1970 Marshall Thundering Herd football season

The 1970 Marshall Thundering Herd football team represented the Marshall University in the 1970 NCAA Division I college football season.

Regular 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 University 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. All seventy-five people on board died. It was the worst single air tragedy in NCAA sports history.