Johnny Menville

{{Short description|American football player and physician}}

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

{{Infobox college football player

|school=Tulane Green Wave

|currentnumber=99

|currentposition=Quarterback / Halfback

|highschool=Jesuit

|pastschools=

• Tulane (1926–1928)

|highlights=

• All-Southern (1927)
• Porter Cup (1928)

}}

John G. "Johnny" Menville was an American college football player and physician. He was a quarterback for the Tulane Green Wave football team from 1926 to 1928.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2206&dat=19261024&id=T_QuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ktcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2105,6395690&hl=en|date=October 24, 1926|title=Tulane Sees Star Gridder In Menville|work=Miami News}}{{cite web |title=Tulane University Football Program; Tulane vs. Auburn :: Tulane University Football Programs |url=http://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16313coll13/id/170 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304084127/http://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16313coll13/id/170 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |accessdate=2015-09-25 |publisher=louisianadigitallibrary.org}}{{cite web|url=http://sportsnola.com/best-of-new-orleans-area-high-school-football-by-position-part-5-running-backs-quarterbacks/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926011359/http://sportsnola.com/best-of-new-orleans-area-high-school-football-by-position-part-5-running-backs-quarterbacks/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=September 26, 2015|title=Best of New Orleans area high school football by position, Part 5 (Running Backs & Quarterbacks) - SportsNOLA|publisher=sportsnola.com|accessdate=2015-09-25}} Menville was selected All-Southern by some writers in 1927.{{cite news|url=http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/athnewspapers/id:adb1927-2315|title=Four Georgia Grid Stars Voted Places On United Press Conference Team|date=November 23, 1917|work=Banner-Herald}} He won the Porter Cup as his university's best athlete in 1928.