by our College Data Analytics TeamThis page takes a deep look at Football at Brown University, a fall sport — team by team, topic by topic, with gender and cross-sport comparisons throughout. Brown is classified as NCAA Division I-FCS as a member of The Ivy League.
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The Brown men’s football team lists 112 players, with an NCAA multi-year squad size of 406. The most recent cohort included 413 athletes in this program for its academic reporting.
Among the 26 varsity sports Brown sponsors, football sits at #1 by total roster size.
The men’s football program is staffed by 10 coaches — 1 head coach and 9 assistants. In all, 10 are full-time and 0 part-time. Leading the program is James Perry.
Across the school’s 26 sports, football ranks #3 by total coaching staff.
These numbers are reported to the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey.
The Brown men’s football program generated $3,568,284 in revenue against $3,568,284 in expenses, breaking even on the year. This comes to about $5,762 in operating expense per athlete, or $645,359 per team.
Among the school’s 26 sports, football sits #1 by revenue, or about 8% of the school’s total athletics revenue.
The men’s football team earned an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 980 (994 on a multi-year basis) and a Graduation Success Rate of 95%. It retained 99% of its athletes, with 99% remaining academically eligible.
Compared with the school’s average team APR of 992, football lands below the pack at 980.
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Blank metrics mean the data was not reported for this team.