Eddie Brown

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Eddie Brown (Canadian football)

"Downtown" Eddie Brown (born August 6, 1966) is a former slotback in the Canadian Football League between 1990 & 2002. Brown played with eight CFL teams, and appeared in two Grey Cup championships with the Edmonton Eskimos, winningthe 81st Grey Cup in 1993.

In 1995 he played for the Memphis Mad Dogs. In 1996, after the demise of the Memphis Mad Dogs, he re-signed with the Edmonton Eskimos. In 1999 he played for the BC Lions.

In total he caught 532 passes for 8663 yards in 160 career CFL games with 63 touchdowns. Eddie had 3 1,000 yard seasons, all with Edmonton, and was a CFL All-Star in 1996 as well as Western All-Star in 1996 and 1999.

His shoestring catch in the snow of the 84th Grey Cup is considered to be one of the most memorable plays in Grey Cup history.

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Eddie Brown (cricketer)

Edward "Eddie" Brown (27 November 1911 – 16 April 1978) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket in 28 matches for Warwickshire between 1932 and 1934. He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne and died at Castle Bromwich, Birmingham.

Brown was a tail-end right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler with what Wisden Cricketers' Almanack termed "a dangerous swerve". Brought up in Darlington, he played club cricket in North East England before joining Warwickshire in the early 1930s. He made his first-class debut in mid-season in 1932 and without any spectacular success did enough to earn a further contract. In 1933, he was successful immediately he was brought into the team, taking five Worcestershire first-innings wickets for 75 runs in his first match. Better was to come just a month later: in the game against Surrey, Warwickshire led by 151 on the first innings and enforced the follow on; Brown then took eight wickets for just 35 runs to lead his team to an innings victory.Wisden described the bowling: "Maintaining an accurate length, swinging the ball, and getting plenty of pace off the pitch, he finished off the innings for 128 just before three o'clock. His performance of taking eight wickets for a trifle over four runs apiece, which helped so largely in the victory, gained him his county cap." He had another five-wicket innings in his next match, but at the end of July 1933 he was unable to bowl in the game against Sussex because of injury and he did not recover in time to play again that season.