Innis Brown (March 31, 1884 – January 23, 1961) was a college football player, referee, sportswriter, and civil engineer.

Innis's younger brother Enock "Nuck" Brown was captain of the 1913 Vanderbilt Commodores football team.

[3][4] One publication claims "The first scouting done in the South was in 1905, when Dan McGugin and Captain Innis Brown, of Vanderbilt went to Atlanta to see Sewanee play Georgia Tech.

"[5] He spent the 1906 season as the head football coach at Southwestern Presbyterian University – now Rhodes College – in Clarksville, Tennessee.

[3] Having served as editor on Vanderbilt's campus newspaper, the Hustler, Brown began his writing career on the old Nashville American in 1906.