Earl M. Brown Jr. (October 23, 1915 – September 23, 2003) was an

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and

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player and coach. He served as the head football coach at

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(1943–1944), the

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(1945),

Canisius College Canisius College is a private Jesuit college in Buffalo, New York. It was founded in 1870 by Jesuits from Germany and is named after St. Peter Canisius. Canisius offers more than 100 undergraduate majors and minors, and around 34 master's ...

(1946–1947), and

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(1948–1950), compiling a career

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record of 27–36–6. Brown was also the head basketball coach at

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(1941–1943), Dartmouth (1943–1944), the

(1945–1946), and Canisius (1946–1948), tallying a career

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mark of 72–70. He led Dartmouth to the finals of the 1944 NCAA basketball tournament. Brown is notorious for his stretch at as football coach at Auburn, where he went 3–22–4, including a record of 0–10 in his final season, when the Tigers were outscored 285–31. Brown's first season as the head coach at Auburn was also the first season Auburn and the

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met on the gridiron since 1907; Auburn lost, 55–0. The next season, though, he coached Auburn to one of the greatest upsets in its history, when the

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, who entered the game with a record of 1–4–3, stunned heavily favored

, who entered the game with a 6–2–1 record, 14–13. Brown played football and basketball at the

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. He was an assistant coach at

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, and the head coach at Dartmouth from 1943 to 1944, where he compiled a record of 8–6–1. In 1945, he posted a 5–3 record in his only season as the head coach at the

. After leaving Auburn, Brown later served as an assistant coach for the

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. Brown died on September 23, 2003, in

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Head coaching record

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