Marshall Goldberg

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Marshall Goldberg
Date of birth	October 25, 1917
Place of birth	Elkins, West Virginia
Date of death	April 3, 2006
Place of death	Chicago, Illinois
Position(s)	Running Back
College	Pittsburgh
NFL Draft	1939 / Round 2 / Pick 12
Retired #s	Arizona Cardinals #99
Statistics	DatabaseFootball
Team(s)
1939-1943, 1946-1948	Chicago Cardinals
College Hall of Fame

Marshall Goldberg (October 25, 1917 – April 3, 2006) was an American football running back with the Chicago Cardinals in the National Football League.

Goldberg was born in Elkins, West Virginia. He was a high school legend, captaining his Elkins High School football, basketball, and track teams in 1935, and was elected All-State in each sport.

At the University of Pittsburgh under coach Jock Sutherland, he led his team to back-to-back national championships in 1936 and 1937. Goldberg's 1936 team won the Rose Bowl, and the 1937 Panthers earned the National Collegiate Championship. He was finished third in the 1937 Heisman Trophy voting, and was runner-up for the 1938 Heisman Trophy, and a two-time All-American (1937 & 1938). During his Pitt career he amassed 1,957 rushing yards, a school record that stood until 1974 when Tony Dorsett surpassed it.

After college he played professional football for the Chicago Cardinals from 1939-43, interrupted by his service during World War II in the U.S. Navy, then again from 1946-48. The Cardinals won the 1947 NFL Championship and captured the Division title in 1948. He was a four-time All-Pro. Goldberg was named All-Pro Defensive Back for three consecutive years — 1946, 1947, and 1948.

Later Sports Illustrated named him a member of the 1930s College Football Team of the Decade. In 1958 he was enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame, and later he was also inducted into the Halls of Fame of West Virginia, the City of Pittsburgh, and Pop Warner Football, and the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.

He worked in the insurance industry after his football career ended. In 1965 he took over a machine parts company, Marshall Goldberg Machine Tools Ltd., of Rosemont, Illinois.

Goldberg died at age 88 at a nursing home in Chicago.