Raymond Lloyd Brown (September 7, 1936 – December 25, 2017) was a professional American football

defensive back In gridiron football, defensive backs (DBs), also called the secondary, are the players on the defensive side of the ball who play farthest back from the line of scrimmage. They are distinguished from the other two sets of defensive players, the ...

in the National Football League (NFL). After playing

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for the

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, he was drafted by the

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in the fifth round (50th overall) of the

1958 NFL Draft The 1958 National Football League draft had its first four rounds held on December 2, 1957, and its final twenty-six rounds on January 28, 1958. Both sessions were held at the Warwick Hotel in Philadelphia. This was the 12th and final year in ...

. He played three seasons for the Baltimore Colts (1958–1960), and was a member of their back-to-back world championships in 1958 and 1959. In 1962, Brown graduated from the University of Mississippi School of Law, where he was associate editor of the ''Mississippi Law Journal''. He then clerked for a year for U.S. Supreme Court Justice

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. Brown died on December 25, 2017, in Gautier, Mississippi, at age 81.Ex-Sugar Bowl MVP Raymond Brown dies in Mississippi
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1936 births 2017 deaths Sportspeople from Clarksdale, Mississippi Sportspeople from Greenville, Mississippi Players of American football from Mississippi American football defensive backs American football quarterbacks Ole Miss Rebels football players Baltimore Colts players Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States {{defensiveback-1930s-stub

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