November Ever After: A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph in the Wake of the 1970 Marshall Football Plane Crash


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The legacy of the Marshall players who perished transcends wins and losses. Their tragic deaths squashed the likelihood of a bloody race riot on campus. The evening of November 14, 1970 was damp and chilly with a steady drizzle and dense fog. Students at Marshall University had no idea that the night's horrific events would change their lives forever.

On this night, a plane crash wiped out most of the school's football team. Unless you were there, you could never fully comprehend the gravity of grief that engulfed Huntington, West Virginia, in the days following the worst aviation disaster in the history of American sports.

I know.

I was there.

I'll never forget.

It could have been me on that plane.

I played football at MU for two seasons. A year before the tragedy, I left the team for personal reasons. When the school began the daunting task of resurrecting its football program in the spring of '71, it was a no-brainer decision for me to rejoin the team and become part of the rebuilding process.

Media projects devoted to the plane crash provide well-deserved notoriety. Still, there are glaring omissions. Now, for the first time, former Marshall defensive back Craig T. Greenlee tells the real story - the whole story - about Thundering Herd football from back in the day.

Author: Craig T. Greenlee
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 07/27/2011
Pages: 168
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36d
ISBN13: 9781462004041
ISBN10: 1462004040
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Sports
- Sports & Recreation | History

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