Earl M. Brown Jr. (October 23, 1915 – September 23, 2003) was an American football and basketball player and coach.
Brown is notorious for his stretch at as football coach at Auburn, where he went 3–22–4, including a record of 0–10 in his final season, when the Tigers were outscored 285–31.
The next season, though, he coached Auburn to one of the greatest upsets in its history, when the Tigers, who entered the game with a record of 1–4–3, stunned heavily favored Alabama, who entered the game with a 6–2–1 record, 14–13.
In 1945, he posted a 5–3 record in his only season as the head coach at the United States Merchant Marine Academy.
After leaving Auburn, Brown later served as an assistant coach for the Detroit Lions.