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• MARSHALL FOOTBALL STORY WINDOWS

In perhaps the saddest ceremony of all, six players whose remains couldn’t be identified were buried together in Spring Hill Cemetery, on a hill overlooking their university. A chartered Southern Airlines plane, transporting players, coaches, wives and boosters of Marshall University, crashed and burned into a wet, foggy hillside. There were so many funerals that they had to be spread out over several weeks.

The university held a memorial service in the stadium the next day and cancelled Monday’s classes.

MARSHALL FOOTBALL STORY WINDOWS

Shops and government offices closed businesses on the town’s main street draped their windows in black bunting. “Everybody knows where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news.” “The whole fabric,” a citizen of Huntington wrote later, “the whole heart of the town was aboard.”įor Huntington, the plane crash was “like the Kennedy assassination,” one citizen remembers. Thirty-seven Marshall football players were aboard the plane, along with the team’s coach, its doctors, the university athletic director and 25 team boosters - some of Huntington’s most prominent citizens - who had traveled to North Carolina to cheer on the Thundering Herd.

Marshall Football A Story of Survival and Revival,' tells the story about what life has been like for the former. The story told in We Are Marshall sounds a little like the invention of a screenwriter, but the airplane crash that took the lives of college football players. The team was returning from that day’s game, a 17-14 loss to East Carolina University. Janu12:15 am Marshall University has hired Charles Huff as the next head football coach, replacing Doc Holliday who was fired after 11 seasons. Sholten Singer/The Herald-Dispatch Red Dawsons book, 'A Coach In Progress. On November 14, 1970, a chartered jet carrying most of the Marshall University football team clipped a stand of trees and crashed into a hillside just two miles from the Tri-State Airport in Kenova, West Virginia, near Huntington. 23, 1998:First bowl game victoryMarshall knocked off South Carolina its first win against a Southeastern Conference opponent on the way to capturing the Mid-American Conference. (Cordova) On November 14, 1970, 75 people lost their lives in a plane crash that killed almost the entire Marshall University football team. The crash occurred less than 24 hours earlier on a hillside in Kenova, West Virginia, just west of the Tri-State Airport runway in Huntington.

This Novemphoto shows portions of the wreckage of a DC-9 chartered jet that carried 75 persons, including most of the Marshall University football team, to their deaths.