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Mar 9, 2010 9:19:40 AM

David Brown, a defensive backs coach at Ohio for the past four seasons, has been selected as the new head football coach at Missouri S&T.

He becomes the third African-American head football coach in Division II at a non-historically black college or university.

Brown, who will officially assume the head coaching duties on March 15, takes over for Kirby Cannon, who stepped down last month to join the staff at Central Michigan. He is the 14th head coach in the history of the Miner program and only the sixth since 1937.

Over the last four seasons at Ohio, Brown has served as the defensive backs coach and has also worked with the special teams. He was in charge of the punt return unit and also assisted with the punt and kickoff teams during his tenure with the Bobcat program.

Before joining the staff at Ohio, Brown spent five seasons at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, California, serving as the team's defensive coordinator in the 2004 and 2005 seasons. Cal Poly won the Great West title in each of those two seasons and earned its first berth – and victory – in NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision in 2005.

Brown, a native of Los Angeles, earned an associate's degree from Santa Monica College in 1992 and went on to receive a bachelor's degree in physical education from Cal Poly in 1996. He was a two-year member of the Mustangs' football team, leading the squad with 69 tackles and recording three interceptions in 1994. As a senior, when he served as a team captain, he registered 54 tackles and three interceptions.

Brown also received a master's of education degree in cross-cultural teaching from the National University in San Diego in 2000.