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Tarzan Brown Road Race 2026 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7TH 2026 DOWNTOWN MYSTIC CT MORE DETAILS TO COME Ellison Myers Brown (September 22, 1913 – August 23, 1975), widely known as Tarzan Brown, a direct descendant of the last acknowledged royal family of the Naragansett Tribe of Rhode Island (also known as Deerfoot amongst his people), was a two-time winner of the Boston Marathon in 1936 (2:33:40) and 1939 (2:28:51) and 1936 U.S. Olympian. He ran the marathon in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin and also qualified for the 1940 Summer Olympics which were ultimately canceled due to the outbreak of WWII.