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Albert Boixa "Chigger" Browne (August 3, 1888 – March 2, 1955) was a college football player and track coach.
Sewanee
Browne 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. He was twice selected All-Southern, and mentioned by Grantland Rice as one of the great little men of the sport, once weighing only 111 pounds. 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." He could run 100 meters in 10 seconds flat. At Sewanee he was a member of Kappa Alpha.
= 1908
=College 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."
= 1909
=Browne was quarterback on the SIAA champion 1909 team.
Coaching career
= University of Florida
=He coached the Florida Gators track team of the University of Florida in 1926 and 1927.
See also
1909 Sewanee Tigers football team
1910 College Football All-Southern Team
Tick Tichenor
References
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- Chigger Browne
- Chigger (disambiguation)
- Carol Thomson Slowik
- List of Sewanee: The University of the South people
- John Shoop
- Percy Beard
- Sewanee Tigers football
- Harold Sebring
- Reynolds Tichenor
- Mike Holloway
