BARBOURSVILLE Ƶ Curt Nethercutt wanted to die.
Marshall football Top 50 Moment No. 3: Years of heartbreak, frustration and suffering ended Dec. 19, 1992, when Marshall defeated Youngstown State 31-28 in the NCAA Division I-AA national championship game.
HUNTINGTON Ƶ Michael PaytonƵs last drive at Marshall University could have been a Ƶsee, I told you soƵ moment.
Jim Donnan's tone almost was almost apologetic. "I have to take it, don't you think?" the great Marshall University football coach rhetorically asked me on the phone on Christmas night of 1995. Donnan was referring to the University of Georgia head coaching job.
Marshall University football is in its 50th year since the 1970 Marshall plane crash, which nearly ended the program. In this series, The Herald-Dispatch looks at the Top 50 moments in Thundering Herd football history since that tragedy on Nov. 14, 1970, which took the lives of all 75 passengers aboard Southern Airways Flight 932. Today, we look at No. 45: Marshall hosts Montana in the 1995 Division I-AA national championship game.
HUNTINGTON - Former Marshall University football player Jermaine Wiggins was a tight end with the New England Patriots and he said that's all he hopes to have in common with the late Aaron Hernandez.
HUNTINGTON -- Twenty-six years after it began, Michael Payton's college football career is finally finished.
HUNTINGTON Ƶ Twenty-six years after it began, Michael PaytonƵs college football career is finally finished.
HUNTINGTON Ƶ Marshall University fans and former football players reacted to FridayƵs verdict in the trial of former Thundering Herd coach Ji…
HUNTINGTON -- Marshall University fans and former football players reacted to Friday's verdict in the trial of former Thundering Herd coach Ji…