- For information on all Brown University sports, see Brown Bears
The Brown Bears football program is the intercollegiate American football team for Brown University located in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) and are members of the Ivy League. Brown's first football team was fielded in 1878. The team plays its home games at the 20,000 seat Brown Stadium in Providence, Rhode Island. The Bears are coached by Phil Estes.
History
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In the middle of the 1926 season, the âIron Menâ came into being when the same 11 players played against Yale for 60 minutes and a 7-0 win. The next week the same 11 players played without substitution against Dartmouth and won 10-0. Two weeks later the Iron Men played 58 minutes against Harvard, but in the last two minutes the substitutes came in to earn their letters. Brown won all its games that year until the Thanksgiving game against Colgate ended in a 10-10 tie. The famed âIron Menâ were Thurston Towle â28, Paul Hodge â28, Orland Smith â27, Charles Considine â28, Lou Farber â29, Ed Kevorkian â29, Hal Broda â27, Al Cornsweet â29, Dave Mishel â27, Ed Lawrence â28, and Roy Randall â28.
Brown players elected to the College Football Hall of Fame are John W. Heisman 1891, DeOrmond McLaughry, Frederick D. Pollard â19, Edward North Robinson 1896, and Wallace Wade â17.
Notable former players
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Notable alumni include:
- Fritz Pollard
- Joe Paterno
- Kyle Rowley
- James Develin
- John Heisman
- Zak DeOssie
Year-by-year results
Championships
They have never won the national championship.
Conference championships
Bowl game appearances
Rivalries
Harvard
The Bears and Crimson meet annually in the first game of the Ivy League football season. The result of the game almost always determines how the season will play out. In 2008, Brown beat Harvard for the first time in nearly a decade, 24-22, in Providence. The two teams would end up sharing the Ivy League title with matching 6-1 records.
University of Rhode Island
References
External links
- Official website
- "Encyclopedia Brunoniana," by Martha Mitchell, Brown University
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