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Northeastern Oklahoma A&M: 5 football players were killed in a head-on highway crash (1966). Marshall: 37 members died in an airplane crash (1970). Wichita State: most of the starting players and coaches, 31 in total, died in an airplane crash (1970). Cal Poly Mustangs football team: 16 players and 6 others died in an airplane crash (1960).
Wichita State discontinued varsity football after the 1986 season. [17] The accident was the first of two college-football charter aircraft to crash in 1970; six weeks later, Southern Airways Flight 932, carrying the Marshall University team, crashed in Huntington, West Virginia as the team returned from a game in North Carolina.
Coach dead and all players forced to quit professional football due to injuries in a train crash in Contigliano, on the Terni–Sulmona railway. Team was relegated and never managed to recover the second-tier Serie B league. 15 or more were killed. [24] 10 February 1949: Belgian bobsled team: Bobsled: Bobsled: Lake Placid, New York, United ...
The Wichita State Shockers football team was an NCAA Division I football program. The Shockers fielded a team from 1897 to 1986. The Shockers fielded a team from 1897 to 1986. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] They played home games at Cessna Stadium and were members of the Missouri Valley Conference when the program was discontinued in 1986.
The Wichita State Shockers football team was the college football program of Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas.The Shockers fielded a team from 1897 to 1986. [2] [3] They played their home games at Cessna Stadium and were members of the Missouri Valley Conference until the program was discontinued.
Head coach Ben Wilson, 14 players, and 16 others died on October 2 in the Wichita State University football team plane crash. Bob Seaman took over as head coach after the crash. The team's statistical leaders included Rick Baehr with 513 passing yards, Don Gilley with 290 rushing yards and 12 points scored, Bill Moore with 175 receiving yards.
Wichita State honors the memories of those who died each year at 9 a.m. on Oct. 2 by placing a wreath at Memorial '70, a monument bearing their names that it created for them on campus. (This ...
[1] [2] The team played its home games at Cessna Stadium in Wichita, Kansas. During the prior season, the team lost 14 of its players and its head coach in the Wichita State University football team plane crash. Several players injured in the crash, including Randy Jackson, returned to play for the 1971 team.