Marshall Brown (basketball, born 1918) (1918–2008), American professional basketball player in the United States' National Basketball League; head coach for Stephen F. Austin State University men's basketball team
Marshall Earl Brown (June 28, 1918 – August 20, 2008) was an American professional basketball player, minor league baseball player, and college basketball coach.
Basketball career
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. 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 NAIA Tournament appearances, with his best finish coming in 1971–72: 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. The 31 wins was a school record that stood until 2013–14, 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 Tech 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 1945–46 season. He averaged 3.6 points per game. In 2003, Brown was inducted into the Stephen F. Austin Hall of Fame.
Brown attended Lyndon B. Johnson High School in Austin, Texas where he played basketball under head coach Freddy Roland. As a junior in 2002–03, he averaged 24 points, seven rebounds and three assists per game.
Brown earned first-team All-State and first-team All-Region honors playing for Lyndon B. Johnson as a junior and senior, was a three-time all-district selection, and was named the Cen-Tex Player of the Year by the Austin American-Statesman as a senior in 2003–04.
Marshall Brown (1920–1983) was a jazz musician and educator. He played trombones and, less often, bass trumpet or euphonium, and even less often electric bass & banjo. He played the valve trombone.
Brown was little recorded, and devoted most of his career to education. He earned a music degree from New York University, as a member of the Zeta Psi Fraternity.
Marshall Brown was also a high school band director leading the Farmingdale New York 'Daler' Band from the early 1950s through 1957.
Brown was the first high school band director to initiate a jazz education program, which he did in his tenure at Farmingdale High.
By 1956 his stage band (jazz big band) the Daler Dance Band was so formidable and impressive (boasting future jazz stars Michael Abene on piano, Andrew Marsala,
saxophone, and whiz drummer Larry Ramsden) that one night at the '57 Newport Jazz Festival, Count Basie, late for his appearance, as he
entered the festival grounds heard the Daler Band performing their set and exclaimed, "Damn, they started already", mistaking the 'Dalers'
for his band! The average age of the band members was 14!
When MarshallBrown wrote the songs that would eventually make up his September EP “Nesting,” he was "a (expletive) mess." ... Marshall Brown's latest EP, "Nesting," represents a new era and sound for the Columbia musician.
The grand marshals for the parade will be former members of the Van DykeBand, a group that will be honored at Carr’s Beach on June 19, Coates said ...RolandBrown and his brother Alber will be the grand marshals,” he said.
It's fairly easy to write off Shows — made up of South Carolina musicians Dylan Dickerson, MarshallBrown and Brett Nash — as something of a vanity project or akin to a joke.
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