Kutztown University Athletics

Denauld Brown was a member of the football team from 1994 to 1997. Brown was an American Football Coaches Association All-American defensive tackle at Kutztown. He was awarded the Dennis Roth Academic Scholarship and the Presidential Award for Academic Progress, and graduated in 1998 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology. He earned his master’s in public administration from Kutztown in 2001. Brown signed as a free agent with the Washington Redskins. He also was selected 18th in the NFL Europe draft by the Frankfurt Galaxy, and played defensive tackle for Frankfurt’s 1999 World Bowl champion team. He returned to the United States in 1999 as a free agent defensive tackle with the Seattle Seahawks. He served as defensive line coach at Blinn College, of Brenham, Texas, which won the 2006 junior college national championship when it defeated Pearl River Community College, 19-6, in the JuCo national championship game. It capped a 12-0 season for Blinn, the nation’s top-ranked junior college. Brown coached at Blinn under the Buccaneers’ head coach and defensive coordinator, Brad Franchione, the son of Texas A&M head coach Dennis Franchione. Brown joined the Blinn staff shortly after completing his fourth season as a defensive line coach in NFL Europe. He coached the Barcelona Dragons in Spain in 2003, the Scottish Claymores in Scotland in 2004 and the Hamburg Sea Devils in Germany in both 2005 and 2006. He had begun coaching at his alma mater, Kutztown (Pa.) University, where he was a graduate assistant coach from 1999 to 2001. He was a graduate assistant at the University of Connecticut from 2001 to 2003. Brown was an all-state, All-Southeast Pennsylvania defensive lineman at Henderson High School in West Chester, Pa. He and his wife, Anne, live near the Columbia campus, with their daughter Neah, who was born in December 2006.