Elwood Brown
Elwood Stanley Brown (April 9, 1883 – March 24, 1924) was an American sports organizer in Illinois, Manila, Europe, and South America. In his short life, he had a number of major accomplishments, such as, the intensive promotion of sports among Filipinos. Introducing international sports competitions in Asia. The promotion of the Olympics around the world. Founding of the first Boy Scout troops in the Philippines (1910), initiating and organizing the American Expeditionary Forces games and its corollary the Inter-Allied Games at the end of the War in Europe.
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 9, 1883 Cherokee, Iowa, U.S. |
| Died | March 24, 1924 (aged 40) Englewood, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1903–1906 | Wheaton (IL) |
| 1905–1906 | Illinois |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 33–30–1 |
Brown worked closely with Charles Pierre de Fredy, Baron de Coubertin and the International Olympic Committee in propagating the Olympic ideal through the YMCA.
"After his death, the close relationship between the IOC and the YMCA faded... there was no man of the calibre of Elwood S. Brown to carry on the work he had started." (–Buchanan, 1998)