Marshall Guill

Marshall Guill
	Guill in 1918
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
Position	End
Class	Graduate
Major	Engineering
Personal information
Born:	September 20, 1897; Sparta, Georgia, U.S.
Died:	May 11, 1931 (aged 33); Guilford, Connecticut, U.S.
Height	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Weight	161 lb (73 kg)
Career history
College	Georgia Tech (1914–1919);
Career highlights and awards
	National championship (1916, 1917); SIAA championship (1916, 1917); All-Southern (1917, 1919);

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.

Guill as a member of the 1917 football team

He played during Tech's 222–0 rout of Cumberland in 1916.

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

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

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]

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