plane crash

Rising from the ashes

Athletics, Sports News / By Elizabeth Johnson

Sophie McDonald Sports Editor It was a rainy November night when a chartered plane carrying nearly the entire Marshall University football team crashed into a West Virginia mountainside in what is considered the worst single air tragedy in NCAA sports history. Monday marks the 41st anniversary of the plane crash, which had a significant impact Read More

Reflecting, rebuilding the Thundering Herd

Athletics, Sports News / By Elizabeth Johnson

Sophie McDonald Sports Editor After the plane crash of 1970, Marshall University was without a football team for two years. When the program was reestablished in 1972, Rex Repass was a freshman recruit on the team known as The Young Thundering Herd. Repass, first cousin of former Murray State Housing Director Paula Hulick, played high Read More