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 NCAA Division I-A football season.

Regular season

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

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, 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 seventy-five people on board died. It was the worst single air tragedy in NCAA sports history.^[1]

Date	Time	Opponent^#	Site	Result
September 19		Morehead State*	Fairfield Stadium • Huntington, WV	W 17-7
September 26		Toledo*	Glass Bowl • Toledo, OH	L 52-3
October 3		Xavier*	Corcoran Stadium • Cincinnati, OH	W 31-14
October 10		Miami U*	Fairfield Stadium • Huntington, WV	L 19-12
October 17		Louisville*	Fairfield Stadium • Huntington, WV	L 16-14
October 24		Western Michigan*	Fairfield Stadium • Huntington, WV	L 34-3
October 31		Bowling Green*	Doyt Perry Stadium • Bowling Green, OH	L 26-24
November 7		Kent State*	Fairfield Stadium • Huntington, WV	W 20-17
November 14		East Carolina*	Ficklen Stadium • Greenville, NC	L 17-14
November 21	Cancelled	Ohio*	Peden Stadium • Athens, OH
*Non-conference game. Homecoming. ^#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Eastern Time.

Marshall Thundering Herd football

Venues	Fairfield Stadium (1927–1990) Joan C. Edwards Stadium (1991–present)

Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games East Carolina Ohio: Battle for the Bell West Virginia: Friends of Coal Bowl

Culture & lore	Marco the Buffalo "Sons of Marshall" Marching Thunder Southern Airways Flight 932 Marshall University: Ashes to Glory We Are Marshall

People	Head coaches NFL draftees Statistical leaders

Seasons	1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

National championship seasons in bold

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