Johnny Marshall

American college football player
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroAmerican college football player
A.K.A.John Houston Marshall
A.K.A.John Houston Marshall
PlacesUnited States of America
wasAmerican football player Football player
Work fieldSports
Gender
Male
Birth14 June 1904, Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida, USA
Death7 November 1977Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA (aged 73 years)
Star signGemini
Education
Georgia TechAtlanta, Fulton County, USA
Sports Teams
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football (USA)
The details

Biography

John Houston Marshall (June 18, 1904 – November 7, 1977) was a college football player and entrepreneur, with various business interests, including trucking and insurance.

Georgia Tech

Johnny Marshall was a prominent end for William Alexander's Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football teams. He was selected All-Southern in 1926. The yearbook in 1925 remarked '"Johnnie" could have made "All-American" had he caught that pass in the Alabama game."

Personal life

Marshall was from Jacksonville, where he returned after graduation from Georgia Tech, founding the John Marshall Agency Inc.

He married Catherine M. Beckham. She was the daughter of Charlotte W. Mahone, the first woman to serve as dean of students at Florida State College for Women; and Brigadier General Robert H. Beckham, a former Adjutant General of Texas who served in the Spanish American War.

His only child, Carlotta Marshall, worked as a photographer in New York where she formed a close friendship with Diane Arbus.

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