HUNTINGTON – Marshall football wore its black jerseys and the No. 75 on the back of its helmets to honor the 75 persons lost in the Nov. 14, 1970 Herd football airline charter crash just short of Tri-State Airport, and wore the logo of the “Young” Thundering Herd team from 1971 of Coach Jack Lengyel to thank that team for keeping football going at Marshall University in the wake of the worst air-related sports tragedy of all time. Then Marshall played like teams in who won National Championships in I-AA in 1992 and 1996, as well as the No.
Marshall Honors 75 Lost, Young Thundering Herd With Rout of Middle Tennessee, 42-17
