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	George Preston Marshall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Preston Marshall (1896 – 1969) was the long-time owner and president of the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL).
		Marshall was born in Grafton, West Virginia on October 11, 1896.
		In the 1950s, Marshall was the first NFL owner to embrace the new medium of television.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Preston_Marshall (992 words)

	George Preston Marshall -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		George Preston Marshall (1896 – 1969) was the long-time owner and president of the (Click link for more info and facts about Washington Redskins) Washington Redskins of the (Click link for more info and facts about National Football League) National Football League (NFL).
		In the (The decade from 1950 to 1959) 1950s, Marshall was the first NFL owner to embrace the new medium of (A telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points) television.
		Marshall's chief response was to make Ernie Davis, (The Athenian siege of Syracuse (415-413 BC) was eventually won by Syracuse) Syracuse's all-American running back, his number one (A document ordering the payment of money; drawn by one person or bank on another) draft choice for 1962.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/G/Ge/George_Preston_Marshall.htm (946 words)

	Professional Football Researchers Association- Pro Football History
		George Preston Marshall was operating a laundry in Washington, D.C. when he broke onto the National Football League scene in 1932 as a part-owner of the new Boston Braves franchise.
		Marshall was also the moving force behind the NFL's decision in 1933 to split the league into two equal divisions with one season-ending showdown between the two champions to determine an overall title winner.
		Marshall's insistence on keeping in the middle of things, regardless of whatever controversy that might have been caused, may indirectly have led to the 73-0 slaughter his Washington team suffered in the 1940 championship game with the Chicago Bears.
	www.footballresearch.com /articles/frpage.cfm?topic=marshall (1240 words)

	Washington Redskins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The city of Boston was awarded an NFL franchise in 1932, under the ownership of Marshall.
		On the heels of Marshall's entry to the National Football League, and evidently influenced by his racial policies, the other NFL teams dropped all fl players in 1933 and none signed fls again until 1946.
		Marshall continued to refuse to integrate the team, despite pressure from the Washington Post and the Federal government.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/w/wa/washington_redskins.html (943 words)

	WashRedskinsHistory
		From George Preston Marshall to Jack Kent Cooke, the present owner, from Vince Lombardi to Joe Gibbs, from Sammy Baugh to John Riggins, plus the NFL's first fight song, marching band and radio network, the Redskins can be proud of an impressive professional football legacy.
		George Preston Marshall was awarded the inactive Boston franchise in July 1932.
		George Allen took over in 1971 and coached Washington to 69 victories, five playoff appearances and the 1972 NFC championship in his seven years.
	www.haruth.com /WashRedskinsHistory.html (708 words)

	Member - Pro Football Hall of Fame
		George Preston Marshall was operating a laundry business in Washington, D.C., when, in 1932, he made the fateful decision to become part owner of the new Boston Braves franchise in the National Football League.
		Marshall was totally involved in all aspects of his team’s operation and endured his share of criticism for not integrating his team until being forced to do so in 1962.
		Marshall was an outspoken foe of the status quo when most were content with it,” he said.
	www.profootballhof.com /hof/member.jsp?PLAYER_ID=142 (372 words)

	Richard Tonsing's and Margaret Bernard's Family Trees - Person Page 42
		George Preston Farmer witnessed the property transfer of Melinda Jane Thomas to Robert Henry Farmer at D V and J B Farmer survey on 9 April 1909 in Tarrant County, Texas; 51 3/4 acres.
		George Preston Farmer was a clerk in 1922.
		George Preston Farmer was born in November 1880 in Tarrant County, Texas.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~okrick/p42.htm (6691 words)

	ESPN.com - Page2 - Civil Rights on the Gridiron
		Along with George Halas of the Chicago Bears and Art Rooney of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Marshall was one of the founding fathers of the National Football League.
		Marshall was new to the league in 1932, but he had enough influence to initiate several rule changes by mid-decade.
		Following that meeting, Marshall announced that his team had "no policy against the hiring of football players because of their race." In fact, he had prepared a list of five fl players whom he planned to select, if they were available, at the annual NFL draft in December.
	www.espn.go.com /page2/wash/s/2002/0305/1346021.html (5185 words)

	Washington Redskins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The city of Boston was awarded an NFL franchise in 1932, under the ownership of George Preston Marshall.
		The Redskins in Washington, D.C. The move to Fenway Park was unsuccessful and attendance was poor, so Marshall decided to move the team to Washington, D.C. in 1937.
		Marshall continued to refuse to integrate the team, despite pressure from the Washington Post and the Federal Government (a typical comment by Post writer Shirley Povich was "Cleveland Browns runner Jim Brown integrated the Redskins' end zone").
	www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Washington_Redskins (1553 words)

	Edge of Sports
		Marshall, in the words of the late sports writing legend Shirley Povich, "was widely considered one of pro football's greatest innovators and its leading bigot."Marshall's Skins were the last team to integrate in the entire NFL.
		Marshall finally integrated the team in 1962 only when the Kennedy Administration's Interior Secretary, Stewart Udall, issued an ultimatum: sign an African-American player or be denied use of the new government financed 54,000-seat D.C. Stadium.
		In the face of this history, it is hard to imagine Marshall as a student of the cultural intricacies of the red-clay warriors.
	www.edgeofsports.com /2003-08-28-18 (938 words)

	George Preston Marshall - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		George Preston Marshall was the long time owner and president of the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL).
		Marshall was born in Grafton, West Virginia on October 11, 1897.
		Marshall's partners left the team after one season, leaving Marshall in control.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/George_Preston_Marshall (445 words)

	Marshall memorial to remain at RFK - The Washington Times: Sports - July 17, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The removal of a monument to late Washington Redskins owner George Preston Marshall at RFK Stadium has been scuttled because of lack of funding.
		Marshall's likeness is on a large plaque atop the front with a Redskins logo on the rear.
		Marshall founded the Redskins franchise in Boston in 1932 and moved it to Washington five years later.
	www.washtimes.com /sports/20040717-121956-1595r.htm (485 words)

	Washington Redskins History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		From George Preston Marshall to Jack Kent Cooke, from Vince Lombardi to Joe Gibbs, from Sammy Baugh to John Riggins, the Redskins can be proud of their football legacy.
		George Preston Marshall acquired an NFL franchise in 1932 and named it the Boston Braves after the city’s Major League Baseball team.
		Marshall had first spotted Battles in 1931 when Cliff was a halfback for an outmanned Wesleyan eleven playing Georgetown.
	www.gprep.org /~sjochs/redskinshistory.htm (3293 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: The Redskins Book: Page 16 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		George Preston Marshall was a dashing fellow whose love of show business manifested itself in many ways.
		Marshall also produced a few theatrical shows in Washington, including a musical called "Getting Gertie's Garter." This was in addition to running the Palace Laundry inherited from his father.
		That was on the heels of another year in which the mercurial Marshall accepted a $100,000 salary to be director of the Great Texas and Pan-American Exposition in Dallas.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/redskins/longterm/book/pages/16.htm (317 words)

	Integrating the Redskins: George Preston Marshall vs. the U.S. Government (washingtonpost.com)
		Udall warned Marshall that if he did not integrate the team, the new District of Columbia stadium might not be available to his Redskins that fall.
		Marshall reacted with an anger to be expected from one who was reaping large profits by keeping his team all white.
		Marshall hoped to stand his ground even against the federal government because of a financial empire he had constructed partly on his racist views.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A55798-2002Jun4¬Found=true (1864 words)

	preston
		Preston is the administrative capital of Lancashire in the North West of England.
		Preston is famous for, among other things, its large bus station (with 79 gates and popular with Suicide Jumpers), St Walburge's Church (the tallest church in England at 94 metres), and Preston North End F.C, one of the oldest English Football League teams.
		According to World Gazetteer[1], the population of Preston as of 2002 was about 183,400.
	www.fact-library.com /preston.html (151 words)

	Washington Redskins (1937-Present)
		The Redskins marched into their 2nd season in Washington with a band and a new fight song, which was penned by Owner George Preston Marshal's wife, Corrine Griffith, a former silent movie actress.
		However, the Redskins were furthered embarrassed when Owner George Preston Marshal was led out of the stadium by police after a verbal altercation with President Ralph Brizzolara.
		Owner George Preston Marshall only had a 50-cent budget for scouting, which was the price of couple of football magazines.
	www.sportsecyclopedia.com /nfl/washington/redskins.html (7246 words)

	Smith helped integrate Redskins - PittsburghLIVE.com
		"Marshall's theory was that writers didn't know as much football as they should," Siegel wrote in the Pro Football Chronicles anthology, shortly before his death in 1996.
		The only problem, the scout said, was that Smith was fl, and a lot of team owners would pass on him, especially Marshall, widely regard as the most racist baron in professional football.
		"George Preston Marshall was a special case," said Nichols College historian Thomas G. Smith, one of the nation's premier experts on civil rights and the NFL.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/trib/mostread/s_327215.html (1269 words)

	ESPN.com - Page2 - A rivalry for a song ... and chicken feed
		Marshall knew that he had strong fan loyalty in the South and was afraid of losing it to Dallas.
		Although Breeskin had written the music, Marshall's wife had written the lyrics, so Marshall had made the song the centerpiece of his elaborate pregame and halftime shows.
		Their target was Marshall's annual Christmas extravaganza staged at halftime during the Redskins' final home game which that year would be played against the Cowboys.
	espn.go.com /page2/wash/s/toomay/020314.html (1610 words)

	Boston Redskins (1932-1936)
		The players and spot in the league would eventually be handed over to George Preston Marshall who wanted to place a team in Boston.
		Marshall named his team after Major League Baseball's Braves, whom they shared a stadium with.
		Owner George Preston Marshall is so enraged he gives up home field for the NFC Championship Game, choosing to face the Packers at New York's Polo Grounds.
	www.sportsecyclopedia.com /nfl/wasbos/bosskins.html (518 words)

	Washington Redskins Online Research :: Information about Washington Redskins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Redskins play at FedEx Field, located in Landover, Maryland, Maryland in Prince George's County, Maryland, and is headquartered and trains in Ashburn, Virginia, Virginia, a community in Loudoun County, Virginia.
		The city of Boston, Massachusetts was awarded an NFL Franchise in 1932, under the ownership of George Preston Marshall.
		Marshall continued to refuse to integrate the team, despite pressure from the Washington Post and the Federal Government (a typical comment by Post writer Shirley Povich was " Cleveland Browns runner Jim Brown integrated the Redskins' end zone").
	in-northcarolina.com /search/Washington_Redskins.html (1819 words)

	Pro Football Hall of Fame - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Each entry includes the year of induction and the span of time spent with the team.
		When a person significantly contributed to more than one club, he is listed repeatedly (e.g., George Blanda is listed with the Chicago Bears, Houston Oilers (now the Tennessee Titans) and Oakland Raiders).
		George Allen (2002) – 1966-1970; 1979 (pre-season) #
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pro_Football_Hall_of_Fame (324 words)

	george c. marshall - Articles about george c. marshall
		This is a great honor tonight, and I accept the George C. Marshall award on behalf of all of our American soldiers.
		Marshall's plan: pay for peace: as a devastated Europe smoldered after World War II, general-turned-diplomat George C. Marshall proposed the idea of opening
		It is not unusual these days to see headlines in the editorial pages of newspapers that evoke the memory of the Marshall Plan, a post World War II program for the economic reconstruction of Eur...
	www.wordiq.com /article/george+c.+marshall.html (394 words)

	The Sporting News: Touch football. (former NFL commissioner Pete R... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When the meeting was about over, after Marshall had interrupted the proceedings so frequently that the new commissioner stopped talking, Rozelle stood and stared directly at his adversary.
		And here was Rozelle, in his 30s, telling legends such as Halas and the Maras and Marshall that to grow they must give up their individual TV deals and agree to divide equally revenue from a yet-to-be-negotiated nafional TV contract.
		And, oh yes, George Preston Marshall never wore his pj's, slippers and robe to another owners meeting.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:18970690&refid=ip_almanac_hf (961 words)

	Washington Redskins Article, WashingtonRedskins Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On the heels of Marshall's entry to the NationalFootball League, and evidently influenced by his racial policies, the other NFL teams dropped all fl players in 1933 and nonesigned fls again until 1946.
		In fact, in the 1936 NFL championship game, against the Green Bay Packers, the team was forced to play in New York 's Polo Grounds.
		He led the team to a 7-5-2 record, their best since 1955.Lombardi died of cancer after the season ended.
	www.anoca.org /team/coach/washington_redskins.html (951 words)

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