![]() Marshall in 1925 | |
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets | |
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Position | End |
Class | Graduate |
Personal information | |
Born: | Jacksonville, Florida | June 18, 1904
Died: | November 7, 1977 Boston, Massachusetts | (aged 73)
Career history | |
College | Georgia Tech (1925–1926) |
Career highlights and awards | |
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John Houston Marshall (June 18, 1904 – November 7, 1977) [1] was a college football player and entrepreneur, with various business interests, including trucking and insurance.
Johnny Marshall was a prominent end for William Alexander's Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football teams. He was selected All-Southern in 1926. [2] The yearbook in 1925 remarked '"Johnnie" could have made " All-American" had he caught that pass in the Alabama game." [3]
Marshall was from Jacksonville, where he returned after graduation from Georgia Tech, founding the John Marshall Agency Inc. [4]
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; [5] and Brigadier General Robert H. Beckham, a former Adjutant General of Texas who served in the Spanish American War. [6]
His only child, Carlotta Marshall, worked as a photographer in New York where she formed a close friendship with Diane Arbus. [a]