William Harold Browne

Head Basketball Coach, University of Nebraska

Record crowds, improved team play and individual finesse and a
Conference championship (shared by Kunsas U.) were only a few of the accom-
plishments of W. H. Browne, head basketball coach at the University of
Nebraska, during the 1936-37 season.

This year Coach Browne is starting his sixth season as coach of
the Cornhusker basketball squad. Bzowne became associated with the University
of Nebraska as freshman basketball and football and head varsity baseball
coach in 1930-31.

In 1932 Browne became head basketball coach and assistant varsity
football coach at Nebraska. In football he was a valuable assistant to
Dana X. Bible for five years and last season performed the same duties for
Major Lawrence "Biff" Jones. Browne's work dealt chiefly with the ends but
he was of untold value to the team as head scout.

Coach Browne has been a member of the research and visual inves-
tigation committee of the National Association for Basketball Coaches and
has written an untold number of technical articles on basketball and
anysical education activities for national publications.

Previous to 1930 Browne had headed the department of physical
education at Lincoln high school for 10 years, and coaches the football
and basketball teams.

His football teams lost only three games during that 10-year
period, attracting national attention by defeating Lane Tech of Chicago
and twice turning back the strong Waite high eleven of Tcledo, Oiiio.

Browne's high school basketball teams, playing difficult schedules,
won better than 75 per cent of its games and three times were state champions.

He was born in Pert William, Ohio, July 18, 1899. Browne graduated
from Morton high school, Richmond, Indiana; attended E.rlham College at
Richmond and State Nermal at LuCrosse, Wisconsin. He was graduated from
the American Gymnastic School at Iudianapolis, I.diana, with a Bachelor
of Physical Education degree and received Bachelor of Science and Muster
of Arts degrees at the University of Nebraska.

Browne is a captain in the Nebraska National Guard, commanding
Headquarters Co., 110th Quartermaster Regiment. He is a member of the Phi
Egsilon Kappa and Sigma Pui Epsilon, social fraternities, and Phi Delta
Kappa, educational fraternity. He is a Mason, Shriner and Jester. Browne
is married and has two children, Dorothy Jean and Billy.