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| Conference | Independent | ||
| 1970 record | 3-6 | ||
| Head coach | Rick Tolley | ||
| Home stadium | Fairfield Stadium | ||
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The 1970 Marshall Thundering Herd football team represented the Marshall University in the 1970 NCAA Division I college football season.
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On November 14, 1970, Southern Airways Flight 932, which was chartered by the school to fly the Thundering Herd football team, coaches, and fans to Kinston, North Carolina for a game against the East Carolina University Pirates and back to Huntington, crashed on approach to Tri-State Airport after clipping trees just west of the runway and impacting nose-first into a hollow. All seventy-five people on board died. It was the worst single air tragedy in NCAA sports history.[1]
| Game | Date | Opponent | Result | Thundering Herd points | Opponents | Record |
| 1 | Sept. 19 | Morehead State | Win | 17 | 7 | 1-0 |
| 2 | Sept. 26 | @ Toledo | Loss | 3 | 52 | 1-1 |
| 3 | Oct. 3 | @ Xavier | Win | 31 | 14 | 2-1 |
| 4 | Oct. 10 | Miami, Ohio | Loss | 12 | 19 | 2-2 |
| 5 | Oct. 17 | Louisville | Loss | 14 | 16 | 2-3 |
| 6 | Oct. 24 | Western Michigan | Loss | 3 | 34 | 2-4 |
| 7 | Oct. 31 | @ Bowling Green State | Loss | 24 | 26 | 2-5 |
| 8 | Nov. 7 | Kent State | Win | 20 | 17 | 3-5 |
| 9 | Nov. 14 | @ East Carolina | Loss | 14 | 17 | 3-6 |
| 10 | Nov. 21 | @ Ohio U. | Cancelled |
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