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To rebuild following the plane crash, Lengyel recruited athletes from the baseball and basketball teams. Marshall athletic director, Joe McMullen, hired Jack Lengyel to be head coach in 1971. Tolley was killed on November 14, 1970, in a plane crash which killed all 75 passengers, including 37 players, five coaches, administrators, family, friends, and the Southern Airways five-person crew, as it returned to West Virginia after a game against East Carolina. Rick Tolley was Marshall's head football coach for two seasons, coming to Marshall from his post as defensive line coach for Wake Forest and posting records of 3–7 and 3–6. See also: Southern Airways Flight 932 The memorial at Spring Hill Cemetery in Huntington, West Virginia to the victims of the Southern Airways Flight 932 crash. He is best known for calling the 'Tower Play', where one receiver lifted another up on his shoulders to complete a pass, during the 1915 season. History Early history (1895–1987) Boyd Chambers, the coach who called the 'Tower Play'.īoyd Chambers was Marshall's head football coach from 1909 to 1916. Edwards Field after Joan Edwards' husband, who was a businessman and philanthropist. Edwards Stadium is one of two Division I stadiums named for a woman. On September 10, 2010, Marshall played the in-state rival West Virginia Mountaineers in Huntington in front of a record crowd of 41,382. The stadium opened in 1991 as Marshall University Stadium with a crowd of 33,116 for a 24–23 win over New Hampshire. Edwards Stadium for a winning percentage of.

At the end of the 2022 football season, Marshall had a 181–44 record at Joan C. Edwards Stadium, which seats 38,227 and is expandable to 55,000. The team represents the university as a member of the Sun Belt Conference East Division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, playing at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level. The Marshall Thundering Herd football team is an intercollegiate varsity sports program of Marshall University.

Marshall Thundering Herd footballĢ023 Marshall Thundering Herd football team For the soccer team, see Marshall Thundering Herd men's soccer.

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