Alton Marsters

{{Short description|American football player}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox college football player

|currentposition=Halfback

|school=Dartmouth Big Green

|class=1930

|highschool=Arlington

|pastschools=Dartmouth (1927–1929)

|highlights=

• First-team All-American (1929)
• Second-team All-American (1927)
• 2× First-team All-Eastern (1927, 1929)

}}

Alton Marsters was an All-America college football running back at Dartmouth.{{Cite web |title=Praise for Marsters |url=https://archive.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/article/1929/12/1/praise-for-marsters |access-date=2023-11-14 |website=Dartmouth Alumni Magazine |language=en-US}} He was known as "special delivery."{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I3aAUdXY_24C&pg=PA39 | title=Dartmouth College Football: Green Fields of Autumn| isbn=9780738536118| last1=Shribman| first1=David| last2=Degange| first2=Jack| year=2004}} Herman Olcott wrote him a letter on his deathbed.{{cite news|url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1929/11/05/page/24/article/ex-yale-star-from-deathbed-sends-marsters-a-letter|date=November 5, 1929|title=Ex-Yale Star, from Deathbed, Sends Marsters a Letter|work=Chicago Tribune|page=24}}