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Willie Brown
Date of birth	March 21, 1942
Place of birth	Tuscaloosa, Alabama, U.S.
Date of death	July 26, 2018 (aged 76)
Place of death	Carson, California, U.S.
Career information
Position(s)	Running back, wide receiver, defensive back
Height	6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Weight	188 lb (85 kg)
US college	USC
High school	Long Beach Polytechnic (Long Beach, California)
AFL draft	1964 / round: 6th / pick: 48th
Drafted by	San Diego Chargers
NFL draft	1964 / round: 3rd / pick: 32nd
Drafted by	Los Angeles Rams
Career history
As player
1964–1965	Los Angeles Rams
1966	Philadelphia Eagles
Career highlights and awards
	National champion (1962); First-team All-PCC (1963); Second-team All-PCC (1962);
Career stats
	Playing stats at DatabaseFootball.com;

Willie Brown (March 21, 1942 – July 26, 2018) was an American college and professional football player and coach. A star college football player for the USC Tojans, he went on to play three seasons in the National Football League (NFL). After his playing career, he served as a coach for the Trojans and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL.

Playing career

Brown played high school football at Long Beach Polytechnic High School, where he won the California Interscholastic Federation player of the year award in 1959.^[1]

Brown went on to play college football at the University of Southern California (USC). As he was a two-way player for the Trojans, he began as a tailback and kickoff returner but also played defensive back and flanker. In 1962, he led the Trojans, who went on to win the national championship, in rushing, kickoff returns and interceptions. In 1963, as the team captain, he led the team in receiving, scoring and interceptions.^[1]^[2]

He was also a standout baseball player, who was a center fielder and shortstop for the university's baseball team that won the 1963 College World Series.^[1]^[3]

In the 1964 NFL draft, the Los Angeles Rams selected him with the fourth pick of the third round, 32nd overall. He played two seasons with the Rams before finishing his playing career with the Philadelphia Eagles. He accumulated 133 rushing yards and 110 receiving yards in the NFL.

Coaching career

Brown returned to USC as an assistant football coach from 1968 to 1975 and helped the Trojans win national championships in 1972 and 1974. He also served as a Trojan baseball assistant in 1969 and in 1970, when USC won the 1970 College World Series.^[4]

In 1976 and 1978, he went to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers where he served as the wide receivers coach and in 1977, the team's running backs coach.^[5] In his later years, Brown was an academic monitor for USC's Student-Athlete Academic Services from 1996 to 2016.^[1]

Personal life

Brown had two brothers, Oscar and Ollie, both of whom played Major League Baseball. Ollie, who was the first pick by the San Diego Padres in the 1968 Major League Baseball expansion draft and was known as the “Original Padre”, died in 2015.^[4]^[2]

Brown died on July 26, 2018, in Carson, California, from cancer.^[1]