The Marshall Story: College Football's Greatest Comeback - Softcover

Rick Nolte; Dave Wellman; Tim Stephens; Mickey Johnson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0977671194 ISBN 13: 9780977671199

Publisher: Sphinx Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

On a dank, rainy evening in mid-November 1970, a Southern Airways jet carrying the Marshall football team home to Huntington, West Virginia, after a disappointing 17-14 loss at East Carolina, crashed just short of Tri-State Airport. Killed were 37 players, 33 staff members, coaches and boosters, and the five-person crew of the DC-9. A team of promise was gone in an instant. The Marshall Story relates the true and inspiring story of how Marshall and a shocked community rebounded from the tragedy. Led by coach Jack Lengyel, the Thundering Herd became the Young Herd, a group of overachievers that improbably won two games in their first season and started Marshall on its long road back to respectability. The Marshall Story will make you weep and cheer. It's a tribute to those who sacrificed and those who persevered. But, most of all, The Marshall Story is a story of overcoming long odds and making it to the top.

About this title

About the Author:

Written by four former sports reporters and editors who covered Thundering Herd football over parts of four decades.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sphinx Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0977671194
• ISBN 13: 9780977671199
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228