Ralph Brown (American football, born 1925) Ralph Brown (American football, born 1925) J. Ralph Brown (born c. 1925) is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas from 1959 to 1961, compiling a record of 9–18. Brown played as a fullback in 1946 at Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College—now knwon as Oklahoma State University–Stillwater. The next year, he transferred to the University of Kansas to play center. He did not play his last two years of college because of a back injury. After working in the high school ranks and as an assistant coach
Jim Brown old and just ending his elite career. Harris clocked in at 5.16 seconds, and Brown in at 5.72 seconds. In 1965, Brown was the first African-American to announce a televised boxing match in the United States, for the Terrell-Chuvalo fight, and is also credited with then first suggesting a career in boxing promotion to Bob Arum. Brown's autobiography, published in 1989 by Zebra Books, was titled "Out of Bounds" and was co-written with Steve Delsohn. He was a subject of the book "Jim: The Author's Self-Centered Memoir of the Great Jim Brown", by James Toback. In 1993, Brown was hired