1970_Marshall_Thundering_Herd_football_team

1970 Marshall Thundering Herd football team

1970 Marshall Thundering Herd football team

American college football season

The 1970 Marshall Thundering Herd football team was an American football team that represented Marshall University as an independent during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. In its second season under head coach Rick Tolley, the team compiled a 3–6 record and was outscored by a total of 202 to 138.[1] The team played its home games at Fairfield Stadium in Huntington, West Virginia.

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Memorial at Spring Hill Cemetery in Huntington, West Virginia to the victims of the 1970 plane crash.

On November 14, Southern Airways Flight 932, which was chartered by the school to fly the Thundering Herd football team, coaches, and fans to Kinston, North Carolina for a game against the East Carolina Pirates and back to Huntington, crashed on approach to Tri-State Airport after clipping trees just west of the runway and impacting nose-first into a hollow. All 75 people on board died. 37 of them were members of the football team. It was the worst single air tragedy in NCAA sports history. The tragedy was depicted in the movie We Are Marshall (2006) and the documentary film Marshall University: Ashes to Glory (2000).

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Coaching staff

  • Rick Tolley – Head coach
  • Jim Moss – Offensive coordinator
  • Red Dawson – Defensive coordinator
  • Deke Brackett – Kicking Game
  • Al Carelli, Jr. – Offensive line
  • Mickey Jackson – Backfield
  • Carl Kokor – Defensive line
  • Frank Loria – Defensive backs

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "2008 Marshall Football Guide" (PDF). Marshall University. 2018. p. 186. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 22, 2022. Retrieved August 25, 2020.
  2. [2]
    "Herd's comeback crushes victory bid by XU, 31–14". The Cincinnati Enquirer. October 4, 1970. Retrieved May 3, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. [3]
    "Marshall beaten by Pirates, 17–14". The News and Observer. November 15, 1970. Retrieved March 2, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. [4]
    "Marshall vs Ohio". Special Collections.
  5. [5]
    "Memories of Marshall; ex-player says shock of crash never ends". The Blade.


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