Career
A Queensland state and Australian international representative centre, he played club football in Toowoomba for Newtown. Brown, an Anglo-Australian who was nicknamed "Nigger" because of his fair complexion (or perhaps because of his use of the "Nigger Brown" variety of Kiwi shoe polish), became Toowoomba"s first rugby league international when he was selected to go on the 1921-1922 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain, during which he played four matches. Brown later served as a judge for The Sunday Herald"s player of the season award.
He was also president of the Toowoomba Rugby League during the eary 1950s and became a local councillor in Toowoomba.
He was Kangaroo Tour manager in 1954. In the 1960s a grandstand in Toowoomba"s main football stadium, the Toowoomba Sports Ground, was named the "East South "Nigger" Brown Stand" in his honour.
Brown died in 1972 aged 74. The "East South "Nigger" Brown Stand" later became the subject of a book, The North Word: One Manitoba"s Stand, by Stephen Hagan who campaigned for its removal.
When the stand was demolished in September 2008, the Toowoomba Sports Ground Incorporated decided not to use the "Nigger" nickname in future references to Brown.
