Jim Marshall

Who is Jim Marshall?

James "Jim" Lawrence Marshall is a retired American football player who played defensive end for the Cleveland Browns and the Minnesota Vikings. At the time of his retirement, he owned the career records for most consecutive starts and games played.

He was born in Wilsonville, in Boyle County, Kentucky, near Parksville. Wilsonville was a small settlement where newly freed slaves had lived. Marshall lived there until he was 5, moving to Columbus, Ohio; however, he came back to Wilsonville every summer until he was 15, when his grandfather died. His aunt, Ella Mae Marshall, was the first special education teacher in Boyle County, and she worked to preserve the black school where she and Marshall's mother had taught.