Lawrence Markley

{{Infobox college football player

|name=Lawrence Markley

|school=Sewanee Tigers

|birth_date=c. 1885

|birth_place=Chicago, Illinois

|currentposition=Fullback

|class=Graduate

|weight_lb=165

|height_ft=5

|height_in=10

|pastschools=Sewanee (1907–1908)

|highlights=

All-Southern (1907, 1908)

}}

Lawrence Markley was a college football player

College football

Markley played for the Sewanee Tigers of the Sewanee:The University of the South. He was captain of the 1908 team,{{cite web|url=http://static.sewanee.edu/athletics/PDFS/SEWANEE_Football2007.pdf|title=Year-by-Year Results|page=31|access-date=2014-12-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141223100006/http://static.sewanee.edu/athletics/PDFS/SEWANEE_Football2007.pdf|archive-date=2014-12-23|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D0DE3DE113EE033A25750C2A9649D946697D6CF|work=New York Times|title=FOOTBALL CAPTAINS FOR NEXT SEASON; Sixty-four College Elevens Elect Leaders for Gridiron Battles for 1908. THREE FULL BACKS SELECTED Illness of Tad Jones Postpones Action at Yale|date=December 23, 1907}} and selected an All-Southern fullback both those years.e. g. {{cite book|title=Spalding's Football Guide|date=1909|page=75|publisher=Shawnee Mission, Kansas, NCAA Publishing Service |url=https://archive.org/stream/officialfootball1909nati#page/75}}{{cite journal|page=31|url=http://issuu.com/sewaneeathletics/docs/sewaneefootball2011|title=National and Southern Honors|journal=Sewanee Football Media Guide|year=2011}} Vanderbilt coach Dan McGugin wrote of Markley, "He has always been a very stubborn man on the defense, effective on a short plunge, and his cool head has helped to steady his team through many a crisis." At Sewanee he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.{{cite journal|url=http://www.mocavo.co.uk/General-Catalogue-of-Sigma-Alpha-Epsilon/132531/590|journal=General Catalogue of Sigma Alpha Epsilon|title=1908|page=578}}

References

Category:American football fullbacks

Category:Sewanee Tigers football players

Category:All-Southern college football players