Bobby Marshall
American football player
Died when: 78 years 168 days (941 months)Star Sign: Pisces
Robert Wells Marshall (March 12, 1880 – August 27, 1958) was an American sportsman.He was best known for playing football; however, Marshall also competed in baseball, track, boxing, ice hockey and wrestling.
When Marshall played baseball for Minneapolis Central High School, he played first base for three years.Central was the champion of the Twin Cities High Schools for Marshall's junior and senior years, of 1900 and 1901.
When he played baseball for the University of Minnesota, he also played first base for two years, 1904 and 1905, helping the university to win the Western Conference Championship in 1905.
Marshall played end for the football team of the University of Minnesota from 1904 to 1906.In 1906, Marshall kicked a 48-yard field goal to beat the University of Chicago 4-2 (field goals counted as four points).
He was the first African American to play football in the Western Conference (later the Big Ten).He graduated in 1907 and played with Minneapolis pro teams, the Deans and the Marines.
From 1920 through 1924, he played in the National Football League with the Rock Island Independents, the Minneapolis Marines, and the Duluth Kelleys.
Along with Fritz Pollard, he was one of the two first African Americans to play in the NFL.
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