Elwood Brown

Elwood Stanley Brown (April 9, 1883 – March 24, 1924) was an American sports organizer in Illinois, Manila, Europe, and South America. In his short life, he made a number of major accomplishments: the intensive promotion of sports among Filipinos, originating international sports competitions in Asia, the promotion of the Olympics around the world, the founding (1910) of the first Boy Scout troops in the Philippines, and initiating and organizing the American Expeditionary Forces games and its corollary the Inter-Allied Games at the end of the War in Europe.
Brown worked closely with Charles Pierre de Fredy, Baron de Coubertin and the International Olympic Committee in propagating the Olympic ideal through the YMCA.
"After his death, the close relationship between the IOC and the YMCA faded... there was no man of the calibre of Elwood S. Brown to carry on the work he had started." (–Buchanan, 1998)
Later life.
Brown died of complications from a heart attack on March 24, 1924, three weeks short of his 41st birthday.