Career
In 1948, he became the United States" second Olympic men"s basketball coach. Browning led the team to a final record of 8-0 en route to a gold medal in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. He was selected for the Amateur Athletic Union All-American (all-star) team
The following year, playing for the Santa Fe Trailways team of Kansas City, he again was named All-American helping to take Santa Fe to third place over the Hutchinson Western Transits, 35-33.
The following year, Browning was recruited by the Phillips 66ers, who after a lapse of several years, reconstituted a new team to compete in the 1937 Amateur Athletic Union championship. Browning joined such players as Joe Fortenberry, Jack Ragland, Chuck Hyatt, and Tom Pickell.
The next two years the team took second in the national tournament, losing to the Denver Safeway Stores both times in the title game. Finally, in 1940, Browning played on his second national championship team, as the Phillips 66ers took their first Amateur Athletic Union title, beating their nemesis the Denver team, now known as the Nuggets, in the title game, 39-36.
In 1941, he played on the Phillips 66ers third place team, and in 1942 on the second place team
The following year, he was named player-coach for the 66ers, and went on to an even more famous career as a coach. After winning five consecutive titles as first player-coach and then coach of the Phillips 66ers, in 1948 he became the United States"s second Olympic men"s basketball coach. Browning led the team to a final record of 8-0 en route to a gold medal in the 1948 Olympics in London, England.
Browning retired from coaching after 1948, but came back and coached the Phillips 66ers for one year in 1954.
The team was not a factor in the Amateur Athletic Union tournament. Browning returned to coaching the Phillips 66ers in 1959.
Browning also coached the Phillips 66ers in the National Alliance of Basketball Leagues, and led them to two more Amateur Athletic Union championships, in 1962 and 1963. In 1957 Browning was named to the Helms Amateur Basketball Hall of fame.