Gordon Brown (guard)
American football player (1879-1911)
Francis Gordon "Skim" Brown Jr. (September 6, 1879 – May 10, 1911) was an American college football guard who played for the Yale Bulldogs. He is one of only five players to have been recognized as a consensus All-American in four separate seasons.
Brown captained the 1900 Yale football team, which went 12–0, outscored its opposition 336–10, fielded seven All-Americans, was retroactively awarded the national championship, and was dubbed the "Team of the Century."
Biography
Brown was born in New York City to Francis Gordon Brown Sr. and Julia Noyes Tracy. His uncle was J. P. Morgan.
Brown is one of four players in history to have been recognized as a consensus College Football All-American in four separate seasons. One of the other three players, Truxtun Hare, overlapped exactly with Brown's career; he played at Penn from 1897 to 1900. Ironically, they never played against each other in college; the Ivy League did not exist at the time. However, they played each other in high school.
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