Alexander Brown Mackie
Alexander Brown Mackie (May 1, 1894 – June 5, 1966) was an American football and basketball coach, college administrator, professor, and founder and president of Brown Mackie College in Salina, Kansas.
He was born in Gazaam, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Dickinson Seminary in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio. He played football for Dickinson Seminary in 1913 and served as a Navy ensign in World War I.
After coaching athletics at Athens High School in The Plains, Ohio for two years, he became head of the athletic department at Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina in 1921. He led the football team from 1921 to 1937, posting a 79–52–13 record, and the basketball team from 1921 to 1938, with a 113–161 record.
His football teams won the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference championship six times: 1927, 1929, 1931, and 1934–1936; the 1931 squad was undefeated.
In 1938 he co-founded Brown Mackie College in Salina with Perry E. Brown, starting as a business college. He served as president until 1963, helping build the school into its own institution.
Mackie died in Salina, Kansas, in 1966 at age 72.
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