1970 Marshall Thundering Herd football team

1970 Marshall Thundering Herd football
Conference Independent
1970 record 3–6
Head coach Rick Tolley (2nd season)
Home stadium Fairfield Stadium
1970 NCAA University Division independents football records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
No. 2 Notre Dame   –    10 –1 –0
Villanova   –    9 –2 –0
No. 16 Air Force   –    9 –3 –0
No. 13 Georgia Tech   –    9 –3 –0
Boston College   –    8 –2 –0
No. 19 Houston   –    8 –3 –0
West Virginia   –    8 –3 –0
No. 17 Tulane   –    8 –4 –0
No. 18 Penn State   –    7 –3 –0
Temple   –    7 –3 –0
West Texas State   –    7 –3 –0
Cincinnati   –    7 –4 –0
Florida State   –    7 –4 –1
Virginia Tech   –    5 –6 –0
Syracuse   –    6 –4 –0
Dayton   –    5 –4 –1
Pittsburgh   –    5 –5 –0
Rutgers   –    5 –5 –0
Utah State   –    5 –5 –0
Colgate   –    5 –6 –0
Southern Miss   –    5 –6 –0
New Mexico State   –    4 –6 –0
Miami (FL)   –    3 –8 –0
Northern Illinois   –    3 –7 –0
Marshall   –    3 –6 –0
Buffalo   –    2 –9 –0
Navy   –    2 –9 –0
Army   –    1 –9 –1
Xavier   –    1 –9 –0
Rankings from AP Poll

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.[1]

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

Schedule

Date Time Opponent Site TV Result Attendance
September 19 Morehead State Fairfield Stadium • Huntington, WV W 17–7    
September 26 at Toledo Glass Bowl • Toledo, OH L 3–52    
October 3 at Xavier Corcoran Stadium • Cincinnati, OH W 31–14    
October 10 Miami (OH) Fairfield Stadium • Huntington, WV L 12–19    
October 17 Louisville Fairfield Stadium • Huntington, WV L 14–16    
October 24 Western Michigan Fairfield Stadium • Huntington, WV L 3–34    
October 31 at Bowling Green Doyt Perry Stadium • Bowling Green, OH L 24–26    
November 7 Kent State Fairfield Stadium • Huntington, WV W 20–17    
November 14 at East Carolina Ficklen Stadium • Greenville, NC L 14–17    
November 21 at Ohio* Peden Stadium • Athens, OH Canceled
All times are in Eastern Time.

Roster

1970 Marshall Thundering Herd football team roster
Players Coaches
Offense
Pos.#NameClass
QB 12 Bob Harris Jr
QB 14 Ted Shoebridge Jr
QB 20 Rick Lech Jr
RB 22 Art Harris So
RB/KR 25 Kevin Gilmore Sr
RB 30 Dickie Carter Sr
TE 35 Barry Nash So
OL 50 Rick Dardinger Sr
OL 51 Jim Adams Sr
OL 52 Mike Swartley So
OL 53 Wes Hickman Jr
OL 54 Jim Sly Jr
C 55 Dennis Foley So
C 59 Allen Skeens So
OG 60 Tom Howard Jr
OL 61 Mark Andrews Jr
OL 63 Jack Crabtree So
OG 67 Mike Blake So
OT 71 Bob Patterson Jr
OT 73 Jon Calvin So
OT 76 David DeBord Sr
WR 80 Dennis Blevins Jr
WR 82 Jack Repasy Jr
WR 86 John Young So
TE 87 Freddy Wilson So
 Defense
Pos.#NameClass
DB 21 Felix Jordan So
DB 25 Nate Ruffin Jr
DB 27 Roger Childers So
DL 31 Willie Bluford Jr
RB 33 Joe Hood So
LB 34 Art Shannon Jr
LB 35 Dave Cyrus Sr
DB 40 Larry Sanders Jr
DB 41 Bobby Hill So
DB 42 Tony Barile So
DB 43 Stuart Cottrell So
DB 44 Richard Taglang Jr
DB 45 Gary Morgan So
LB 56 Jerry Stainback Sr
DL 62 Tom Zborill Jr
DL 64 Greg Finn Jr
DL 65 Tom Brown Sr
LB 68 Larry Brown Sr
DL 70 Ed Deeds Jr
DL 72 Fred Gaudet Jr
DL 74 Paul Oden So
DL 75 Robert Van Horn So
DL 77 Eddie Carter So
DL 79 David Withers So
LB 81 Dave Griffith Sr
LB 83 Scotty Reese Jr
DE 84 Pete Naputano Jr
DE 85 Roger Vanover Jr
DE 88 Al Saylor So
 Special teams
Pos.#NameClass
PK/P 23 Marcelo Lajterman So
P 32 Richard Brautigan So

Coaching staff

  • Rick Tolley - Head Coach
  • Jim Moss - Offensive Coordinator
  • Red Dawson - Defensive Coordinator
  • Deke Brackett - Kicking Game
  • Al Carelli, Jr. - Offensive line
  • Mickey Jackson - Backfield
  • Carl Kokor - Defensive Line
  • Frank Loria - Defensive Backs

References

  1. ↑ http://www.marshall.edu/library/speccoll/virtual_museum/memorial/
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