Background
Innis Brown was born on March 31, 1884 in Franklin, Tennessee to Enoch Brown, Senior and Lucinda Allen.
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Innis"s younger brother Enock "Nuck" Brown was captain of the 1913 Vanderbilt Commodores football team Innis was a prominent guard for Dan McGugin"s Vanderbilt Commodores football teams of He was also a Rhodes Scholar. 1905
In 1905 Brown was captain and selected All-Southern of the 1905 team
One publication claims "The first scouting done in the South was in 1905, when Dan McGugin and Captain Innis Brown, of Vanderbilt went to Atlanta to see Sewanee play Georgia Technology"
Upon graduation, he went to as a civil engineer
By 1912 he was a referee throughout the South, chosen by the Atlanta Constitution to pick its All-Southern team that year. He was then a sportswriter, taking charge of the sports section of the Atlanta Journal.
Golf
Brown was also an avid golfer, being the managing editor of American Golfer in 1919 with Grantland Rice.
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