Raymond Lloyd Brown (September 7, 1936 – December 25, 2017) was a professional
American football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...
defensive back in the
National Football League
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the ...
(NFL). After playing
college football for the
Ole Miss Rebels
The Ole Miss Rebels are the 18 men's and women's intercollegiate athletic teams that are funded by and represent the University of Mississippi, located in Oxford. The first was the football team, which began play in 1893.
Originally known as th ...
, he was drafted by the
Baltimore Colts 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
The University of Mississippi School of Law, also known as Ole Miss Law, is an ABA-accredited law school located on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi. The School of Law offers the only dedicated aerospace law curr ...
, where he was associate editor of the ''Mississippi Law Journal''. He then clerked for a year for U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Tom C. Clark. Brown died on December 25, 2017, in
Gautier, Mississippi
Gautier ( ) is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, United States, along the Gulf of Mexico west of Pascagoula. It is part of the Pascagoula Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 18,572 at the 2010 census, up from 11,681 at the 20 ...
, at age 81.
Ex-Sugar Bowl MVP Raymond Brown dies in Mississippi
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References
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
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