COMMENTARY: Football was a small part of Coach Brown’s contributions

Published Monday, March 1st, 2021

We shared a special relationship over the past 45 years   By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com Tom Brown has been gone, almost to the hour, for three days as I sit down to write on a quiet Sunday night about a man whose impact and life story can’t really be put into words. Last Thursday — the day the Lord called …

Memorial service set Monday to celebrate lives of Tom and Barbara Brown

Published Saturday, February 27th, 2021

By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com MAIDEN — A memorial service to celebrate the lives of legendary football coach Tom Brown and his wife, Barbara, is set for Monday night at Living Word Church in Maiden. The church is located at 923 Island Ford Road with visitation with the family scheduled from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., and the celebration of life …

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Legendary coach Tom Brown dies

Published Thursday, February 25th, 2021

By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com MAIDEN — Legendary football coach Tom Brown, who came to the Greater Hickory area to play college football at then-Lenoir-Rhyne College and was later a high school head football coach at Maiden, Bunker Hill and East Burke, has died. Brown — who battled COVID-19 and other health concerns for several months — died at about 2:30 …

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Maiden to dedicate stadium to Tom Brown on Oct. 20

Published Wednesday, September 13th, 2017

HobbsDailyReport.com MAIDEN – Maiden High is inviting its former football players to a reception that will honor former head coach Tom Brown on the night the football stadium is named after him. Former players and coaches who worked with Brown from 1965 through 2007 are encouraged to attend on Oct. 20 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., school administrators and …

BLAST FROM THE PAST: Brown found his calling in life very early

Published Friday, September 8th, 2017

By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com MAIDEN – Tom Brown has never been one to run a what-might-have-been checklist because he knows he found his life’s calling – coaching football – at a very young age. “It was an easy call for me to be a football coach,” Brown said this week. “And once I got involved, I never wanted to be …