1970 Marshall Thundering Herd football team
| 1970 Marshall Thundering Herd football | |
|---|---|
| Conference | Independent |
| 1970 record | 3-6 |
| Head coach | Rick Tolley |
| Home stadium | Fairfield Stadium |
The 1970 Marshall Thundering Herd football team represented the Marshall University in the 1970 college football season.
On November 14, 1970, 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, West Virginia 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. It was the worst single air tragedy in NCAA sports history.
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