[4] Brown served as the head football coach at Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute—now Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University—in 1902, at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1904, and Washington and Lee University from 1905 to 1908.

In 1905, Brown accepted a position as the athletic director and coach at Washington and Lee.

Brown and professional, precision coaching in 1910, interest in the sport boomed and regional success followed.

[15] In April 1928, Brown was selected as an aid in the southwest to Notre Dame Fighting Irish football coach Knute Rockne.

In a passport application filed that same year, he identified his profession as an athletic director and teacher.

[1][18] At the time of the 1930 U.S. Census, Brown was still living in Roswell, New Mexico, where he was employed as a teacher at the state school.