Foxy Marshall was a graduate of Bristol’s Colt Memorial High School and a multi-year champion coach at Portsmouth High School.  But during the twelve-year period that he spent coaching Warren High School football teams, he bled maroon and white.

He was a Redskins assistant coach under Hall of Famer Pat Abbruzzi from 1970 to 1977.  In that time-frame Warren High captured championships in 1972, 1973, 1974, and 1975, winning thirty-two straight league contests and copping the second-ever Class B Super Bowl over East Greenwich in the last of those four seasons.

Before the 1978 season Pat Abbruzzi announced one of his multiple retirements and for the next four years, Foxy served as the Redskins’ head coach.  His best team was the 1979 squad that won both the Class B Small and Super Bowl Championships, capturing the latter with a 21-6 win over Smithfield.  But two other proud moments came in 1980 when “my boys” knocked off lopsided favorite Class A La Salle and in 1981 when his eleven defeated the Bristol Colts for the first time in four tries.

In 1982 Foxy served as the head coach at Roger Williams College.  In his only season he took a team that had lost thirty-two games in a row and compiled a five win and five loss record in the New England Football Collegiate Conference.

The following year he was appointed a volunteer assistant football coach by Coach Bob Griffin of the University of Rhode Island.  Foxy was responsible for special teams defense.

He then moved to Portsmouth High School, where he was the Assistant Varsity Coach for one year and the Head Football Coach for the next decade.  As Head Coach Foxy compiled a record of one hundred and three wins, nine losses, and two ties.  The Patriots won seven regular season and six Super Bowl Championships, two in Class C, one in Class B, and three (consecutive) in Class A. 

Picture from Hall of Fame archives