1970 Marshall Thundering Herd football team

In its second season under head coach Rick Tolley, the team compiled a 3–6 record and was outscored by a total of 202 to 138.

[1] The team played its home games at Fairfield Stadium in Huntington, West Virginia.

On November 14, 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, crashed on approach to Tri-State Airport after clipping trees just west of the runway and impacting nose-first into a hollow.

It was the worst single air tragedy in NCAA sports history.

Players listed in bold italics died in the plane crash on November 14, 1970, along with student trainer Donald Tackett.

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