Marshall Thundering Herd - Marshall Thundering Herd Athletic Directors, Marshall Thundering Herd Basketball, Marshall Thundering Herd Football (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Marshall Thundering Herd Athletic Directors, Marshall Thundering Herd Basketball, Marshall Thundering Herd Football, Southern Airways Flight 932, We Are Marshall, Battle for the Bell, Friends of Coal Bowl, Joe Mcmullen, Chesapeake Energy Capital Classic, Marshall University: Ashes to Glory, Marco the Buffalo, Sam Hood Field. Excerpt: The Marshall Thundering Herd football team is an intercollegiate varsity sports program of Marshall University. The team represents the university as a member of the Conference USA Eastern division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, playing at the Division 1 Bowl Subdivision level. Marshall plays at Joan C. Edwards Stadium, which seats 38,019 and is expandable to 55,000. Marshall enjoys the best home field advantage in major college football. Marshall has an impressive 118-19 overall record at Joan C. Edwards stadium for a winning percentage of .866. No other Division 1 FBS program can match that. The University of Alabama ranks second with an .825 winning percentage at Bryant-Denny Stadium. The stadium, which opened for the 1991 season as Marshall University Stadium with a crowd of 33,133 for a 24-23 win over New Hampshire. On September 8, 2007, when the Thundering Herd played the in-state rival West Virginia Mountaineers in Huntington for the first time in 92 years, Marshall hosted a record crowd of 40,383. Edwards Stadium is the only Division I field named solely for a woman, and Mrs. Edwards husband, James F. Edwards, has his name on the actual playing field. South Carolina's Williams-Brice Stadium is named in part for a woman. Marshall is a football school, with a unique and rich tradition, winning conference titles in 1925, 1928, 1931, 1937, 1988, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2002... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=23132121