Elwood Brown, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Elwood Brown

College basketball coach

Date of Birth: 09-Apr-1883

Place of Birth: Cherokee, Iowa, United States

Date of Death: 24-Mar-1924

Profession: basketball coach

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Elwood Brown

  • Elwood Stanley Brown was an American sports organizer in Illinois, Manila, Europe, and South America.
  • In his short life, he made three accomplishments: (1) the intensive promotion of sports among Filipinos, (2) originating international sports competitions in Asia, and (3) the promotion of the Olympics around the world.
  • In addition, he started (1910) the first Boy Scout troops in the Philippines, and initiated and organised the American Expeditionary Forces games and its corollary the Inter-Allied Games at the end of the War in Europe.Brown worked closely with Charles Pierre de Fredy, Baron de Coubertin and the International Olympic Committee in propagating the Olympic ideal through the YMCA. "After his death, the close relationship between the IOC and the YMCA faded...
  • there was no man of the calibre of Elwood S.
  • Brown to carry on the work he had started." (–Buchanan, 1998)

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