Tolley was able to turn things around and managed to win three straight games against Bowling Green (21–16), Kent State (31–20) and East Carolina (38–7).
The final game of the 1969 season was a loss against Ohio (38–35) with the Bobcats scoring their winning touchdown with five seconds left.
Twenty-eight Marshall players had signed a petition and presented it to Governor Arch Moore asking that suspended head coach Perry Moss be named to the top spot.
Mary Jane Tolley later moved back to Virginia, where she taught English and creative writing for high school students.
She can be seen in a final scene in the movie We Are Marshall with many people gathered around the university Memorial Water Fountain honoring and remembering the crash victims.