Robert S. Brown

(1941- ) lived in Lincoln. Professional football player, businessman, while playing 10 seasons as a dominant offensive tackle for three National Football League teams, he was chosen to play in six Pro Bowls, named to All-NFL team seven times for his aggressive blocking and quickness, previously played for University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 1961 to 1963; inducted into Professional Football Hall of Fame in 2004. Consult Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Football (Greenwood Press, 1987) 71 and Omaha World Herald, August 16, 1994, p. 18 and Ralph Hickok, A Who's Who of Sports Champions (Houghton-Mifflin, 1995) 98 and Lincoln Journal Star, August 7, 2004, pp. D-1, D-6.

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