Elwood Brown

Elwood Stanley Brown

File:Fighting Illini coach Elwood Brown.png Elwood S. Brown
Biographical details
Born	(1883-04-09)April 9, 1883 Cherokee, Iowa, U.S.
Died
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1905–1906	Illinois (basketball)
Head coaching record
Overall	6–8 (3–6 Big Ten)

Elwood Stanley Brown (April 9, 1883 – March 24, 1924) was an American college basketball coach for the University of Illinois from 1905 to 1906.

Brown is also credited for the development of the Philippine Amateur Athletic Federation (PAAF) the Far Eastern Athletic Association (FEAA) and the Inter-Allied Games. As the physical director of the American YMCA in Manila, Philippines, Brown is credited for introducing volleyball and basketball to the Philippines in 1910.

Elwood Brown played a landmark role in the history of Boy Scouting in the Philippines.

Brown died of complications from a heart attack on March 24, 1924, three weeks prior to his 41st birthday.

Further reading

• Stefan Huebner, Pan-Asian Sports and the Emergence of Modern Asia, 1913-1974. Singapore: NUS Press, 2016.
• Stefan Huebner, “Muscular Christianity and the ‘Western Civilizing Mission’: Elwood S. Brown, the YMCA and the Idea of the Far Eastern Championship Games,” in: Diplomatic History 39,3 (2015), 535-557. http://dh.oxfordjournals.org/content/39/3/532.full.pdf+html
• Stefan Huebner, “Making the Weak and Degenerated Races of East Asia ready for Self-Government: American and East Asian Views of Sport and Body in Early Twentieth-Century East Asia,” in: Walter Demel / Rotem Kowner (eds.), Race and Racism in Modern East Asia. Vol. 2: Interactions, Nationalism, Gender and Lineage. Leiden 2015, 196-217. https://www.unibw.de/geschichte/neueste/stefanhuebner/uplifting/at_download/file

External links

• Research project on games in Asia