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Chigger Browne
Alvin Lowell "Chigger" Browne[1] (August 3, 1888 – March 2, 1955) was a college football player and track coach. SewaneeBrowne was a quarterback for the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee: The University of the South from 1908 to 1910. Browne also played baseball, basketball, and track.[2] He was twice selected All-Southern,[3][4] and mentioned by Grantland Rice as one of the great little men of the sport, once weighing only 111 pounds.[5] He was most often listed as some 5 feet 8 inches tall and 125 pounds. Rice also said he was "harder to surround and tackle than a flea."[6] He could run 100 meters in 10 seconds flat.[7] At Sewanee he was a member of Kappa Alpha Order.[8] 1908College Football Hall of Fame quarterback Harry Van Surdam, coach of the 1908 team, said of Browne, he "was the greatest quarterback that I have ever seen in my 50 years of being connected with football as a coach and official . . . he was fast as lightning and wasn't afraid of anything. Chigger was so small that we had to keep him taped up to prevent him from getting broken up . . . We had only 18 men on the squad. If we wanted to scrimmage we had to bend the line around."[2] 1909Browne was quarterback on the SIAA champion 1909 team. Coaching careerUniversity of FloridaHe coached the Florida Gators track team of the University of Florida in 1926 and 1927.[9] See alsoReferences
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