William Harold Browne

Head Basketball Coach, University of Nebraska

Record crowds, improved team play and individual finesse were
only a few of the accomplisiments of W. H. Browne, head basketball coach
at the University during the 1937-58 season,

This year Coach Browns is starting his seventh season as coach
of the Cornhusker basketball team. Browne became associated with the
University of N ebraska 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 valuaole assistant to
Dana X. Bible for five years and the past two seasons 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
physical education activities for national publications.

Previous to 1930 Mr. Browne had headed the department of physical
education at Lincoln high school for ten years and coached the football and
basketball teams.

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

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

He was born in Port William, Ohio, July 18, 1899. Browne graduated
from Morton high school, Richmond, Indiana; attended Earlham College at
Richmond and State Normal at LaCrosse, Wisconsin. He was graduated from
the American Gymnastic School at Indianapolis, Indiana, with a Bachelor of
Physical Education degree and received Bachelor of Science and Master 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 Phi
Epsilon Kappa and Sigma Phi Epsilon, social fraternities, and Phi Delta
Kapya, educational fraternity. He is a Mason, Shriner and Jester. Browne
ig married and has two children, Dorothy Jean and Billy.