Marshall Thundering Herd - Game's final moments ECU 1970

[4wheelerDJ]

I read that another factor in the crash was that the airport had a Landing Tracking system (ILS, I think?) it wasn't using that night.

[pureindian407]

speaking from the knight nation, god bless the herd from the 70s and much respect to marshall for having the strength to bounce back from such a horrible tragedy. much respect for my school opponents last weekend.

[Nickelplatealloy]

I'm guessing Marshall was in white?

[lilz28chevy]

I just watched the movie about this team and R.I.P too the 1970's Marshall Thundering Herd

[Commandert1TV]

@piratesmvp there parents wouldn't let them go so they stayed back there were no survivors my uncle Joe died on this crash #33

[TheRubbyroo]

@Commandert1TV it was because they were Freshman which back then they wouldn't allow Freshman to play. And there were Hurt players that didn't go on.

[shilea1star]

@Commandert1TV sorry for ur lost.

[Persephone61]

@Commandert1TV

I am ever so sorry......

[piratesmvp]

Did the three surviving football players play for the new team?

[BamaShari]

soprisrb first they were mostly all kids.. except for the coaches and boosters and second.. what a callous comment.

God Bless the survivors... that would be the families, the university and the town..

November 14th is my birthday and I remember all too well the events of that day. I'm a Bama fan first.. but for the last 40 years I have followed Marshall as well... and am proud of the progress they have made...

[dcbandnerd]

On behalf of the entire Pirate Nation, I am so sorry for your loss; even though it's been 40 years. Young men shouldn't die while they're still young; especially in a plane crash.

[quietriotfan1976]

Knowing what fate was just a few hours away, it's eerie watching this

[Minerotronick]

Are they the ones in white?

[galveston]

That's haunting, knowing that all those boys would be dead in a few hours.

[redfury0156]

My father and and my uncle went to marshall durring this time. My uncle as already in school there, and my dad was a freshmen a yr later,... this footage i apat of my family and i thank u for sharing it.

[SuferGirl1001]

I've seen the movie and stuff...but what I never found out was HOW the plane crashed...?

[kentuckydeb55]

The plane was a charter whose pilots had never flown into our hilltop airport before. Visibility was bad and they came in too low, clipping trees on the hilltop before the runway and fell into the valley below. Our community was changed forever.

[nhomkg]

@SuferGirl1001 the plane crashed by lightning

[skankuser]

I always find it eerie to watch footage like this, especially when you know what happens to them.

[ripperduck]

I was looking at the Marshall 1970 roster and it struck me how much smaller players were then compared to now. MU had no one over 250lbs. Now FB's are that size. Still these guys played hard and with skill. I don't know if I can believe in god when tragedies like this happen. On the same weekend 60k people were killed in Asian natural disaster. Too much sorrow, too much pain....

[DermochelysCoriacea]

I read an old epitaph which read, " How wide the torrent rolls, That bears us to the tomb; Which ends our toils and sorrows here, And bears our spirits home."

[ripperduck]

Thanks! That is beautiful and profound....I will remember that....

[IcKeYsGhOsT]

"But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."

ripperduck, we aren't in Eden anymore!

[ripperduck]

Uhhh yeah, I sort of figured that out about two decades ago....but thanks for the reminder anyway....

[DermochelysCoriacea]

This is the Marshall team involved in the 1970 crash?

[MUTwirler92]

Yes

[ripperduck]

Yes...

[angeldiamond70]

I Had been wanting to see the movie since I heard that it had came out because I grew up in a small town in West Virginia about four hours away and I never knew that this had happened! But any ways I just got the movie last night at wll mart in the five dollar bin and I loved every second of it! Is there any way that I could get the 1971 game with Xavier?

[rororoy26]

i would love if i can see the real game in 1971 when Marshal was win vs Xavier University !!! with original audio and the complete game

[lovabledanser505]

My teacher's brother-in-law was number 88, RIP AL SAYLOR!!!...that event was soooo sad, it ruiined my day, and today's my parent's 16 or 15 anniversary

[newt0830]

17 to 14.

Amen

[MUTwirler92]

A bit of trivia: The kicker for ECU(1970) -his daughter went to Marshall (or goes to Marshall) on a (I think) softball scholarship. He had never told her about what happened(the crash) until she came in and told him she was thinking of going to Marshall.

[PioneerPA]

And she had a walk-off single to beat ECU her senior season in a game in Huntington. Her name is Gina Guzzo.

[MUTwirler92]

Thanks- I'm horrible with names!

[kylejenky]

god bless marshall

[bmorfan]

little off topic hear but that WAS a BS call the fullback was going out for a pass.

anyway its sad to no that the marshall players and coaches died that night.

GOD BLESS MARSHALL

[newt0830]

an entire football team....it is incomprehensible

[Andrew22915]

Actualy when the team got on the plane the fild was not on it. Some one else had it to get it published. Well when the movie was being writen the guy saved it and never could make himself watch it. Sad storry and amazing/

[thestupidstopcom]

its hard to think that all those people dead in the video...touching

[Justinley736]

I went to ECU....sad..God bless

[dorkwad852]

i just watched the movie

we are marshall!

[tomster619619]

i watched the movie yesterday so sad RIP marshall university football team 1970

[Koishii57]

Wow! Amazing you came across this footage ^_^ Wow...It's sad..to see that they lost the night they died. That's so so sad...

[FVSUWildcat]

That is sad indeed, watching this footage and knowing that they perished that very night

[Fuzzykimba]

So sad...

[canamWVU]

Can anyone tell me when the phrase "We are Marshall" started being used? I was 14 yrs old then. I don't recall that phrase being used until years later. Very good movie I might add.

[xabcx]

yeah it started being used shortly after 1970

[irishgirl1543]

i just saw the movie today it made me cry

i feel so bad

but i loved the movie

[site90]

=( sad

[bigjoe23465]

i just saw the movie today i feel so bad.

[Fat918]

Thanks for posting this. I am very interested in MU.

[ecup1r8]

Very cool! I wish the clips had sound! I am looking forward too seeing "We Are Marshall" when it comes out next month!

[WVUstinks]

this is so neat.thanks for sharing