Two fans and coach Bob Pruett want to turn pieces of the crashed airplane that decimated Marshall’s football program 32 years ago into a good-luck charm.
The two fans, Millard Robertson and Rick Griffin, have saved four pieces of the plane that went down Nov. 14, 1970, in Huntington, W.Va., killing 75.
Now they want to encase the fuselage pieces in glass and have them used in a ritual ceremony at Marshall home games, where Thundering Herd players would touch the pieces of the plane as they enter the field, similar to touching traditions at Notre Dame and Clemson.
“I don’t think there would be another event in all of college sports that would have the emotion or meaning this tradition could have,” said Pruett.
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