Raymond "Tay" Brown was an All-American first team tackle in 1932 and starred on USC's 1931 and 1932 national championship squads which won a pair of Rose Bowls. He set a Los Angeles Coliseum record of blocking four kicks in one game.

He captained the 1932 team which produced Hall of Fame coach Howard Jones' only perfect season at Southern California. USC finished 10-0 that year, including a 35-0 drubbing of coach Jock Sutherland's Pittsburgh Panthers in the Rose Bowl.

He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1980.

Brown went on to a successful coaching career, first as the head basketball coach and assistant football coach at Cincinnati and then at Compton (Calif.) College for 17 years, where he posted a 140-33-9 record while winning 5 national championships and appearing in 4 Junior Rose Bowls (winning 3). He also was the athletic director at Compton College.

He died in 1994 at age 82.