On November 14, 1970, members of the Marshall University football team, coaches, staff, devoted fans, and the crew died in a plane crash. Their loss was recorded as a lasting remembrance to the university and the community, and they were to live on forever in the hearts of their families and friends. Those remembered included team members, staff members, alumni and friends, and crew members, among them Thomas Wayne Brown, Kevin Francis Gilmore, David Dearing Griffith Jr., Barry Winston Nash, Allen Gene Skeens, and Thomas Jonathan Zborill.