The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-07
CHARLIE BROWN ISI RETAINED COACH PANTHER SQUAD
Relieved of Basketball Duties He Will Devote Time to
 Diamond and Grid
By HENRY VANCE

When Dr. Guy SnavelX, presi- dent of Birmingham Southern college, made the announcement Saturday that Charlie Brown had been retained as athletic coach at that institution and had signed his contract for another year, there were several whoops Of joy forthcoming from the proximity of Sunshine Slopes, with memb CTS of the alumni joining in on the chorus. Charlie Brown is the most popular man ever to appear in the capacity of athletic coach at the local institution, and his reappointment to the job means successful year for Birmingham Southern on the grid iron and on the baseball diamond
 Heretofore Coach Charlie has travelled under too heavy a burden. The load will be frightened in the fu ture, Instead of being forced to look after all branches of sports and athlet- ics, he will confne his activities to baseball and football. A man will be named to look out after the basket ball fortunes of the' institution, and one named to direct the destinies of the school in track It is also an- nounced that Charlie will have an assistant for the coming season, and that his identity will be made known at an early date.
 When the youthful athletes get busy with moleskin and cleat on Munger field this fall. 1t will mark Charlie Browns fifth year at the helm of Owenton athletics. Charlie, a former star of the Vanderbilt squad, came down from Nashville in the early fall of 1915. He has been here ever since, except for the period when he shipped out of America for the war-torn fronts ofs France. Coach Charlie won distinction in the army, and then after it was all over, he came back to Birmingham Southern to coach baseball and football teams.
 He has enjoyed wonderful success. especially with his football aggre- gatlons. When Coach Brown took the reins in football Birmingham-S South ern was way down the list in the ranking of secondary colleges of the south. He started an upbuilding move ment, and with a harmoniuos support from faculty. students and alumni associa tions, he started bringing the Partners to the front ranks.
 The coming football season will mark, Birmingham- Southern's first year as member of the s. I. A A. She was awarded membership In this body last spring when Coach BrOWn dltenueu the annual sessioH dt Jacksonville, Fla.
 Coach Brown ~failed to make any definite predictions when commenting on the football situation Saturday. He did admit, however, that practical ly all of last years men would re- turn to the fold. and that some good new material was in sight.
 T can't say anything definite" said Coach except that prospects look bright for us to turn out a win ner. We have four good games book ed for Ringer field this fall and of course will stage our annual tilt with the Howard Bulldogs at Rick wood field. Filks have come to look upon the Bulldog Panther game as one of the real big attractions of the gridiron season. and our attendances have grown by leaps and bounds from year to year.
 We also have another big contest scheduled for the fall, when we will meet Mississippi college in Munger bowl"