Education
Whitehouse High School.
Whitehouse High School.
He is best known for being the head men"s basketball coach at Stephen F. Austin State University between 1959 and 1978 in which he compiled an overall record of 345 wins and 168 losses. The 31 wins was a school record that stood until 2013-2014, and the Lumberjacks scored 100+ points in a game 11 times that season. Brown also coached at the high school and junior college levels.
As a basketball player, Brown played at Lon Morris College after graduating from Whitehouse High School (Whitehouse, Texas) in 1936.
He transferred to Texas Technical and played for the Red Raiders, where he graduated in 1940. Professionally, Brown played for the National Basketball League"s Cleveland Allmen Transfers in 10 games during the 1945-1946 season.
He averaged 3.6 points per game. In 2003, Brown was inducted into the Stephen F. Austin Hall of Fame.
Marshall Brown played semi-professional baseball during most of the 1940s.
He was an outfielder and played for the Lamesa Lobos (1940–1941), Pampa Oilers (1942), Tyler Trojans (1946), and Kilgore Drillers (1947–1948, 1950). His career batting average was.324 and he hit 47 home runs.
His wins are the most in school history, and during his tenure he won five Lone Star Conference championships. Brown also led the Lumberjacks to five National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Tournament appearances, with his best finish coming in 1971-1972: that season, his team went 31–3 overall en route to a third place finish at the national tournament, losing in the semifinal to eventual national champion Kentucky State 87 to 82.