Andrew M. Brown (1870 – August 10, 1948) was aScottish-Americansoccer player,executive andcoach who had a short tenure as coach of theUnited States men's national soccer team.

Born inPaisley, Scotland, Brown moved to the U.S. at the age of twenty, settling inPhiladelphia to play soccer. During the 1909–10 season he served as the vice-president of the Eastern Soccer League.^[1]

He was president of theAmerican Football Association, and was instrumental in that organization's 1913 merger with the American Amateur Association, which formed theUnited States Football Association. He later became the president of the USFA, a position he held during the 1928 Soccer Wars.

Brown was posthumously inducted into theNational Soccer Hall of Fame in 1950, having died inRavenna, Ohio on August 10, 1948.

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