Johnny Marshall
{{Short description|American football player and entrepreneur (1904–1977)}}
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{{Infobox college football player
|name=Johnny Marshall
|birth_date={{Birth date|1904|6|18}}
|birth_place=Jacksonville, Florida
|death_date={{Death date and age|mf=y|1977|11|7|1904|6|14}}
|death_place=Boston, Massachusetts
|school=Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
|class=Graduate
|pastschools=Georgia Tech (1925–1926)
|currentposition=End
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|image=Johnny Marshall.jpg|caption=Marshall in 1925}}
John Houston Marshall (June 18, 1904 – November 7, 1977)State of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Death Index, 1970-2003. Boston, MA, USA 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.{{cite news|title=Alabama Places 4 Men On Newspaper All-Southern Team|newspaper=The Kingsport Times|date=November 28, 1926}} The yearbook in 1925 remarked '"Johnnie" could have made "All-American" had he caught that pass in the Alabama game."{{cite web|title=A Review of the 1925 Georgia Tech Football Season|author=Morgan Blake|url=https://smartech.gatech.edu/bitstream/handle/1853/14723/1926%20Athletics.pdf.txt?sequence=15}}
Personal life
Marshall was from Jacksonville, where he returned after graduation from Georgia Tech, founding the John Marshall Agency Inc.{{Cite web|url=https://www.agencydb.org/john-marshall-agency-inc|title=Agency Companies}}
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;{{Cite web|url=http://fsu.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fsu%3A154508/datastream/OCR/view|title = Diginole: FSU's Digital Repository | DigiNole}} and Brigadier General Robert H. Beckham, a former Adjutant General of Texas who served in the Spanish American War.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/beckham-robert-h|title=TSHA | Beckham, Robert H}}
His only child, Carlotta Marshall, worked as a photographer in New York where she formed a close friendship with Diane Arbus.{{efn|As revealed through published letters between them.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/14/magazine/arbus-reconsidered.html|title=Arbus Reconsidered|last=Lubow|first=Arthur|date=2003-09-14|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-03-16|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}}}
See also
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Category:Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football players
Category:American football ends
Category:Players of American football from Jacksonville, Florida
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