Marshall Guill


Marshall Franklin "Shorty" Guill 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 [Yellow Jackets football|Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football] team. He was a second baseman on the baseball team.

1916

He played during Tech's Cumberland vs. [Georgia Tech football">Cumberland Bulldogs football">Cumberland vs. [Georgia Tech football game|222-0] rout of Cumberland in Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team|1916].

1917

Guill was a starter for the school's first football [national championships">American football">football [national championships in NCAA Division I FBS|national championship] team in Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team|1917], which outscored opponents 491 to 17.

1919

Guill played as quarterback for much of 1919 [Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team|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.