
EXECUTIVE CAREER
DIRECTOR AND TREASURER, OTTAWA ROUGH RIDERS BEGINNING IN 1936
SECRETARY, OTTAWA ROUGH RIDERS BEGINNING IN 1939
SECRETARY, INTERPROVINCIAL RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION 1941 – 1942, 1947 – 1961
D. WES BROWN JOINED THE OTTAWA ORGANIZATION IN 1925 AS THE TICKET MANAGER. THIS BEGAN AN ALMOST 40-YEAR DEDICATION TO FOOTBALL.
WHILE SERVING IN VARIOUS CAPACITIES IN OTTAWA, BROWN WAS ALSO AFFILIATED WITH THE INTERPROVINCIAL UNION. IN 1948 HE WAS APPOINTED THE PERMANENT SECRETARY OF WHAT WOULD LATER BECOME THE EASTERN DIVISION OF THE CANADIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE.
D. WES BROWN WAS ONE OF THE FEW INDIVIDUALS TO BE HONOURED WITH A PLAQUE AT A GREY CUP DINNER. THROUGHOUT HIS LONG CAREER HE WORKED DILIGENTLY THE OTTAWA FOOTBALL CLUB.
D. WES BROWN IS A MEMBER OF THE OTTAWA SPORTS HALL OF FAME.
INDUCTED 1963 – BUILDER
CHARTER MEMBER
Class of 1963 Earl Grey, John DeGruchy, "Seppi" DuMoulin, William C. Foulds, Frank J. Hannibal, Alvin Ritchie, Harry L. Batstone, Ormond Beach, Joseph M. Breen, Lionel P. Conacher, Ernest Cox, Jake Jacobs, Eddie "Dynamite" James, Fritz Hanson, Smirle Lawson, Frank R. "Pep" Leadlay, Norman Perry, Teddy Reeve, Jeff Russel, David S. Sprague, Brian M. Timmis, Dr. Harry Crawford Griffith, N.J. "Piffles" Taylor, Frank "Shag" Shaughnessy, Benjamin L. Simpson, Hugh Gall, Percy Molson, Eddie Emerson, Joe Krol, Russ Rebholz