Marshall Guill

Marshall Guill
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
Position End
Class Graduate
Major Engineering
Career history
College
Personal information
Date of birth (1897-09-20)September 20, 1897
Place of birth Sparta, Georgia
Date of death May 11, 1931(1931-05-11) (aged 33)
Place of death Guilford, Connecticut
Height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Weight 161 lb (73 kg)
Career highlights and awards

Marshall Franklin "Shorty" Guill (September 20, 1897 May 11, 1931) was an American football and baseball player for the Georgia Tech Golden Tornado of the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was a member of the ANAK Society. He graduated with an M. E. in 1918.

Early years

Guill was born in Sparta, Georgia on September 20, 1897 to Marshall Abner Guill and Zella Ada Moore.

Georgia Tech

Guill was a prominent quarterback and end on John Heisman's Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team.

1916

He played during Tech's 2220 rout of Cumberland in 1916.

1917

Guill was a starter for the school's first national championship team in 1917, which outscored opponents 491 to 17.

1919

Guill played as quarterback for much of 1919, shifted to end in the latter part of the year for newcomer Jack McDonough.

Death

He was killed in an automobile collision on the New London-New Haven highway near Guilford, Connecticut on May 11, 1931. At the time of his death he was connected with the American Moistener Corporation of Charlotte, North Carolina.[1]

References

  1. "Marshall Guill". Georgia Tech Alumnus Magazine. 9 (10): 254. June 1931.

Marshall Guill at Find a Grave

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