[1] Tom Brown was a prominent tackle on Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores football teams,[2] selected All-Southern.

[3] As a freshman, he took part in the scoreless tie of defending national champion Yale.

[1] In World War I he served in the Army Medical Corps as a lieutenant.

[1] While with them, according to author Emil Klosinski, he played a part in the worst loss ever suffered by legendary coach Knute Rockne, a 40 to 0 win in 1917 over the "South Bend Jolly Fellows Club.

"[5] He was a Fellow in the American College of Surgeons and President of the Lucas County Academy of Medicine.