Hall of Fame
He coached and refereed boxing at Cornell, was a wartime physical education instructor, and faculty advisor to football and swimming. He served as the first chairman of the Ivy League athletic eligibility committee. A professor of history and an expert on English constitutional history, he taught at Cornell for over 70 years and was an advisor and friend to three generations of Cornellians. In the early 1940s when the university gave up boxing as an intercollegiate sport, he kept the sport going on an intramural level; it was Marcham who convinced the faculty that boxing should be given intercollegiate status, as he had an intense interest and involvement in Cornell athletics. (The Hall of Fame Selection Committee voted that he be the recipient of the Distinguished Service to Athletics Award in 1988.)
