Marshall Guill
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Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets | |
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Position | End |
Class | Graduate |
Major | Engineering |
Personal information | |
Born: | Sparta, Georgia, U.S. | September 20, 1897
Died: | May 11, 1931 Guilford, Connecticut, U.S. | (aged 33)
Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) |
Weight | 161 lb (73 kg) |
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Career highlights and awards | |
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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
[edit]Guill was born in Sparta, Georgia on September 20, 1897 to Marshall Abner Guill and Zella Ada Moore.
Georgia Tech
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Guill was a prominent quarterback and end on John Heisman's Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team.
1916
[edit]He played during Tech's 222–0 rout of Cumberland in 1916.
1917
[edit]Guill was a starter for the school's first national championship team in 1917, which outscored opponents 491 to 17.
1919
[edit]Guill played as quarterback for much of 1919, shifted to end in the latter part of the year for newcomer Jack McDonough.
Death
[edit]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]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Marshall Guill". Georgia Tech Alumnus Magazine. 9 (10): 254. June 1931.
External links
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- American football ends
- Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets baseball players
- Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football players
- 1897 births
- 1931 deaths
- Players of American football from Georgia (U.S. state)
- People from Sparta, Georgia
- All-Southern college football players
- American football quarterbacks
- Road incident deaths in Connecticut