1970 Marshall Thundering Herd football team
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The 1970 Marshall Thundering Herd football team represented the Marshall University
in the 1970 NCAA Division I 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 University
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 seventy-five people on board died. It was the worst single air tragedy in NCAA sports history.
Marshall University
Marshall University is a coeducational public research university in Huntington, West Virginia, United States founded in 1837, and named after John Marshall, the fourth Chief Justice of the United States....
in the 1970 NCAA Division I college football season.
Regular season
Marshall Thundering Herd
The Marshall Thundering Herd are the intercollegiate athletic teams that collectively represent the Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. Thundering Herd athletic teams compete in Conference USA, which are members of the NCAA Division I...
football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
team, coaches, and fans to Kinston
Greenville, North Carolina
Greenville is the county seat of Pitt County and principal city of the Greenville, North Carolina metropolitan area. Greenville is the health, entertainment, and educational hub of North Carolina's Tidewater and Coastal Plain and in 2008 was listed as the Tenth Largest City in North Carolina...
, North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
for a game against the East Carolina University
East Carolina University
East Carolina University is a public, coeducational, engaged doctoral/research university located in Greenville, North Carolina, United States. Named East Carolina University by statute and commonly known as ECU or East Carolina, the university is the largest institution of higher learning in...
Pirates
East Carolina Pirates
The East Carolina Pirates are the intercollegiate sports teams representing East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. All varsity-level sports teams sponsored by the university compete in NCAA Division I as a member of Conference USA...
and back to Huntington, crashed on approach to Tri-State Airport
Tri-State Airport
Tri-State Airport , also known as Milton J. Ferguson Field, is a public-use airport in Wayne County, West Virginia, United States. The airport is located three nautical miles south of the central business district of Huntington, West Virginia, near the cities of Ceredo and Kenova...
after clipping trees just west of the runway and impacting nose-first into a hollow. All seventy-five people on board died. It was the worst single air tragedy in NCAA sports history.
Season schedule
| Game | Date | Opponent | Result | Thundering Herd points | Opponents | Record |
| 1 | Sept. 19 | Morehead State | Win | 17 | 7 | 1-0 |
| 2 | Sept. 26 | @ Toledo | Loss | 3 | 52 | 1-1y |
| 3 | Oct. 3 | @ Xavier | Win | 31 | 14 | 2-1 |
| 4 | Oct. 10 | Miami, Ohio | Loss | 12 | 19 | 2-2 |
| 5 | Oct. 17 | Louisville | Loss | 14 | 16 | 2-3 |
| 6 | Oct. 24 | Western Michigan | Loss | 3 | 34 | 2-4 |
| 7 | Oct. 31 | @ Bowling Green State | Loss | 24 | 26 | 2-5 |
| 8 | Nov. 7 | Kent State | Win | 20 | 17 | 3-5 |
| 9 | Nov. 14 | @ East Carolina | Loss | 14 | 17 | 3-6 |