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Ellison Myers Brown (September 22, 1913 – August 23, 1975), widely known as Tarzan Brown, was a Native American long-distance runner, best known as a two-time winner of the Boston Marathon, in 1936 and 1939. Brown ran the marathon in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin; he also qualified for the 1940 Summer Olympics, ultimately canceled due to the outbreak of World War II.
A direct descendant of the last acknowledged royal family of the Narragansett Indian Tribe of Rhode Island, Brown was also known as Deerfoot amongst his people. He is one of two Indigenous runners to have won the Boston Marathon; the other was Thomas Longboat, an Onondaga runner from the Six Nations of the Grand River in Canada, who won the 1907 edition. Brown is the only Indigenous person to have won the Boston Marathon twice. He was inducted into the American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame in 1973.
Brown set the American men's record for the marathon at the 1939 Boston Marathon (2:28:51) and at the 1940 marathon in Salisbury Beach, Massachusetts (2:27:30).
Brown was born on September 22, 1913, in the Potter Hill section of Westerly, Rhode Island, to Narragansett parents Byron Otis Brown (1879–1943) and Grace Ethel (Babcock) Brown (1882–1935). Brown had three sisters: Myra, Alice aka "Nina," and Grace; and three brothers: Franklin, Elwin and Clifford.
Brown received minimal formal education. He studied at the Tomaquag School in Alton for three years but left school by the seventh grade.
He was nicknamed "Tarzan" as a boy. He was athletic, strong, and loved being outdoors. He climbed trees and could swing from one branch to another, reminding those around him of Edgar Rice Burroughs‘s famous fictional hero.
Brown was first noticed for his running talent when he was 12 years old. As Native American runner Horatio "Chief" Stanton was training for an upcoming race, his trainer Thomas "Tippy" Salimeno, Sr. watched as the boy ran, following after Stanton and trying to keep pace.
Salimeno took the young athlete under his wing when Brown turned 16 and began to train him, his first official steps to an illustrious career in marathon running that eventually saw Brown win the Boston Marathon in both 1936 and 1939 and become a member of the 1936 U.S. Olympic team. Salimeno once said, "Tarzan ran against people, not against numbers. He probably could have broke other records, but I never pushed him. When you're in a race you don't go out for records, you go out to win."
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Ellison Brown
Ellison Myers Brown (September 22, 1913 – August 23, 1975), widely known as Tarzan Brown, was a Native American long-distance runner, best known as a two-time winner of the Boston Marathon, in 1936 and 1939. Brown ran the marathon in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin; he also qualified for the 1940 Summer Olympics, ultimately canceled due to the outbreak of World War II.
A direct descendant of the last acknowledged royal family of the Narragansett Indian Tribe of Rhode Island, Brown was also known as Deerfoot amongst his people. He is one of two Indigenous runners to have won the Boston Marathon; the other was Thomas Longboat, an Onondaga runner from the Six Nations of the Grand River in Canada, who won the 1907 edition. Brown is the only Indigenous person to have won the Boston Marathon twice. He was inducted into the American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame in 1973.
Brown set the American men's record for the marathon at the 1939 Boston Marathon (2:28:51) and at the 1940 marathon in Salisbury Beach, Massachusetts (2:27:30).
Brown was born on September 22, 1913, in the Potter Hill section of Westerly, Rhode Island, to Narragansett parents Byron Otis Brown (1879–1943) and Grace Ethel (Babcock) Brown (1882–1935). Brown had three sisters: Myra, Alice aka "Nina," and Grace; and three brothers: Franklin, Elwin and Clifford.
Brown received minimal formal education. He studied at the Tomaquag School in Alton for three years but left school by the seventh grade.
He was nicknamed "Tarzan" as a boy. He was athletic, strong, and loved being outdoors. He climbed trees and could swing from one branch to another, reminding those around him of Edgar Rice Burroughs‘s famous fictional hero.
Brown was first noticed for his running talent when he was 12 years old. As Native American runner Horatio "Chief" Stanton was training for an upcoming race, his trainer Thomas "Tippy" Salimeno, Sr. watched as the boy ran, following after Stanton and trying to keep pace.
Salimeno took the young athlete under his wing when Brown turned 16 and began to train him, his first official steps to an illustrious career in marathon running that eventually saw Brown win the Boston Marathon in both 1936 and 1939 and become a member of the 1936 U.S. Olympic team. Salimeno once said, "Tarzan ran against people, not against numbers. He probably could have broke other records, but I never pushed him. When you're in a race you don't go out for records, you go out to win."
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