The worst tragedy in college football history in my town.

[isabeau]

the trailer has been released, about the tragic plane crash in the early seventies..that wiped out most of Marshall's Thundering Herd's football team.in Huntington, WV. but this film shows how a new coach rebuilt an entire new football team, following the deaths of those players and alumni..most of this movie was filmed right here in Huntington..this last year.and will be released in December..here is the trailer link..

http://www.wsaz.com/home/headlines/3864267.html

 

[Nedstacey2]

That was really interesting, isabeau. I was just a kid then and strangely enough even though I don't remember the crash of the Marshall plane, I do still recall the accident that happened only a month before in which most of Wichita State's football team perished. One of the most vivid memories I carry with me from childhood is that of a news photo from the crash site featuring in the foreground a football helmet, lying upright on the ground with its side to the camera showing its "W" logo which seemed incongruously to shine forth brightly amidst the wreckage in the black-and-white photograph.

That would have been a fitting symbol if football at Wichita had not only survived the disaster but later thrived as did Marshall's, but the crash in fact eventually put an end to that university's program. If anybody's interested, here are a couple of links about the Wichita State tragedy, one of which is a rather morbid one which catalogs other notable fatal aviation incidents involving individuals or teams from the world of sports (up to 2000, so there's no mention, for example, of the two NHL ex-players and scouts for the Los Angeles Kings who were aboard one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center towers):

• http://espn.go.com/ncf/s/2000/1113/875480.html

• http://www.super70s.com/Super70s/Tech/Aviation/Disasters/70-10-02(Martin404).asp

• http://www.super70s.com/Super70s/Tech/Aviation/Disasters/70-10-02(Martin404)_Photos.asp

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[isabeau]

That was really interesting, isabeau. I was just a kid then and strangely enough even though I don't remember the crash of the Marshall plane, I do still recall the accident that happened only a month before in which most of Wichita State's football team perished. One of the most vivid memories I carry with me from childhood is that of a news photo from the crash site featuring in the foreground a football helmet, lying upright on the ground with its side to the camera showing its "W" logo which seemed incongruously to shine forth brightly amidst the wreckage in the black-and-white photograph.

That would have been a fitting symbol if football at Wichita had not only survived the disaster but later thrived as did Marshall's, but the crash in fact eventually put an end to that university's program. If anybody's interested, here are a couple of links about the Wichita State tragedy, one of which is a rather morbid one which catalogs other notable fatal aviation incidents involving individuals or teams from the world of sports (up to 2000, so there's no mention, for example, of the two NHL ex-players and scouts for the Los Angeles Kings who were aboard one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center towers):

• http://espn.go.com/ncf/s/2000/1113/875480.html

• http://www.super70s.com/Super70s/Tech/Aviation/Disasters/70-10-02(Martin404).asp

• http://www.super70s.com/Super70s/Tech/Aviation/Disasters/70-10-02(Martin404)_Photos.asp

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thanks for the info...i never knew there was a fatal crash in Wichita that year..i was also a kid..and don't remember the Marshall crash either..i wasn't living in this city then however..that's a shame that the Wichita football team failed afterwards..