Marshall Thundering Herd football
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| First season | 1895 | ||
| Athletic director | Mike Hamrick | ||
| Head coach |
Doc Holliday 7th year, 53–37 (.589) |
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| Stadium | Joan C. Edwards Stadium | ||
| Field | James F. Edwards Field | ||
| Seating capacity | 38,227 | ||
| Field surface | FieldTurf | ||
| Location | Huntington, West Virginia, U.S. | ||
| Conference | C-USA | ||
| Division | East | ||
| All-time record | 574–532–48 (.518) | ||
| Bowl record | 10–3 (.769) | ||
| Claimed nat'l titles | Div. I FCS: 2 | ||
| Conference titles | 13 | ||
| Division titles | 8 | ||
| Consensus All-Americans | 44 | ||
| Colors | Green and White |
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| Fight song | Sons of Marshall | ||
| Mascot | Marco the Buffalo | ||
| Marching band | Marching Thunder | ||
| Outfitter | Nike | ||
| Rivals |
Ohio Bobcats East Carolina Pirates |
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| Website | HerdZone.com | ||
The Marshall Thundering Herd football team is an intercollegiate varsity sports program of Marshall University. The team represents the university as a member of the Conference USA Eastern division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, playing at the Division I Bowl Subdivision level.
Marshall plays at Joan C. Edwards Stadium, which seats 38,227 and is expandable to 55,000. As of the end of the 2015 football season, Marshall has an impressive 148-26 overall record at Joan C. Edwards Stadium for a winning percentage of .851. The University of Alabama ranks second with an .825 winning percentage at Bryant-Denny Stadium. The stadium opened in 1991 as Marshall University Stadium with a crowd of 33,116 for a 24-23 win over New Hampshire. On September 10, 2010, the Thundering Herd played the in-state rival West Virginia Mountaineers in Huntington in front of a record crowd of 41,382. Joan C. Edwards Stadium is one of two Division I stadium named solely for a woman with South Carolina's Williams-Brice Stadium being the other. The playing field itself is named James F. Edwards Field after Mrs. Edwards husband, businessman and philanthropist James F. Edwards.
Marshall first fielded a football team in 1895. The team didn't have a coach that year or from 1897–1901. The first coach in Marshall football history was George Ford from 1902–1903.
Boyd Chambers was Marshall's head football coach from 1909-1916. He is most well known for calling the "Tower Play," where one receiver lifted another up on his shoulders to complete a pass, during the 1915 season, leading to a rule change in 1916.
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