Teams that have success are often remembered for it. Even long after the competition ends, that success seems to follow them wherever they go.
Some, though, are remembered for the other side. Just like a memorable championship, one loss – under the right circumstances – can follow a team forever.
Fifty years ago today, a game like that was played. And the circumstances surrounding that meeting in Huntington, West Virginia, are unrivaled.
A year prior, on Nov. 14, 1970, nearly the entire Marshall University football team was killed when their chartered jet, returning home from a loss at East Carolina, crashed into a hillside just outside the Tri-State Airport near Huntington.