![]() Brown pictured in The Calyx 1908, Washington and Lee yearbook | |
Biographical details | |
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Born | Joliet, Illinois, U.S. | November 28, 1879
Died | December 24, 1950 Roswell, New Mexico, U.S. | (aged 71)
Playing career | |
1901 | Dartmouth |
Position(s) | Fullback, halfback |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1902 | VPI |
1903 | VPI (assistant) |
1904 | North Carolina |
1905–1908 | Washington and Lee |
1909 | Tulane |
1910–1922 | New Mexico Military |
1923–1925 | New Mexico A&M |
Basketball | |
1922–1926 | New Mexico A&M |
Baseball | |
1904 | VPI |
1906–1910 | Washington and Lee |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
1923–1927 | New Mexico A&M |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 52–20–9 (football) 48–31 (basketball) 45–34–3 (baseball, excluding 1906 season) |
Bowls | 0–1 |
Robert Roswell "Buster" Brown (November 28, 1879 – December 24, 1950) was an American football player, coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and college athletics administrator. After playing college football at Dartmouth College, he coached football teams at Virginia Tech, North Carolina, Washington and Lee, and Tulane. In 1910, he moved to Roswell, New Mexico, where he served for more than 25 years as the football coach and athletic director at the New Mexico Military Institute.