HUNTINGTON — If you are a long time Herd fan, you remember the great Marshall-Morris Harvey College rivalry, especially on the hardwood courts of the Veteran’s Memorial Field House in Huntington and the Eddie King Gym on the campus that is now known as the University of Charleston. Marshall and Morris Harvey started playing in the 1907-08 season, back when MHC was in Barboursville and was a Herd opponent in basketball, baseball and football.
The two schools stayed rivals, continuing after the school was moved from Barboursville to Charleston in the mid-1930s, until the Golden Eagles dropped football in the mid-1950s, and the Herd baseball program doesn’t play many Division II teams these days, but the basketball rivalry ran all the way up to the 2000-01 season and featured many great games in Huntington and Charleston.