Brown coached Harvard's second team from 1902 to 1905. In 1906 head coach
Bill Reid promoted him to head of field work and scouting. Brown served as Harvard's chief scout and strategist under
Percy Haughton. Melville E. Webb Jr. credited Brown with being a "big factor in Crimson's success" and R. L. Groves credited Brown for Harvard's "excellent defensive system" in the 1914
Harvard–Yale game. Brown gave up his chief strategist role in 1917. From 1919 to 1921 he occasionally consulted the Harvard scouting staff and scouted
Navy for
Army. In 1922 he returned to coaching as an assistant to
Edward N. Robinson at Brown Robinson and Brown were let go after the 1925 season. On April 2, 1926, athletic director
George V. Brown hired Robinson and Brown to coach the
Boston University football team. It was hoped that the pair would be able to turn BU into a major football program, however, the school was unable to recruit top talent and did not turn out a winning product under Brown and Robinson. By 1930, BU, which had suffered from poor gate receipts during their losing seasons, decided to cut back on its coaches' salaries and reduced the coaching staff from three to two, which led to Brown and Robinson's departure. Brown was a member of the
Holy Cross coaching staff in 1932, scouted for
Northeastern in 1934, and was an assistant coach for the
National Football League's
Boston Redskins in 1935. In 1940, Brown was named Massachusetts director of physical activities for the national defense program of the
National Youth Administration. In 1944 he scouted for
Woburn Memorial High School. The following year he served as the interim coach of
Milford High School while head coach Charles Brucato was serving in the
United States Marine Corps. In 1947, Brown was named the head scout at
Boston College. Brown died on January 31, 1961, at his home in
Newton Centre, Massachusetts. ==Head coaching record==