Edward Vincent "Vin" Brown (5 February 1922 – 11 May 1989) was an Australian rules football

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er who played for Carlton

Carlton Football Club

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 in the Victorian Football League

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 (VFL) during the 1940s.

Brown possessed exceptional pace, he was a Stawell Gift

Stawell Gift

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 finalist, and was used on the wing when he started out at Carlton in 1941. In his second season he began playing as a key defender to fill the gap left by players who were serving in the war and was a full-back in Carlton's 1945 premiership side. He was half back flanker in their premiership two years later, playing most of the Grand Final on Dick Reynolds

Dick Reynolds

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. A twisted ankle sustained in the 1948 season prompted Brown to announce his retirement.

His father Ted Brown

Ted Brown (Australian footballer)

Edward "Ted" Brown was an Australian rules footballer who played for St Kilda and Carlton in the Victorian Football League ....

 was also a dual premiership player at Carlton, only Sergio

Sergio Silvagni

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 and Stephen Silvagni

Stephen Silvagni

Stephen Silvagni is a former Australian rules footballer for the Carlton Football Club.During his long VFL/AFL career, from his debut in 1985, until his retirement in 2001, he gained the reputation as one of the greatest ever full-backs to play the game and was named as full-back in the AFL Team...

 have repeated this feat for the club. He also had a younger brother John who played for Carlton.