CHARLESTON — A bill passed unanimously in the West Virginia state Senate on Wednesday that would make Nov. 14, the date of the 1970 Marshall University plane crash, an official
Fifty years ago, on November 14, 1970, a plane carrying 75 members of the Marshall University football team, boosters and community leaders crashed on approach to Huntington Tri-State airport, killing everyone on board.The crash changed the university as the students and faculty grieved. The accident also changed the city of Huntington, and the relationship between the university and the town as well.
Former John Battle coach Rick Tolley died in Marshall s 1970 football team plane crash. Former John Battle coach Stafford Stephenson avoided Evansville s 1977 basketball team plane crash, because he was