Bobby Marshall

Football career High school

Marshall played football for Minneapolis Central high school. He played end alongside Sigmund Harris, who played quarterback. Together they led the Minneapolis Central Pioneers football team to state football championship titles in 1899 and 1900. The 1900 season included a disputed 6–0 victory over the University of Minnesota Gophers. Marshall led the Pioneers to another championship in 1901.

College

In 1903, Marshall enrolled at the University of Minnesota where he played end for the Gophers. He got his first start in 1903

Marshall is in the College Football Hall of Fame and the Minnesota Sports Hall of Fame.

Baseball career High school 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.

College 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 bought the Colored Gophers team in 1911 and used the name Twin Cities Gophers.

From 1912 to 1914, Marshall played for a number of teams, including the Hennepins, St. Joe-Deckerts, and St. Joseph Saints in 1912, the Hennepins again and the West Side Athletics and St. Cloud Pretzels in 1913, and the Pretzels again and the aforementioned Colored Gophers in 1914.

In 1918, Marshall married Irene Knott of Great Falls, Montana. The couple had four children. Marshall also had a business affiliation with a Minneapolis restaurant, The Oriole.

Later life and death

For years, Marshall coached youngsters in football and boxing in Minneapolis. At his retirement from his government job in 1950, he was honored with a testimonial dinner, whose attendees included Minnesota Governor Luther Youngdahl and legendary Gophers football coach Bernie Bierman.

Marshall died of Alzheimer's disease in 1958. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971.