Topic: Parthenon: Thundering Herd to wear ‘75’ helmets to honor plane crash

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By MICHAEL CIRCLE
The Parthenon

Not since November 14, 1970, when a tragic plane crash took the lives of 75 people, has the Thundering Herd football team played a road game on the heartbreaking anniversary. The accident that claimed members of the 1970 team, coaching staff and boosters is remembered every year at the Memorial Fountain on Marshall University’s campus as the fountain is turned off for winter.

“The Memorial Fountain will be turned off Thursday morning-as it is for the winter annually -and the memorial service will be held as always, but some of us cannot be there, except in spirit,” Marshall athletic director Mike Hamrick said. “However, about 70 members of our 2013 team - while absent from our campus memorial ceremony - will honor those 75 crash victims in a way that will remind our country what happened near here on that sad night.”

The Thundering Herd will show its support for the memorial by wearing new helmets with the usual block “M” on one side and the number “75” on the other. The helmet will still sport the green stripe centered front to back.

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