgia Institute of Technology. He came from Chattanooga, Tennessee.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6940101/the_atlanta_constitution/|work=Atlanta Constitution|title=Facts About Tech Team|page=13|accessdate=October 8, 2016|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}} He was elected to the Georgia Tech Athletics Hall of Fame in 1966.{{cite web|url=http://www.ramblinwreck.com/extras/local/halloffame.html|title=Georgia Tech Athletics Hall of Fame|access-date=2014-11-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107055249/http://www.ramblinwreck.com/extras/local/halloffame.html|archive-date=2017-11-07|url-status=dead}} In 1915 John Heisman selected him one of the 30 greatest Southern football players.{{cite news|url=https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn89053729/1915-02-01/ed-3/seq-5/print/image_681x810_from_0,0_to_5473,6517/|date=February 1, 1915|title=Dixie's Football Hall of Fame|work=Atlanta Georgian|author=J. W. Heisman}}
=1904=
Brown was selected All-Southern in 1904.{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3gs7AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA161|year=1904|page=161|journal=The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide|title=Football in the South}} Some publications claim he was Tech's first All-Southern player;{{cite web|url=http://history.library.gatech.edu/items/show/12188|title=Georgia Tech Football Team of 1904|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161010131529/http://history.library.gatech.edu/items/show/12188|archivedate=2016-10-10}} others list Jesse Thrash.{{cite web|url=http://issuu.com/gtathletics/docs/2011_georgia_tech_football_info_guide/149|title=2011 Georgia Tech Football Media Guide}}
=1906=
He also kicked, responsible for the win over Davidson by a 40-yard field goal.{{cite news|work=Atlanta Constitution|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1944533//|page=1|date=October 28, 1906|accessdate=March 8, 2015|title="Lobster" Brown|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}} Brown also helped Tech to its first defeat over Auburn in 1906.{{cite book|title=Creating the Big Game: John W. Heisman and the Invention of American Football|url=https://archive.org/details/creatingbiggamej00umph|url-access=registration|author=Wiley Lee Umphlett|page=[https://archive.org/details/creatingbiggamej00umph/page/92 92]|year=1992|isbn=9780313284045 }} He was captain-elect of 1907.{{cite news|work=Atlanta Georgian|title="Lobster" Brown Will Make Fine Leader For Tech Team|url=http://atlnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/atlnewspapers/view?docId=news/aga1906/aga1906-5706.xml&query=%22All%20southern%22%20football&query-prox=10&brand=atlnewspapers-brand|date=December 17, 1906}}{{cite book|title=The Ghosts of Herty Field: Early Days on a Southern Gridiron|author=John F. Stegeman|date=September 1997|page=77|isbn=9780820319599|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5fhrEs09af8C&pg=PA77}}
References
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{{1904 College Football Composite All-Southerns}}
{{1906 College Football Composite All-Southerns}}
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Category:American football tackles
Category:Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football players
Category:All-Southern college football players
Category:American football placekickers
Category:Players of American football from Chattanooga, Tennessee