1970 Marshall Thundering Herd football team

1970 Marshall Thundering Herd football
Conference	Independent
1970 record	3-6
Head coach	Rick Tolley
Home stadium	Fairfield Stadium

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

Regular season

See also: Southern Airways Flight 932

File:MUcrash1970MemSpringHill.jpg

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

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

Season schedule

Game	Date	Opponent	Result	Thundering Herd points	Opponents	Record
1	Sept. 19	Morehead State	Win	17	7	1-0
2	Sept. 26	@ Toledo	Loss	3	52	1-1
3	Oct. 3	@ Xavier	Win	31	14	2-1
4	Oct. 10	Miami (OH)	Loss	12	19	2-2
5	Oct. 17	Louisville	Loss	14	16	2-3
6	Oct. 24	Western Michigan	Loss	3	34	2-4
7	Oct. 31	@ Bowling Green	Loss	24	26	2-5
8	Nov. 7	Kent State	Win	20	17	3-5
9	Nov. 14	@ East Carolina	Loss	14	17	3-6
10	Nov. 21	@ Ohio	Cancelled