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GoMuskies
02-20-2020, 12:15 PM
They granted ECU's request to host Marshall a week before college football starts for everyone else so that they could have the weekend themselves to honor the 50th anniversary of the Marshall plane crash. The plane crashed on its way back from a Marshall game at ECU in 1970.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/28743117/east-carolina-marshall-game-moved-remember-1970-tragedy
xubrew
02-20-2020, 03:58 PM
It's good to see that even pea-brains get it right sometimes.
xu82
02-20-2020, 04:17 PM
Oh, those blind squirrels!!! They can surprise you sometimes!
UCGRAD4X
02-27-2020, 09:27 AM
Good call (as I swallow hard).

I remember this well as Marshall was a regular opponent of the now defunct football squad.
flatspat
02-27-2020, 09:44 AM
Good call (as I swallow hard).

I remember this well as Marshall was a regular opponent of the now defunct football squad.

Xavier football team was marshalls first opponent when football returned

That game was featured in the movie " We are Marshall"
GoMuskies
02-27-2020, 10:13 AM
Xavier football team was marshalls first opponent when football returned

That game was featured in the movie " We are Marshall"

Close enough, but not quite right. That was Marshall's first home game. They lost a game or two on the road before coming home to beat Xavier.

Here's the schedule, by the way: https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/marshall/1971-schedule.html

That win over Xavier was sandwiched between a 29-6 loss at Morehead State and a 66-6 loss at Miami (OH). Their only other win was 12-10 over Bowling Green.

Xavier finished the year a healthy 1-9 with its lone win over what must have been a really awful Bowling Green team. 42-27. One of Xavier's losses was to the Quantico Marines.
paulxu
02-27-2020, 10:32 AM
One of Xavier's losses was to the Quantico Marines.

They had the best half time shows. Use to bring their silent drill team to the stadium.
UCGRAD4X
02-29-2020, 09:18 AM
They had the best half time shows. Use to bring their silent drill team to the stadium.

Who was the drum major back in those days? He was incredible. I have a picture somewhere of my younger sisters with him. Yes, he made bad football a little more bearable.
UCGRAD4X
02-29-2020, 09:37 AM
Who was the drum major back in those days? He was incredible. I have a picture somewhere of my younger sisters with him. Yes, he made bad football a little more bearable.

Somebody Williams? :wacko:
paulxu
02-29-2020, 01:41 PM
Clarence Mitchell.
UCGRAD4X
02-29-2020, 05:40 PM
Clarence Mitchell.

Like I said, something Mitchell.