Francis Gordon "Skim" Brown Jr. (September 6, 1879 – May 10, 1911) was an American college football guard who played for the Yale Bulldogs.

[7] During his college career, Brown lost only four games in four years, going 37-4-3; the 1897 and 1900 teams were retroactively declared national champions.

[14][15][16] (In reality, Yale's fullback Perry Hale, the future Ohio State head coach, took several punts in the Columbia game.

"[18] However, Brown was occasionally accused of dirty play during his Yale career;[19] his high school principal once asked him about reports that he had instructed his team to commit holding penalties "if the umpire didn't see them."

[27] Two years after his death, his friends donated the Gordon Brown Memorial Prize to Yale University in his honor.

[28] The prize was initially awarded to the Yale junior who "most closely approach[es] the standards of intellectual ability, high manhood, capacity for leadership and service to the University set by Francis Gordon Brown.