Alton Marsters

American football player
Alton Marsters
Dartmouth Big Green
PositionHalfback
Class1930
Career history
CollegeDartmouth (1927–1929)
High schoolArlington
Career highlights and awards
  • First-team All-American (1929)
  • Second-team All-American (1927)
  • 2× First-team All-Eastern (1927, 1929)

Alton Marsters was an All-America college football running back at Dartmouth.[1] He was known as "special delivery."[2] Herman Olcott wrote him a letter on his deathbed.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Praise for Marsters". Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. Retrieved 2023-11-14.
  2. ^ Shribman, David; Degange, Jack (2004). Dartmouth College Football: Green Fields of Autumn. ISBN 9780738536118.
  3. ^ "Ex-Yale Star, from Deathbed, Sends Marsters a Letter". Chicago Tribune. November 5, 1929. p. 24.


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