The plane crash of Nov. 14, 1970, will forever be a part of Marshall’s history. However, the tragedy did not just affect the community of Huntington, but communities across the nation.
On a warm Alabama afternoon, more than five decades after the plane crash that killed 75 Marshall players, coaches and supporters, the city of Tuscaloosa held a ceremony to gather and to remember four of its own young men that were among the 75 who died: Joe Hood, Freddy Wilson, Larry Sanders and Robert VanHorn, who are known now as the Tuscaloosa Four or in Tuscaloosa known as the Marshall Four.