He won the 6-mile run and 3-mile run (imperial equivalents of the 10,000 metres and 5000 metres) at the 1965 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, setting championship records in both events.

[2] Brown won his first ever race, a half-mile run as a child in the 7th grade.

[2] In 1965, Brown won two titles at the 1965 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, competing for the Montana Grizzlies track and field team.

[4] Brown was originally from Carbon County, Montana, where he attended Red Lodge High School.

He later moved to Missoula, Montana, and became a track and field coach at Sentinel High School.