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Wichita State discontinued varsity football after the 1986 season. The accident was the first of two college football charter aircraft to crash in 1970; six weeks later, Southern Airways Flight 932, carrying the Marshall University team, crashed in Huntington, West Virginia as the team returned from a game in North Carolina. Memorials
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Oct 1, 2020 · Wichita State players remember their 'second season' 50 years later (8:03) Wichita State was devastated by a tragic plane crash 50 years ago. It led to one of the more unlikely games in college ...
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- Chris Connelly, Reporter
Sep 14, 2020 · Athletics. Every year on Oct. 2, Wichita State University remembers the victims of the 1970 plane crash in Colorado, a tragedy that took the lives of 31 people on the trip to a football game in Utah the next day. The stories of the people affected by the crash and its aftermath serve as a tribute to all – teammates, friends and family.
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Sep 26, 2022 · A marker on I-70 near the Eisenhower Tunnel is close to the crash site in Colorado. Mike Kennedy remembers when the paper bearing the Associated Press bulletin came over the wire in the KMUW radio newsroom on that October day in 1970. A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team had crashed.
Oct 1, 2020 · FILE – In this Oct. 3, 1970, file photo, a charred Wichita State University football helmet is shown amid the wreckage of a plane that crashed in Silver Plume, Colo. (AP Photo/File) “To have ...
- Jeremy Hubbard
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Oct 1, 2015 · A: On Nov. 14, 1970, a plane carrying Marshall’s football team back crashed near the airport in Huntington, W.V., killing 75 people. The NTSB said rain and poor visibility contributed to the ...
Jul 4, 2020 · The charred wreckage of N464M lies on a Colorado mountainside some hours after the crash. (John Putt) On the 2nd of October 1970, a chartered airliner carrying the Wichita State University football team took a detour to give the young players a close-up view of the Rocky Mountains.
