Marshall's Joan C. Edwards Stadium celebrating 25 years, 175 games

A crowd of 38,791 attended the Thundering Herd’s 2015 season opener against Purdue, the third-highest audience in the history of Joan C. Edwards Stadium.A date for the opening of this capsule has not been set. No word on whether the typo will be fixed.HUNTINGTON — Mike Hamrick was a long way from home, in his first job as athletic director and in the early stages of raising a family. It wasn’t an ideal time to drive to Marshall University.

But Hamrick gladly traveled 700 miles to see his alma mater finally play in a football stadium the school’s backers had fought so hard to build, one of which they could be proud.

Hamrick himself had played in the dungeon-esque Fairfield Stadium, a brick…